Tariq Umer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in computer science from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in communication systems from the School of Computing & Communication, Lancaster University, U.K., in 2012. He served in the IT education sector in Pakistan for more than 13 years. Since January 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor with the CS Department, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore. His research interests include vehicular ad-hoc networks, the Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, and telecommunication network design. He served in the TPC for various international conferences. He is currently an Editor of Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is serving as a Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Access, Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Sensor Wireless Networks, Wireless Networks (Springer) journal, and the Journal of Communications and Networks. He is an active member of the Pakistan Computer Society and Internet Society Pakistan.