Shankar Karuppayah is a Senior Lecturer at the National Advanced IPv6 Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia since June 2016. Previously, he was attached to the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) / TU Darmstadt, Germany (2012-16) where he also obtained his PhD. Shankar received his M.Sc. (Software Systems Engineering) from a collaboration programme between RWTH Aachen, Germany and KMUTNB, Thailand in 2011 and his B.Sc. (Computer Sciences) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2009. His research interests encompass Internet of Things (IoT), IT and network security, network monitoring, and botnets.