Internet of things and secure smart environments, 2021: ECIP title page (Uttam Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, USA) Acknowledgement (he is working as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Dr. Ghosh obtained his PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2013, and has Postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Fordham University, and Tennessee State University and has been awarded the 2018-2019 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow (JFTF) and also promoted to a Graduate Faculty position at Vanderbilt University)