Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad received his M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and 2011, respectively, and subsequently joined IBM as a Design Aids & Automation Engineering Professional at the Semiconductor Research and Development Center. In fall 2012, he joined Central Michigan University as a Computer Engineering Assistant Professor. In fall 2022, Dr. Abdelgawad was promoted to the rank of Professor. He is a senior member of the IEEE. His area of expertise is in Internet of Things (IoT), distributed computing for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), data fusion techniques for WSN, low-power embedded systems, digital signal processing, robotics, RFID, localization, VLSI, and FPGA design. He has published 2 books and more than 130 articles in related journals and conferences. Dr. Abdelgawad has served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences, including IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, and IEEE Transactions on I&M, Springer, Elsevier, IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE SAS, and IEEE MWSCAS. He severed in the organizing committees of IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICIP, IEEE SiPS, IEEE MWSCAS, and GIoTS.