Dr. Asrar Ul Haque is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kent State University, Ohio, USA, where his dissertation addressed bounded-wait communication for systems with distributed and autonomous components. His research interests span distributed algorithms and distributed computing, wireless and sensor networks, combinatorial optimization, and intelligent systems. He has contributed to research projects and publications on distributed minimum spanning tree construction and maintenance, energy-efficient data aggregation in power-limited sensor networks, peer-to-peer overlay and multicast network design, network optimization, and applications of artificial intelligence in agriculture and the Internet of Things.