Springer Handbook of Data Engineering

Fatos Xhafa is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. After receiving his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at BarcelonaTech in 1998, he held various tenured and visiting professorship positions. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (2019/2020), Visiting Professor at the Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2009/2010), and a Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2004/2005). He was a Distinguished Guest Professor at Hubei University of Technology, China, for the duration of three years (2016-2019). 
Prof. Xhafa has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters, edited books, and proceedings in the field (H-index 64). He has been awarded teaching and research merits by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education and by IEEE conferences and best paper awards. He has an extensive editorial service of journals and book volumes. He is founder of the journal Internet of Things; Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems (Scopus and Clarivate WoS Science Citation Index) and of the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (Emerging Sources Citation Index), and Board Member of several other indexed international journals.
Fatos Xhafa is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, and Man & Cybernetics Society and Founder Member of Emerging Technical Subcommittee of Internet of Things. His research interests include IoT and Cloud-to-thing continuum computing, massive data processing and collective intelligence, optimization, security and trustworthy computing, and machine learning, among others.