Rao Naveed Bin Rais is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering and IT, Ajman University. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering with a specialization in Networks and Distributed Systems from the University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. Before that, he received his BE in Computer Systems from the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan, in 2002. He is also a Professional Member of the Pakistan Engineering Council, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of the Internet Society, USA. His research interests include network protocols and architectures, information-centric and software-defined networks, machine learning algorithms, cloud computing, network virtualization, and internet naming and addressing issues.