Long Cheng is a Full Professor in the School of Control and Computer Engineering at North China Electric Power University in Beijing. He was an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, and a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin. He also has worked at organizations such as Huawei Technologies Germany, IBM Research Dublin, TU Dresden and TU Eindhoven. He has published more than 80 papers in journals and conferences like TPDS, TON, TC, TSC, TASE, TCAD, TCC, TBD, TITS, TVLSI, TVT, TSMC, JPDC, IEEE Network, IEEE Systems Journal, HPCA, CIKM, ICPP and Euro-Par, etc. His research focuses on distributed systems, deep learning, cloud computing and process mining. Prof Cheng is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Co-Chair of Journal of Cloud Computing.