Moustafa is a postdoc working under the guidance of Professor David Culler. He obtained his Ph.D. from Rutgers, where he was a three-time recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship and the recipient of the Rutgers ECE Academic Achievement Award. His dissertation, which focused on the on-demand aggregation of distributed services to enable a distributed software-defined environment, was nominated to the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Moustafa’s current research is at the intersection of Systems and Machine Learning, where he is exploring the use of Reinforcement Learning for resource management of cloud/edge infrastructure. He is also exploring the application of ML/RL techniques to the Internet of Things (IoT) as part of the XBOS-DR project, which aims to control smart buildings to react to Demand Response (DR) events in the electrical grid. Finally, Moustafa is exploring the use of decentralized authentication to provide secure Content Delivery Networks (CDN).