Prof. Yassine Maleh (IEEE Senior Member)

Dr Maleh Yassine Maleh is an associate professor of cybersecurity and IT governance at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco, since 2019. He is the founding chair of IEEE Consultant Network Morocco and founding president of the African Research Center of Information Technology & Cybersecurity. He is a former CISO at the National Port Agency between 2012-2019. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the International Association of Engineers IAENG and The Machine Intelligence Research Labs. Dr Maleh has made contributions in the fields of information security and privacy, Internet of things security, wireless and constrained networks security. His research interests include information security and privacy, Internet of things, networks security, information system, and IT governance. He has published over than 200 papers (book chapters, international journals, and conferences/workshops), 40 edited books, and 5 authored books. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP, IF: 0.8), and the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access, since 2019 (Impact Factor 4.098), the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), and the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP). He is a series editor of Advances in Cybersecurity Management, by CRC Taylor & Francis. He was also a guest editor for many special issues with prestigious journals (ieee transactions on industrial informatics, EEE Engineering Management Review, Sensors, Big Data Journal). He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees and as a reviewer of numerous international conferences and journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Sensor Journal, ICT Express, and Springer Cluster Computing. He was the General chair and publication chair of many international conferences (BCCA 2019, MLBDACP 19, ICI2C’21, ICACNGC 2022, CCSET'22, IEEE ISC2 2022, ISGTA'24, etc...) . He received Publons Top 1% reviewer award for the years 2018 and 2019.

Prof. Mustapha Belaissaoui

Prof. Mustapha Belaissaoui is a Professor of Computer Science at Hassan 1st University, Settat, Morocco. He serves as the Deputy Director of the National School of Business and Management (ENCG) Settat and is the Head of the Master Management Information System and Communication program at the same institution. Since 2024, he has also been the Director of the Digitalization Hub at Hassan 1st University.

Prof. Belaissaoui obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Mohammed V University in Rabat. His research interests encompass Combinatorial Optimization, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and books, which have been featured in esteemed, peer-reviewed journals and symposia.

His technical skills include proficiency in various programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, and C, with a particular emphasis on machine learning algorithms and techniques. Prof. Belaissaoui has a keen interest in applying machine learning to healthcare, focusing on early disease diagnosis, medical image processing, and biosignal processing.

Prof. Justin Zhang (IEEE Senior Member) 

Justin Zhang is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Department of Management at University of North Florida (UNF). He is also the Program Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at UNF. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration on Management Science and Information Systems from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His research interests include economics of information systems, knowledge management, electronic business, business process management, information security, and social networking. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global Information Management, an ABET program evaluator, and an IEEE senior member.