Ricardo Lent is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Ricardo Palma. His prior experience includes work as Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Principal Network Engineer for industry and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include many areas of networking and distributed systems, with emphasis on cognitive networks, mobile and pervasive communications: mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, green computing, and cloud computing. Dr. Lent's research has been published in more than 100 journal and proceeding papers in these areas. He regularly teaches networking and computing courses both at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Dr. Lent is a recipient of a NASA‘s Early Career Faculty (research grant) Award.