Amir Taherkordi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Networks and Distributed Systems (ND) group at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. Amir received his PhD degree from the Informatics Department, UiO and his Ph.D. thesis was titled “Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Static to Adaptive Models”. He has experience from several RCN and EU projects and serves as a reviewer for many high-ranking conferences in the area of distributed systems. Amir’s research interests lie broadly in the area of distributed computing, software engineering, adaptation middleware, networked embedded systems (WSNs, IoT, and CPS), and Internet/Web engineering. He has recently received a prestigious grant from the Norwegian Research Council under the scheme of Young Research Talents to work on a novel IoT service computing model for future large-scale and dynamic Fog-Cloud systems.