Ali Kashif Bashir received the B.S. degree from the University of Management and Technology, Pakistan, the M.S. degree from Ajou University, South Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Korea University, South Korea. He is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Computing, Mathematics, and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. He is a Distinguished Speaker of ACM. His past assignments include: Associate Professor of Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark; Osaka University, Japan; Nara National College of Technology, Japan; the National Fusion Research Institute, South Korea; Southern Power Company Ltd., South Korea, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea. He is author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles. He is supervising/co-supervising several graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students. His research interests include the Internet of Things, wireless networks, distributed systems, network/cyber security, cloud/network function virtualization, etc. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE FUTURE DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER. He is the Editor of several journals and also has served/serving as Guest Editor on several special issues in journals of IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He has served as the Chair (program, publicity, and track) and the Chair on several conferences and workshops. He has delivered several invited and keynote talks, and reviewed the technology leading articles for journals like IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, the IEEE Communication Magazine, the IEEE COMMUNICATION LETTERS, IEEE Internet of Things, and the IEICE journals, and conferences, such as the IEEE INFOCOM, the IEEE ICC, the IEEE Globecom, and the IEEE Cloud of Things.