Raouf Boutaba received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Sorbonne University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a University Chair Professor and the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Canada. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management from 2007 to 2010 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications from 2018 to 2021.