Dr. Junaid Shuja is currently serving as a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, since March 2023. His role involves teaching, research supervision, grant acquisition, and commercialization, with a focus on machine learning applications in edge networks. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at FAST-NUCES, Karachi, from August 2022 to January 2023, where he taught AWS cloud computing and advanced algorithms and supervised six postgraduate students. From April 2017 to July 2022, Dr. Shuja was an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at COMSATS Islamabad, handling undergraduate and graduate teaching, project supervision, and administrative duties. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, from February 2020 to December 2020, where he developed research proposals and secured funding for COVID-19 contact tracing applications. Earlier in his career, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, from October 2013 to September 2016, supporting research under the BrightSpark Program. He also held positions as a Lecturer and Research Associate at CIIT Abbottabad, Pakistan, and as an Information Security Analyst at NIMIS, Islamabad. Additionally, he worked as a Freelance Web Developer on Odesk from August 2009 to January 2013.