Dr. Nawaf Almoosa is a faculty member at the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE, with a joint appointment as the Acting Director of the Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC). His research interests cover high-performance heterogeneous computing, and distributed optimization and control with applications to computing, telecommunication, and robotic systems. He is a member of the Smart Infrastructure Team at EBTIC, where he is currently working on network synchronization, heterogeneous radio access, and software-defined networking. Dr. Almoosa is a graduate of Khalifa University and Georgia Institute of Technology.