• Biography

Dr. Hojjat Baghban is Assistant Profesor (UK Lecturer) in Computing and Information Technology at University of Derby, UK. He  served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Chang Gung University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly National Chiao Tung University), Taiwan. Dr. Baghban has 19 years of experience in Computer Science Lecturing and as a Senior Researcher, and  research project leading and Principal Investigator. He has worked on several research projects in the UK, Taiwan and  Canada. He has led and collaborated with multiple research groups in edge-cloud computing and smart network orchestration, focusing on the development of Next-Generation Networks. His recent research contributions include Artificial Intelligence solutions for optimizing Service Function Chains (SFCs) in 5G and distributed computing environments, such as the edge-cloud continuum. He has contributed to the design and development of edge capacity usage optimization and has proposed an Edge-AI-specific approach using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Additionally, Dr. Baghban has been investigating Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions in Edge Computing. His team has also worked on Edge Intelligence-enabled medical image classification to enhance data privacy in healthcare centers. Dr.Baghban is the Principal Investigator of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)-funded project titled "Reliable Service Chain Orchestration in a Multi-Domain Edge Intelligence Ecosystem." He serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing.  Dr. Baghban actively collaborates with several international technical communities and conferences. He is an organizing committee member of CCGrid 2026 & 2027, DataCom 2024 and FCP-2022 and was a member of the editorial team for DataCom 2022. Additionally, he is an Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) and serves as the Membership Director of IEEE TCCLD. 

Activities 

• Associate Editor: International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing.

• Publicity Co-chair, 27th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2027), will be held in USA. 

• Executive Committee: The IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud computing (TCCLD).

• Program Committee Member, 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering,  2nd Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum.

• Program Committee Member,  1st Workshop on Accelerated HPC in the Cloud-Edge Continuum, Italy, 2015.

• Publicity co-chair, 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2026), australia. 

• Publicity Chair, International Conferencne on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, 2022.

• Guest Editor: SI in Mobile Cloud Computing in Wireless Networks and IoT, A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220), section .Intelligent Sensors.