**About the Editors**

### **Sheraz Aslam**

Sheraz Aslam received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan, in 2015, and a M.S. degree in Computer Science with a specialization in energy optimization in the smart grid from the COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2018. He also worked as a Research Associate with Dr. Nadeem Javaid during his M.S. period at the same University. Mr. Sheraz recently finished his Ph.D in Computer Engineering and Informatics from Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, under the supervision of Dr. Herodotos Herodotou. Currently, Dr. Sheraz is working as a Post-doc Researcher at DICL Research Lab., Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), Limassol, Cyprus, where he is also a part of an European Union funded research project named as aerOS. He also working as senior lecturer (part-time) at CTL Eurocollege, Limassol, Cyprus. Previously, he worked on several EU funded research projects, i.e., STEAM and MARI-Sense. He has authored more than 80 research publications in ISI-indexed international journals and conferences, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, and Electric Power System Research. Mr. Sheraz also served as a TPC member and invited reviewer of international journals and conferences. His research interests include data analytics, generative adversarial networks, wireless networks, smart grid, and cloud computing. He is constantly looking for collaboration opportunities with professors and students from different universities around the globe.

#### **Herodotos Herodotou**

Herodotos Herodotou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer and Informatics Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, where he is the Scientific Manager of the Data Intensive Computing Research Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in May 2012. His PhD thesis received the honors "SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention" and "Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Computer Science at Duke". His research interests include large-scale data processing systems, database systems, and storage systems. In particular, his work focuses on the simplification of the use, manageability, and automatic tuning of centralized as well as distributed large-scale data analysis systems. In addition, he is interested in the application of database and machine learning techniques in other domains such as energy, environment, maritime, tourism, and social computing. In the past, Dr. Herodotou worked as a Senior Research SDE in the "Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX)" team of Microsoft Research. He has been engaged in various research projects related to cloud computing, covering compute, storage, and networking layers in global data centers. His professional experience includes additional research positions at Yahoo! Labs and Aster Data, as well as programming jobs at Microsoft and RWD Technologies.

#### **Nouman Ashraf**

Nouman Ashraf received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Frederick University, Cyprus, under the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Program. He has worked with Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland, the TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and with the University of Cyprus. Currently, he is working with Technological University Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the application of control theory for management of emerging networks with applications in the Internet of Things, 5G and beyond communication networks, electric vehicles, metamaterial-based beam steering, wireless sensor networks, smart grid, networks resilience, and power load modeling.
