Hamed Vahdat-Nejad is currently an Associate Professor at the computer engineering department of the University of Birjand. He was a Visiting Professor at the Superior University in Lahore in the summer of 2018, and at the Daffodil International University in Dhaka in the summer of 2017. He received his Ph.D. from the computer engineering department of the University of Isfahan in 2012, his master's degree from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2007, and his bachelor’s degree from the Sharif University of Technology in 2004. He was a research scholar with the Middleware Laboratory at the Sapienza University of Rome in 2011-2012. Currently, his research is focused on smart cities and IoT, crowd-sourcing, and text processing. He has (co)published more than 50 papers in conferences and journals, and leads the Pervasive and Cloud Computing Lab at the University of Birjand. He has served as the chairman of the 1st and 2nd International Workshops on Context-Aware Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing Environments, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th International Workshops on Pervasive and Context-Aware Middleware, and the 1st conference on healthcare computing systems and technologies. He has served as a TPC member for many conferences. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for Elsevier's Computers and Electrical Engineering journal.