Dr. Mankodiya is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA. He pursued his postdoctoral research at Intel Science & Technology Center affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Luebeck, Germany, with an emphasis on wearable health monitoring. He holds B.E. (Saurashtra University, India) and M.Sc. (University of Luebeck, Germany) degrees in Biomedical Engineering (BME). He has published a book on wearable health monitoring that serves as a hands-on guide to program high-end embedded processors for healthcare applications. His embedded design of a wearable ECG system based upon smart textiles has earned him the SYSTEX student award 2010, University of Ghent, Belgium. He is the director of Wearable Biosensing Lab that is funded by NSF, NIH, VentureWell, and RI Foundation. He organizes URI Hack-a-Thons every year to help next generations cultivate entrepreneurial and design thinking in the areas of Internet of Things and Smart Healthcare. (Weblink: http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/kunalm/index.html)