Hadi Otrok holds an associate professor position in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, an affiliate associate professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and an affiliate associate professor in the electrical department at Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS), Montreal, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in ECE from Concordia University. He is a senior member at IEEE, and associate editor at: IEEE TNSM, Ad-hoc networks (Elsevier), and IEEE Network. He served as associate editor at IEEE communications letters. He co-chaired several committees at various IEEE conferences. His research interests include: Blockchain, reinforcement learning, Federated Learning, crowd sensing and sourcing, ad hoc networks, and cloud and fog security.