Junaid Shuja is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Southeast Missouri State University. He previously held academic and research positions at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia; the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES); and COMSATS University, Pakistan. He has also served as an adjunct lecturer at UCSI University, Malaysia. Dr. Shuja earned his Ph.D. from University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2017, under the prestigious BrightSpark scholarship. His doctoral research centered on the execution and offloading of SIMD instructions on heterogeneous mobile and cloud platforms, and he received the “Graduate on Time” award in recognition of his timely completion. Dr. Shuja’s research interests include applying machine learning techniques in edge computing, advancing Large Language Models (LLMs) for low-resource languages and exploring Blockchain technologies. He has won research grants from funder agencies in Pakistan, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. He has authored over 70 research articles in international journals and conferences and currently serves as an Associate Editor for Telecommunication Systems and Cluster Computing.