Nasif Fahmid Prangon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, USA, and a researcher under Dr. Jie Wu at the Center for Networked Computing. He completed his B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2018. Nasif's research interests are distributed computing, cloud networks, and intelligent cloud networking. His work is focused on innovative solutions for enhanced efficiency and scalability of cloud-based systems in networked computing environments.

Dr. Jie Wu is the Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University and Director of the Center for Networked Computing (CNC). He served as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences from 2009 to 2016 and as Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs from 2015 to 2017. Before joining Temple, he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and a Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. His research interests include mobile computing, wireless networks, routing protocols, network trust and security, distributed algorithms, applied machine learning, and cloud computing. Dr. Wu publishes regularly in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. He serves on editorial boards such as IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He has been general chair or co-chair for conferences like IEEE DCOSS’09, IEEE ICDCS’13, ICPP’16, IEEE CNS’16, WiOpt’21, ICDCN’22, IEEE IPDPS'23, and ACM MobiHoc'23 and program chair or co-chair for IEEE MASS’04, IEEE INFOCOM’11, CCF CNCC’13, and ICCCN’20. He was an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Dr. Wu is a Fellow of AAAS and IEEE, recipient of the 2011 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).