Author: Massimo Villari

Chintan Bhatt is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU). He is a member of IEEE, EAI, ACM, CSI, AIRCC, and IAENG (International Association of Engineers). His areas of interest include Internet of Things, datamining, networking, mobile computing, big data, and software engineering. Chintan has more than 10 years of teaching experience and research experience, having good teaching and research interests. He has more than 80 publications on the Internet of Things, computer vision, and software engineering, among which many publications are Scopus and Wo S indexed. Chintan has been awarded with many CSI National Awards and a few CHARUSAT Research Paper Awards. Yulei Wu is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computing and Mathematics and B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) degree in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2010 and 2006, respectively. His main research interests include networking, Internet of Things, edge intelligence, privacy and trust, and AI and ethics. Dr. Wu serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the ACM, and a Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy). Saad Harous obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA in 1991. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research in three different countries: USA, Oman and UAE. He is currently a Professor at the College of Computing and Informatics, in University of Sharjah. His teaching interests include programming, data structures, design and analysis of algorithms, operating systems and networks. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, P2P delivery architectures, wireless networks, VANET, and the use of computers in education and processing Arabic language. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He is an IEEE senior member.  Massimo Villari is Full Professor in Computer Science at University of Messina (Italy). He is actively working as IT Security and Distributed Systems Analyst in Cloud Computing, virtualization and Storage and one of the creators of Osmotic Computing Paradigm. For the EU Projects “RESERVOIR” he leaded the IT security activities of the whole project. For the EU Project “VISION-CLOUD”and H2020-BEACON, he covered the role of architectural designer for Uni ME. He was Scientific ICT Responsible in the EU Project frontier Cities, the Accelerator of FIWARE on Smart Cities – Smart Mobility. He is strongly involved in EU Future Internet initiatives, specifically Cloud Computing and Security in Distributed Systems. He is co-author of more of 190 scientific publications and patents in Cloud Computing (Cloud Federation), Distributed Systems, Wireless Network, Network Security, Cloud Security and Cloud and Io Ts, and recently in Osmotic Computing. He was General Chair of ESOCC 2015 and IEEE-ISCC 2016. Since 2011 he is a Fellow of IARIA, recognized as a Cloud Computing Expert, and since 2011 he is also involved in the activities of the FIArch, the EU Working Group on Future Internet Architecture. In 2014 was recognized by an independent assessment (IEEE Cloud Computing Transaction, Issue April 2014) as one of World-Wide active scientific researchers, top 27 classification, in Cloud Computing Area. He is General Chair of IEEE-ICFEC 2019 and Workshop Co-Chair in IEEE-CIC 2018. He will be General Chair of IEEE CCGRID in 2021 in Messina (Sicily). Currently he is the Head of Computer Science School and Rector delegate on ICT for whole University of Messina. He also covers the role of academic consultant for the City Council of Messina in the context of Smart City.