Dr. Nageswara Lalam is an Optical Scientist at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), US Department of Energy where he involves in the development of fiber optic sensor systems for energy infrastructure monitoring applications, and PI for sub-task “Distributed fiber interrogator development and demonstration” under Natural Gas Infrastructure FWP project. His current research interests include distributed fiber optic sensors, advanced data analytics, non-linear fiber optics, radio-over-fiber communications, fiber laser systems, and interferometric fiber sensing. He was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh, and an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at NETL, Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2021. He serves as an academic editor for the Journal of Sensors (Hindawi), and a guest editor for MDPI Sensors. Dr. Lalam received his Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from the Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, and an MSc degree in Optical Communications Engineering from the University of Greenwich, London, UK.