Balamurugan Balusamy is a professor at the School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India. His research focuses on blockchain and IoT. He has published 30 technology books and over 150 journal and conference papers and book chapters. He serves on the advisory committee for several start-ups and forums and does consultancy work for the industry on Industrial IoT. He has given over 175 talks at events and symposiums. He is a member of several associations including IEEE and ACM. He holds a PhD degree on "Investigations of cloud computing access control techniques" from VIT University, Vellore, India.