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M. Shamim Hossain is a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada in 2009. His research interests include cloud networking, smart environment (smart city, smart health), AI, deep learning, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), multimedia for health care, and multimedia big data. He has authored and co-authored over 400 publications, including refereed journals, conference papers, books, and book chapters. . He has been the co-chair, general chair, workshop chair, publication chair, and TPC in several IEEE and ACM conferences. He is the chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Health with the IEEE ComSoc eHealth Technical Committee. He is the Symposium Chair of Selected Areas in Communications (E-Health) with IEEE GLOBECOM 2024. He is the Track Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2024, 2025). He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2023. Currently, he is the Chair of the Saudi Arabia Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Chapter. He was the recipient of several awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award, The 2024 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the 2016 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, the 2019 King Saud University Scientific Excellence Award (Research Quality), and the Research in Excellence Award from the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), King Saud University (3 times in a row). He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), . He has served as a Lead Guest Editor for more than two dozen Special Issues (SIs), including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (currently JBHI), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL). He is the Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science – 2022 and 2023 (Web of Science™).