Nishant Saurabh is a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck in 2021 and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Klagenfurt University, Austria. His research interest includes hybrid distributed systems, cloud and edge computing, performance modelling, optimization, and observability. He has published over 25 publications in journal and conferences like TPDS, JPDC, IPDPS, CCGrid, QSW, IST, ICFEC, and Euro-Par etc. He is an associate editor for Springer’s JoCCASA journal, editorial board and steering committee member for Springer’s book series and conference on frontiers of AI. He also served as scientific coordinator and WP leader in several EU and Austrian projects and is currently a member of IBM’s working committee on HPC-Quantum integration.