Ali Malik is an Assistant Lecturer in computer engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He holds a Ph.D. degree in computing from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, in 2019. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at FOCAS Research Institute, Technological University Dublin, in areas related to data centers, monitoring and software-defined networking. His current research interests include software-defined networks, vehicular networks, traffic engineering, machine learning, cybersecurity, microgrids, and power networks.