Muhammad Asif Naeem received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of Auckland and his thesis has been awarded a best thesis of the year. He has about 18 years of research, industry, and teaching experience. He is currently the Founder of the Data Science Research Group (DSRG), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and the Co-Director of the Intelligent Knowledge Mining and Analytics (IKMA) Laboratory, National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan. He is also a Professor with the School of Computing, NUCES. As an outcome of his research, he has published one book and more than 90 peer-reviewed journals articles and conference and workshop papers for publishers, including in IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and Springer. His recent research has been published in Information Systems (ranked A* in Computing Research and Education Association CORE), ICDM 2020 (ranked A* in CORE), and in Expert Systems with Applications (Q1 in Scimago Journal Ranking SJR). His research interests include data science, big data management, data mining and machine learning, active databases, and data warehousing. He has received a number of funding grants, including from the Callaghan Innovation Fund (CIF) and the Strategic Research Innovation Fund (SRIF). He has twice been the Finalist for the Vice Chancellor Emerging Research Award. He has received the Faculty Best Teaching and Emerging Researcher Awards. He has been invited as a keynote speaker to a number of conferences in his area. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access journal. He has organised the IEEE workshop IWDS, since 2013. He has served as a reviewer for well-known journals and conferences in his area.