Zhi Zhou received B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in 2012, 2014, and 2017, respectively, all from the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. He is currently a research fellow in the School of Data and Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. In 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at University of Göttingen. He was nominated for the 2019 CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, the sole recipient of the 2018 ACM Wuhan & Hubei Computer Society Doctoral Dissertation Award, and a recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE UIC 2018. His research interests include edge computing, cloud computing, and distributed systems.