Dr. Ahmed Al-Dubai is Reader in the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University since 2005. In 2001, he received a PhD studentship (Merit Competition-Award) from the Dept. Computing Science, University of Glasgow and was awarded his PhD in 2004. He has been working on the area of group communications, parallel and distributed computing and high-performance networks for more than 12 years. His research has been supported by EU, Universities UK and the Royal Society. His findings have been published in world leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, Information Sciences, Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, the International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Systems Architecture (JSA), Elsevier and Int. Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking; and in prestigious international conferences including IEEE IPDPS, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ISCC, ICPP, IEEE ICPADS, IEEE IPCCC and ACM-SAC.  Ahmed has been the recipient of several academic awards and recognitions. He has been a member of several editorial boards of scholarly journals. He has been the Guest Editor for a number of special issues in scholarly journals.