Muhammad Azhar Iqbal completed his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems in 2012 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. Later he worked in different universities on different positions. Prior to his current tenure as Assistant Professor at the University of Leeds, Dr. Azhar held significant roles (as Teaching Fellow) at Lancaster University (LU, United Kingdom), (as Associate Professor) at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU, China), and (as Associate Professor) at Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST, Pakistan). He has received senior membership IEEE and fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. He has authored several international conferences/journal publications and Leading Author of two books on the topic of Network Simulations and Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Azhar's current research interest is at the cutting edge of agriculture digitalization, and he is dedicated to developing artificial intelligence-based solutions aimed at improving sustainable crop/animal production systems.