​Dr Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh received the Gold Medal from the Rector COMSATS, Abbottabad, Pakistan for securing the 1st position in MCS in August 2006. Dr Tahir has received his PhD degree in Computer and Information Sciences from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia in 2012. He is working at Cardiff Met as a Senior Lecturer. He has worked as an Associate Professor in the faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. In the past he has completed a LTE HICI project with the collaboration of Stanford. He has also directed graduate and undergraduate projects. His areas of research interests include Bluetooth network, Wireless sensor network (WSN), WBANs, Cyber security, IoT, Smart technology, Software Engineering, Mobile ad hoc network (MANET), and Computer networks. He works mainly on wireless network protocol designs optimizing the performance of networks. He has been involved in project related physical protocol design for Bluetooth scatternet. His research is financially supported by several grants. He has authored a number of high quality research papers in refereed international conferences and journals. He also serves as a reviewer for Springer, Elsevier, and IEEE: different high impact factor journals.  He has been involved in more than 20 conferences and workshops in various capacities, such as chair and technical program committee member. He has successfully completed more than 25 research projects.