Professor Raouf Boutaba is an internationally recognized authority and leading researcher in the management of communication networks and services.  He is particularly known for his pioneering contributions to automated and policy-based network management, which opened new exciting possibilities toward self-managing networks and autonomic computing, and for his ground breaking work on network virtualization as a foundation for the future Internet architecture.  His research work is published, with high impact, in top-tier IEEE journals and conferences, and received several Best Paper Awards and other national and international recognitions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Engineering Institute of Canada.