Muhammad Imran is an Associate Professor in the College of Applied Computer Science at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received a Ph.D. in information technology from the University Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, in 2011. His research interest includes IoT, mobile and wireless networks, big data analytics, cloud computing, and information security. He has published more than 250 research articles in peer-reviewed, well-recognized international conferences and journals. He has also served as an Editor in Chief for European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology, and is currently serving as an associate editor for top ranked international journals, such as IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, Future Generation Computer Systems, and IEEE Access. He serves as a guest editor for approximately two dozen special issues in journals, such as IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Access, and Computer Networks. He has been consecutively awarded Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE Access in 2018 and 2019, besides many others.