Atef Abdrabou received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, he joined the Electrical & Communication Engineering Department at UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he is now a Full Professor. Dr. Abdrabou has been a technical program committee member and session chair at many IEEE international conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. His research interests include smart grid communication, vehicular communication, self-organizing wireless networks, radio resource allocation, Internet of Things/Machine-to-Machine communication, and machine learning applications in wireless communication.