Prof. Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif, Menoufia University, Egypt, Email: ahmedabdellatif@ieee.org
Prof. Yassine Maleh, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco, Email: yassine.maleh@ieee.org
Prof. Kevin Curran, Ulster University, UK, Email: kj.curran@ulster.ac.uk
Prof. Patrick Siarry, University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, France, Email: siarry@u-pec.fr
Prof. Ahmed Abd El-Latif (B.Sc. with honor rank in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2005, (M.Sc in Computer Science in 2010), and Ph. D. in Computer Science & Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China in 2013. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at Menoufia University, Egypt and School of Information Technology and Computer Science, Nile University, Egypt. He is author and co-author of more than indexed 140 papers. He is a referee of many referred international repute journals and conferences. He received many awards, State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences 2016, Arab Republic of Egypt; the best Ph.D. student award from Harbin Institute of Technology, China 2013; Young scientific award, Menoufia University, Egypt 2014. He is a fellow at Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt. Dr. Abd El-Latif is an associate editor in several Scopus Journals and leading many Special issues in SCI journals..
Prof. Yassine Maleh is an associate professor of cybersecurity and IT governance at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. 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 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 50 papers (book chapters, international journals, and conferences/workshops), 8 edited books, and 3 authored books. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, and the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access (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 of a special issue on Recent Advances on Cyber Security and Privacy for Cloud-of-Things of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), Volume 10, Issue 3, July–September 2019. 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 Publicity chair of BCCA 2019 and the General Chair of the MLBDACP 19 symposium and ICI2C’21 Conference. He received Publon Top 1% reviewer award for the years 2018 and 2019.
Prof. Kevin Curran is a Professor of Cyber Security, Executive Co-Director of the Legal innovation Centre and group leader of the Ambient Intelligence & Web Technologies Research Group at Ulster University. He is also a senior member of the IEEE. Prof Curran is globally recognized as a security Top Influencer "IFSEC Global influencers in security and fire 2020" in category Security thought leadership. He was ranked #2. Prof Curran is perhaps most well-known for his work on Internet security & location positioning evidenced by over 800 published works. His expertise has been acknowledged by invitations to present his work at international conferences, overseas universities and research laboratories. He is a regular contributor on TV & radio and in trade and consumer IT magazines with 1000+ interviews in recent years. He is currently the recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship and is an IEEE Technical Expert for Internet Security. Professor Curran has performed external panel duties for various Higher Education Institutions and public bodies such as OFCOM and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Prof. Patrick Siarry was born in France in 1952. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and optimization from University Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1986, and the Doctorate of Sciences (Habilitation) degree in computer science and optimization from University Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 1994.,He was first involved in the development of analog and digital models of nuclear power plants with Electricité de France, Paris. Since 1995, he has been a Professor of Automatics and Informatics with Université Paris-Est Créteil, Créteil, France. His main research interests include computer-aided design of electronic circuits, cognitive intelligence, and the applications of new stochastic global optimization heuristics to various engineering fields, also including the fitting of process models to experimental data, the learning of fuzzy rule bases, and of neural networks.