Yousef-Awwad Daraghmi is currently an Associate Professor with the Computer Systems Engineering Department at Palestine Technical University Kadoorie. His research focuses on Software Engineering, Blockchain, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). He has published several papers about traffic prediction, ITS crowdsourcing and VANETs in highly distinguished journals and conferences. He received the “Best Paper Award” from an international conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Telecommunications in 2012. He serves as a Technical Program Committee member for the International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Telecommunications, International Conference on Signal Processing, International Conference on Electric Vehicles and Vehicle Engineering, and the Asia–Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium. He is a reviewer of highly distinguished journals: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, IEEE communications magazine, IEEE network magazine and others. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao Tung University–Taiwan in January 2014, his Master’s degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chiao Tung University–Taiwan in 2007, and his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from An-Najah National University–Palestine in 2002.