Ying Mao is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University in New York City. In addition, he serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2016 and is currently a Fordham-IBM research fellow. His research interests include advanced computing systems, service virtualization, systems deep learning, edge intelligence, and cloud-edge-CPS applications. He has published over 40 research articles in leading international conferences and journals, such as TPDS, TCC, TC, IEEE Systems Journal, MLSys, ICNP and ICPP. His research projects have been funded by various agencies, such as NSF, Google Research, IBM, IonQ and Microsoft Research.