Adnan Mahmood Author

Adnan Mahmood possesses a PhD in Computer Science and is a Lecturer in Computing – IoT and Networking at the School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Before moving to Macquarie University, Adnan has spent a considerable number of years in both the academic and research settings of the Republic of Ireland, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China. His research interests include, but are not limited to, the Internet of Things (primarily, the Internet of Vehicles), Trust Management, Software-Defined Networking, and the Next Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.

Quan Z. (Michael) Sheng is a full Professor and Head of the School of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Michael holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. His research interests include Service Computing, Distributed Computing, Internet Technologies, and the Internet of Things. He is a recipient of AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award on IoT (2019), ARC Future Fellowship (2014), Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution (2012), and the Microsoft Fellowship (2003). Michael is ranked by the Microsoft Academic as one of the Most Impactful Author in Services Computing (i.e., top 5 all time).

Wei Emma Zhang is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Australia and a Researcher in the promising paradigms of the Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Text Mining. Wei obtained her PhD from The University of Adelaide and spent half year in IBM Research, Australia as a full-time Intern. She further spent two and a half years in Macquarie University, Sydney as a Postdoctoral Researcher before joining The University of Adelaide.

Sira Yongchareon is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He received his PhD and MIT degrees from the Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interest is in Ubiquitous / Pervasive Computing, including AI / Machine Learning and Data Management for the Internet of Things, Ambient Intelligence, Human Activity Recognition, Wireless Sensing, and Mobile / Edge computing in Intelligent Environments.