Albert Zomaya is the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking in the School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney. Dr. Zomaya published more than 500 scientific papers and articles and is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He served as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2011-2014) and was elected recently as a Founding Editor in Chief for the newly established IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. Dr. Zomaya also serves as an associate editor for more than 20 leading journals. He is Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, and IET. Sherif Sakr is currently a professor of computer and information science in the Health Informatics department at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. He is also affiliated with the University of New South Wales and DATA61/CSIRO. He received his PhD degree in Computer and Information Science from Konstanz University, Germany in 2007. Dr. Sakr held visiting appointments in several academic and research institutes including Microsoft Research (2011), Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (2012), University of Zurich (2016) and TU Dresden (2016). His current research is revolved around advanced big data management and processing technologies. In addition to his dozens of peer-reviewed articles in reputable conferences and journals, he is the author and editor of several valuable books in this domain.
