Usman Tariq is an associate professor of ‘Pervasive Computing’ at the Department of Management Information Systems, CoBA, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Usman has delivered over 30 invited and keynote talks at the International Conferences in the USA, France, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, India, and China, such as ICCCN. His research includes the internet of things, network communication, cyber security, distributed systems, machine learning, pattern recognition, predictive analytics, and smart infrastructures. He has published over 180 research articles. Most of his works are published in the top ranked ISI indexed Journals.