Ahmed Barnawi is currently a professor in the Faculty of Computing and IT at King Abdulaziz University. He is the managing director of the KAU Cloud Computing and Big-Data Research Group. He acquired his Ph.D. from the University of Bradford, UK, in 2005 and his M.Sc. from UMIST, UK, in 2001. His research interests include wireless communications, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and robotics. He has published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.