Rajan Shankaran is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University. He leads the 'Security, Communications, and Networks Research Group'. He obtained his PhD in Wireless and Mobile communications from the Western Sydney University (Sydney, Australia). He has previously held an appointment at Western Sydney University. His research focuses on Internetworking security and Quality of service with a special focus on Body Area Networks and Medical Implants, Cognitive Radio, Internet of Things and Vehicular Networks and D2D Communications. He has supervised several Master by Research (MRES) and PhD students to successful completion in these areas. He has published in reputed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular communications and IEEE Sensors as well as in several prestigious conferences. He has also acted as a reviewer for many SCI journals. He has also served in Technical Program Committees for several conferences in computer networking and security.