Dr. Hamid Saadatfar is currently an associate professor of Computer Engineering Department at University of Birjand. He has received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Ferdowsi university of Mashhad in 2007, 2009 and 2014, respectively. His research interests include:

• Parallel and Distributed Processing (Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing),
• Data Mining and Machine Learning,
• Big Data Analysis (Data Mining Methods for Big Data)
• and Power-aware Computing.