Dr. Hamid Arabnia received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Kent, Canterbury, in 1987. He has been with the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, since 1987, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus in computer science. He is a fellow and an Advisor of the Center of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence, and Organized Crime Research. He has authored extensively in journals and refereed conference proceedings. His research interests include parallel and distributed processing techniques and algorithms, supercomputing, big data analytics (in the context of scalable HPC), imaging science (image processing, computer vision, and computer graphics), other compute-intensive problems, methodologies that promote cross-disciplinary education, health informatics, medical imaging, and security. His most recent activities include studying ways to promote legislation that would prevent cyberstalking, cyber harassment, and cyberbullying. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer).