Samee U. Khan received a B.S. degree from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan, in May 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA, in August 2007. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA. He is the founding director of bi-institutional and multi-departmental NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory (GCC Lab). The GCC Lab currently hosts 10 faculty members and over 50 research students. Moreover, he is Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at the North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA. Furthermore, he also is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.

Prof. Khan's research expertise encompasses topics, such as (a) Sustainable Computing: High and low level {data, task, and communications} schedulers, workflow managers, and application-level dynamic fine-tuning. (b) Social Networking: Disaster management, search and rescue, classroom instructional use, and malicious behavior detection. (c) Robust Backbone Networks for Cyberinfrastructures: Resource provisioning, system recovery from catastrophic anomalies, and inter-layer/inter-domain protocols. (d) Reliability: Robustness, trust, and security. In the aforementioned areas, he has published over 100 papers. His work has received external support in excess of $1.5M from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, US Department of State, and Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Prof. Khan is an associate editor of: (a) Cluster Computing, (b) International Journal of Communication Systems, and (c) Security and Communication Networks. He also serves on the editorial boards of: (a) Informatica, (b) Information Systems, (c) Interdisciplinary Sciences, (d) International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, (e) International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, (f) International Journal of Green Computing, (g) International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (h) Journal of Information Technology Research, and (i) Multiagent and Grid Systems. Moreover, he is serving (or has served) as an editor for more than seven special issues related to sustainable computing and communications. Furthermore, he also has organized more than five conferences, tracks, and sessions on topics related to sustainable computing and communications.

Prof. Khan is serving (or has served) as general chair, program committee chair, organizing committee chair, and advisory board member for more than five conferences, such as ACM/IEEE/IFIP International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), International Conference on Metaheuristics and Naturally Inspired Computing (META), International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (ICCSB), IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid and Home (SGH), IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), ACM International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), and European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS). Moreover, he is serving (or has served) on the technical program committees for more than 35 conferences, such as IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), and IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM).

Prof. Khan serves as the chair of the steering committee of the IEEE Technical Area of Green Computing. He also is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Self-Organized Distributed and Pervasive Systems. Moreover, he also is a member of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science, the Game Theory Society, the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Furthermore, he is a domain expert for: (a) Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France; (b) The Research Council (TRC), Oman; (c) Science Foundations (NWO and STW), Netherlands.

Prof. Khan is the recipient of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Young International Scientist Fellowship, 2012, the Researcher of the Year Award, College of Engineering and Architecture, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, 2011, the Best Paper Award of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Hangzhou, China, December 2010, the John Steven Schuchman Memorial Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA, 2007, and the Nortel Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA, 2008. He is the 2007 inductee of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Computer Science Honors Society. For more information, please visit: http://sameekhan.org.