Rashedur M. Rahman is working as a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Calgary, Canada and Masters from University of Manitoba, Canada in 2007 and 2003 respectively. He has authored more than 120 peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings in the area of parallel, distributed, grid and cloud computing, knowledge and data engineering. His current research interest is in data mining particularly on financial, medical and educational data, data replication on grid, cloud load characterization, optimization of cloud resource placements and computational finance. He has been serving in the editorial board of a number of journals in the knowledge and data engineering filed. He also served as reviewer of couple of journals published by Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. He also serves as an organizing committee member of different international conferences organized by IEEE and ACM.