Waqar Ali Aziz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology and a Master’s degree in the same field from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Pakistan. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. He has over five years of research experience on European-funded projects. He specializes in data-driven machine learning solutions and is passionate about developing energy-efficient machine learning frameworks for time series analysis and classification tasks. Waqar is currently working as a Research Associate at the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence.