Rao Naveed Bin Rais

Organization:	Ajman Univesity
Affiliation:	ALAC, Fellowship Program, GNSO, RSSAC
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Region:	Asia
Country:	Pakistan
Email:	naveedbinrais[at]gmail.com
Website:	Ajman University
LinkedIn:	Rao Naveed Bin Rais
Featured in the ICANN 52 - Singapore playing card deck

Rao Naveed Bin Rais is working as Associate Professor in Computer Engineering Department at College of Information Technology, Ajman University, Ajman since August 2016. He has been previously employed at Capital University of Science & Technology, in Islamabad, and at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. He completed Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Systems from National University of Science & Technoloy, Pakistan in 2002. Later, he received MS in Networks and Distributed Systems and PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France.

He has been an ICANN Fellow in different capacities as ICANN Fellow, ICANN Fellow Coach, ICANN Fellowship Lead, Community Mentor, and as a member of Community Onboarding Pilot Program. He was first selected as an ICANN Fellow for ICANN50 in London held in June 2014. Since then, Rais has participated in a number of ICANN meetings including, ICANN52 in Singapore, ICANN53 in Buenos Aires, ICANN54 in Dublin, ICANN55 in Marrakech, ICANN 56 in Helsinki, ICANN59 in Johannesburg, ICANN60 in Abu Dhabi and ICANN62 in Panama City. At ICANN, Rais is a member of NCUC/NCSG, associted with APRALO, and is closely working with the SSR team at ICANN for DNSSEC related issues. Moreover, he is also a member of RSSAC Caucus at ICANN. Since February, 2018, Rais has been selected as a member of Second Security, Stability and Resilience Review Team (SSR2-RT) at ICANN as a representative of gNSO.

Rais has previously served as President of Internet Society Islamabad Chapter and a board member of PK-NOG. He has also been a fellow of Internet Society for Internet Engineering Task Force for IETF92 and IETF100.