Mehdi SheikhalishahiMehdi Sheikhalishahi has 12 years of experience in Web technology, network security, and distributed computing technologies. Mehdi is currently a research fellow in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of Calabria in Italy afer completing his PhD studies and PhD thesis on energy efficient computing at the same department. In this position, he is doing research on cloud, green computing, and application of cloud computing in futuristic “Internet of Things.” In addition, he is currently collaborating with the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG), which is an international group with participants mostly from the United States, to drive implementation of energy conservation measures and energy efficient design in high performance computing (HPC). Also, Mehdi is a collaborator in an HPC cloud experiment, i.e., The Uber-Cloud Experiment. This experiment aims at exploring remote computing services for the future. While cloud computing in general is moving fast, there are still some hurdles to overcome when it comes to more sophisticated services such as HPC and engineering simulations in the cloud. During his PhD studies, he has conducted research on challenges of energy efficiency in cloud computing infrastructures, in particular focusing on resource management and scheduling components of a cloud system. He spent his abroad research at Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group, Complutense University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain. He was a research visitor at the cloud group of the same department from September, 2010 until February, 2011. Under supervision of Prof. Ignacio M. Llorente, he carried out research on challenges of energy optimization in cloud computing infrastructures. In particular, he developed efficient energy aware consolidation policies. Prior to that, he gained experience and conducted research on HPC and grid computing during his Master studies. Previously, he worked in the network security field, developing security systems such as firewalls and Public Key Infrastructure products. In addition, he was involved in Web development of e-Commerce systems such as online store during the first stage of his career. Mehdi is a co-author of several scientific papers on grid, cloud computing, and energy efficiency, and he was reviewer of several conferences and journals such as Journal of Optimization Methods and Software , andA Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) on Many Task Computing . He taught several computer science courses (programming and HPC programming) in Iran. Mehdi is a founding member and technical advisor to a spin-off company on emerging computing technologies in Italy. All in all, Mehdi has high-profile global roles in network, computing, and information security architecture, engineering, operations, product management, and marketing with a passion for cloud computing. 307 Read More Read Less