Prof. Zhengguo Sheng is with the Department of Engineering and Design at University of Sussex since 2015 and Dean of Sussex AI Joint Institute at ZJSU since 2023. He was a reader, senior lecturer and lecturer at the same university between 2015-2024. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. with distinction at Imperial College London in 2011 and 2007, respectively, and his B.Sc. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2006. From 2013 to 2014, he was a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. From 2011 to 2013, he was with France Telecom Orange Labs as the senior researcher and project manager in M2M/IoT. During 2009, he also worked as a research intern with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA, and U.S. Army Research Labs. His current research interests cover connected vehicles, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud/edge computing. He has published over 170 journal and conference papers, 6 books, 1 patent and 2 standards contribution in OneM2M and OMA LWM2M, and has served as liaison in IEEE VTS Board of Governor; technical committee member for ELSEVIER COMCOM; editorial board of IEEE RFID, Access and AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER). His current research works are funded by H2020, Industry, EPSRC, Innovate UK, Royal Society and University of Sussex. He is also the receipt of Royal Society Kan Tong Po International Fellowship 2020, Emerging research award 2017 from University of Sussex. Senior Member of IEEE, IET, Fellow of of The Higher Education Academy (HEA).