Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, Editor-in-Chief, Discover Internet-of-Things. http://ranger.uta.edu/~iahmad/Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A., in 1992 and 1987, respectively; and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1985. Prior to joining UTA, he was an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has authored 260-plus publications that include books, papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, related to software for supercomputing systems, parallel optimization algorithms, digital video compression and analysis, assistive technologies and sustainable computing. Professor Ahmad has received numerous international research awards, including five best research paper awards at leading conferences and top-tier journals. Dr. Ahmad’s research, with career-wide funding exceeding $13 million, is sponsored by government agencies and several companies. His research work, according to the Google Scholar, is widely cited with over 20,000 authors in computer science referencing to his research papers. Aside from being the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, he has served as an editor of six others journals, chaired over 20 computer-related conferences, and delivered more than 150 talks. A senior visiting scientist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, and a visiting lecturer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, he also holds honorary professorships at several universities around the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s new Journal Discover Internet-of-Things, with an editorial board of researchers from around the world. Dr. Ahmad is a Fellow of the IEEE, the largest professional organization in the world.Dr. Ahmad's current research is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Education (GAANN Project), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Adobe Inc., Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. Air Force Research Labs. Currently, he is the general chair of ICDIS. He served on the editorial board of seven professional journals..