Dr. Minxian Xu is currently an Associate Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the BSc degree in 2012 and the MSc degree in 2015, both in software engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in 2019. His research interests include resource scheduling and optimization in cloud computing. He has co-authored 40+ peer-reviewed papers published in prominent international journals and conferences, such as ACM CSUR, ACM TOIT, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TCC, IEEE TASE, IEEE TGCN, JPDC, JCST, JSS and ICSOC. His Ph.D. Thesis was awarded the 2019 IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. More information can be found at: minxianxu.info.