Albert Y. Zomaya is Peter Nicol Russell Chair Professor of Computing, Director of the Centre for Distributed and High-Performance Computing, and Australian Research Council professorial fellow in the School of Computer Science, the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published over 30 book titles and is chief editor for the IET Book Series on Big Data. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, USA), fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and IET chartered engineer (CEng). He received the 2021 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Research Innovation Award. He holds a PhD from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Sheffield University, UK.