Muhammad Arif is an Associate Professor at Superior University Lahore, Pakistan. His research interests include artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, cyberspace security, data mining, image processing, medical image processing, privacy, security, and e-learning. Currently, he is working on the privacy and security of vehicular networks. Previously, he has been a lecturer at the University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan. He completed masters and bachelor degrees in Pakistan. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Sargodha, Pakistan, in 2011. He obtained his MS degree in Computer Science from COMSATS Islamabad in 2013 in Pakistan. He completed his PhD degree at Guangzhou University, China. He is the author of more than 50 SCIE journal publications, more than 20 conference publications, and a number of Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including iSCI 2019. He has two SCI highly cited papers. He has more than 1200 citations, according to Google Scholar. His H-Index is 15 and his i10-Index is 30. He is an Editorial board member of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE). He has participated in many international conferences as a Program committee member, as a Session Chair, on Technical Program Committees, or on International Program Committees. He was the program chair of SmartITC 2020 and 2021.