Before joining CACS, he was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from the School of Computing at Queen’s University in Canada. Dr. Elgazzar received the prestigious NSERC PDF award (2015–2017) from the Canadian Government and the 2014 distinguished re-search award from Queen’s University. He also received sever-al recognition and best paper award at top international venues. His research interests span the areas of mobile and ubiquitous computing, context-aware systems, Internet of Things, and elastic networking paradigm. Dr. Elgazzar is currently leading a team to create the next generation of IoT open stack, get-ting every connected device onboard to bring the future even closer.