**Meet the editor**

Dr. Nawaz Mohamudally graduated in telecommunications from the University of Science and Technology of Lille in France and is currently an associate professor and chairman of the Research Degrees Committee at the University of Technology, Mauritius, where he had been the head of the School of Software Engineering and Business Informatics and the School of Innovative Technologies

and Engineering. He was the chairman of the Internet Management Committee, an advisory unit to the Mauritian authority from 2010 to 2014. His core research areas are mobile and pervasive computing and data science. He has successfully supervised 6 PhD students and published 150+ refereed research articles and papers, co-authored 1 book and authored 6 book chapters. Dr Mohamudally was awarded the "Best Professor in Industrial Systems Engineering" by Africa Education Leadership Award in 2015.
