Florin Pop is a full Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania. His main research interests are in large-scale distributed systems, adaptive and autonomous methods, multi-criteria optimization methods, Cloud middle-ware tools and application development, prediction methods, self-organizing systems, applications for Big Data and IoT systems, Smart Cities, climate, and climate-neutral governance. Florin Pop is an editor of Future Generation Computer Systems. He is a senior researcher at the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics—ICI Bucharest and a member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. He is an IEEE Senior Member.