M. Shamim Hossain, Highly Cited Researcher, SM'IEEE, Distinguished Member, ACM

M. Shamim Hossain is currently a professor with the Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also an adjunct professor with 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 more than 355 publications, including refereed journals (310+ SCI/ISI-indexed papers, 180+ IEEE/ACM Transactions/Journal papers, 25+ ESI Highly Cited Papers, 2 Hot Papers), conference papers, books, and book chapters. Recently, he co-edited a book on “Connected Health in Smart Cities”, published by Springer. He has served as 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. Currently, he is the Organizing Co-Chair of the Special Sessions with IEEE I2MTC 2022. He is also the Co-Chair of the 2nd IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Workshop on Edge-AI and IoT for Connected Health. He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2023. He is the Symposium Chair of Selected Areas in Communications (E-Health) with IEEE GLOBECOM 2024. Track Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE'24). Currently, he is the Chair of the Saudi Arabia Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Chapter. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award and 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), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), and Games for Health Journal. He served as a Lead Guest Editor of more than 2 dozen of Special Issues (SIs) including the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (currently JBHI), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL). He is a highly cited researcher and is listed as a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science™) Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science.