Dr. Basit Qureshi is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA in 2000, his master’s degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in 2002, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Bradford, UK in 2011. He has been the chair and co-chair of the Symposium on Data Mining Applications, now the International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning (CDMA). He is a senior member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and the ACM. He specializes in Cloud computing with a focus on performance issues in energy awareness and green computing, integrating Cloud and Internet-of-things applications in the context of smart cities.