Jaafar Gaber received his Ph.D. degree in 1998 from University of Lille I, France in Computer Science and engineering. He is currently researcher at the FEMTO-ST institute (UMR CNRS 6174) and associate Professor HDR of computer science and computer engineering at Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France (UTBM). Prior to joining UTBM, he was a research scientist at CSI Institute in George Mason University in Fairfax (Virginia, USA). His research interests include modern distributed systems, including IoT, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, high-performance computing, reconfigurable, embedded computing and distributed/parallel algorithms. He has served as external expert for research and technology evaluation outside EU or as expert for EU Cost action proposals evaluation. His research has been frequently supported by European grants within EU FP6 and EU FP7 and industry. He is also involved in European EACEA agency projects. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.