Adnan Rashid (IEEE and Internet Society Member) is currently working as an Assistant Professor and doing research in the area of telesurgery in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, Since March-2023. He received a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication and Telematics from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence – School of Engineering, Florence, Italy. He received a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science & Technology (CUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in December 2015. He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) from the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology (FUUAST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009. He was a visiting faculty member from 2017‑to‑2018 in the Department of Computer Science at the PMAS‑Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His research activities focused on the security and resilience of IoT Systems, Low and Lossy Networks (LLN), Cloud and Fog Networks, IPv6, Networking protocols and Security, Telesurgery. He is actively involved in ippm Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group (WG) and doing research to standardize IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics Version 2 (PDMv2) Destination Option header. He is constantly involved as Technical Program Committee member of many prestigious conferences. He is collaborating with the open‑source ns‑3 simulator maintainers for the development of the IETF 6LoWPAN‑ND protocol.