Awaneesh Kumar Yadav is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India. His research interests encompass a variety of topics, including Network Security, 5G/6G Security, IoT and Cloud Security, Metaverse, and Post Quantum. He completed his M.Tech in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India, in 2019. Additionally, he has served as a visiting researcher at Oulu University in Oulu, Finland, and the VUB University in Brussels, Belgium. Awaneesh Kumar Yadav has received the Young Scientist Travel Grant for attending the IEEE MetaCom conference 2023 from SERB, as well as Travel Grants for IEEE ICC 22 and IEEE ICC 23. Moreover, he has been honored with the prestigious Mitacs GRE Fellowship to conduct research in Canada. Furthermore, Awaneesh Kumar Yadav actively contributes as a reviewer for several esteemed journals and conferences, including IEEE ITS, IEEE TSC, Wireless Networks, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Security and Privacy Journal, Journal of Cyber Security, IEEE GlobeCom, IEEE ICC, and IEEE ELEXCOM. He has also published research papers in reputable journals such as IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TVT, IEEE TSUSC, Computer Networks, and Journal of Supercomputing. Additionally, he has presented several papers in flagship conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE MASS, IEEE CCNC, etc.