It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Jun Luo, Dr. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Dr. Sherali Zeadally, Dr. Guan Gui, and Dr. Houbing Song, who are the Editorial Board Members of Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903) have been listed for the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Dr. Jun Luo currently works at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, where he is an Assistant Professor. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. Dr. Jun Luo researches mobile and distributed computing, deep learning and computer vision, and applied operations research. His current focuses lie in 1) contact-free sensing driven by deep learning, 2) visible light communication and sensing, 3) indoor and outdoor localization and tracking, and 4) application of machine learning to mobile computing and networking.

Dr. Enrique Herrera-Viedma is the Vice President for publications in the Systems, Man, and Cybernetic Society and an Associate Editor of several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport System, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, and Knowledge-Based Systems. His h-index is 81 on the Web of Science, with more than 23 000 citations received, and 97 on Google Scholar, with more than 37 000 citations received. He has been identified as one of the world’s most influential researchers by the Shanghai Center and Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics in both computer science and engineering for the years 2014–2020.

Dr. Sherali Zeadally is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018–2020), as well as an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2017–2020). He has co-authored or authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, and over 235 of these publications have appeared in peer-reviewed, high-impact international journals/magazines. Furthermore, he has edited or co-authored 7 books, which have been published by well-known publishers (Springer, CRC press, and IET). Dr. Zeadally is the Editor-in-Chief of a peer-reviewed international journal, and has acted as an Editorial Board Member or Associate Editor for over 30 peer-reviewed international journals. At the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, he has been recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

Dr. Guan Gui was recognized as one of the 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in wireless communications. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Physical Communication, Wireless Networks, IEEE Access, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Security and Communication Networks, IEICE Communications Express, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and Journal of Communications.

Dr. Houbing Song is a senior member of ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, the faculty advisor of ERAU chapter of ACM’s Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), and a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Song was a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom-2019), the Best Paper Award from the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII 2019), the Best Paper Award from the 19th IEEE/AIAA Integrated Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance technologies (ICNS 2019) Conference, the Best Paper Award from the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020), and the Best Paper Award from the 15th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2020).