Dr. Josu Bilbao

Dr. Josu Bilbao obtained the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country, the M.Sc. degree in Communications and Control from the University of the Basque Country, and obtained the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Navarra.

He is currently a senior researcher and leads the Cybersecure IoT research group at IK4-Ikerlan (+20 researchers and 7 PhD). IK4-Ikerlan is a private research center leader in technology transference and part of MONDRAGON Corporation (one of the largest Spanish business groups). Dr. Bilbao is responsible for the development of the strategy and implementation of M2M system and architectures for Smart Mobility and transportation sectors. He has been the project manager of multiple M2M and IoT products oriented to the monitoring and supervision of industrial goods. Dr. Bilbao is member of multiple international technical committees for the evaluation of scientific works and peer-reviewed papers in the field of reliable communications (IEEE Trans. on comms., IEEE Comm. Magazine, IMETI, ETFA, IEEE Globecom, JSCI, Smart Grids IoT, etc.). Dr. Bilbao has been a visiting scientist at MIT and received the best paper award at IEEE ISPLC. He plays an active role in different standardization committees (IEEE, HANA, IETF, etc.), and his current research interests span several fields such as the safety and security areas for the IoT and IIoT, reliable communications, Network Coding, QoS, real-time cyber-physical systems integration in the IoT, Cloud and Fog-based architectures, and 5G among others.