I am a Lecturer in Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, UK and a visiting researcher at Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany. Before that, I worked as a Postdoctoral researcher in the Chair of High Performance Computing, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (HSU/UniBwH)/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany. My PhD was received from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter, UK, on offloading decision making strategies in mobile edge computing, under the support of the International Excellence Scholarship. Before that, I graduated from Beihang University, in Beijing, China. I hold a M.Sc. degree in Control Science & Engineering, and a B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering.