Ismail Lotfi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer & Communication Engineering at Khalifa University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2023. Prior to that, he received his master's degree in emerging networks, security, and multimedia from Oran-1 University, Algeria, in 2017 and his B.Eng. degree from the Oran University of Science and Technology, Algeria, in 2015. During their master’s studies, he was an exchange student at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, working on wireless network security. His main research interests focused on applying auction theory, contract theory, and MARL as enablers for efficient resource management and optimization of communication networks. He is an active reviewer in several IEEE journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.