Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Director of the Center for Convergence and Emerging Network Technologies (CCENT). He has a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and from the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He has been a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh as well as an instructor professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. His research interests are in the areas of new wireless markets and technologies and also in security for future data environments.