José Santos completed his doctoral studies at Ghent University in April 2022, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the IDLab Research Group at Ghent University - imec, Belgium. His research interests include Cloud and Fog Computing, IoT and Reinforcement Learning. He has authored over 40 scientific publications and received several awards, including the imec Ph.D. Excellence Award (2022), the Best Dissertation Award at NOMS 2023, and the FWO IBM Innovation Award (2023).