Dr. Asad Masood Khattak has over 17 years of industry and academia experience in various capacities, such as Webmaster, Developer, Team Leader, Principal Investigator, Assistant Chair, Graduate Program Coordinator, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. He has multicultural teaching experience and has taught in Pakistan, China, South Korea, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). His areas of research interests include Data Curation and Representation, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computational Intelligence, social media analysis, e & m-Healthcare, Smart Cities, and Secure Computing. Taking bold, decisive, and definitive actions to solve problems, building strategic alliances, and working in collaborative teams are his strengths. He has experience of leading research teams of over 40 members in over four countries. He has served as an Assistant Chair and currently serving as Graduate Program Coordinator at the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University. He is open to explore more and learn more that has mutual benefits for him, his partners, and his institution. He has delivered various keynote speeches, invited talks, invited lectures, and short courses. He has authored over 180 publications (book, book chapters, journal publications, and conference publications). He has a US Patents registered and a Korean Patent. He is Senior Member of IEEE and appointed as an ACM Distinguish Speaker.