Dr. Fakhri Khan is Associate Professor at the Department of Information & Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Prior to joining KFUPM, he worked for more than 10 years in different capacities such as Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Coordinator BCS, Coordinator BSSE and Coordinator BS-Data Science at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. (with Distinction) in Computer Science in 2010 from the Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria and Post-doc from Vienna University of Technology (2017). His research interests include IoT, data analytics, scientific workflows provenance, energy efficiency in WSN, multimedia technologies and nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms. He has published several research papers in various reputed peer-reviewed internationally recognized journals and has supervised numerous MS and PhD students