Mohammed Riyadh ABDMEZIEM is currently an associate professor at ESI Algiers  (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique). Previously, he served as a postdoctoral fellow as well as a lecturer at University of Lorraine (Polytech Nancy), he was  within Loria laboratory and member of Coast team for several years. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sciences and Technology of Algiers (USTHB, Algeria) in 2016. He has been  qualified for "Maitre de conférences"  positions by CNU (France) since 2019, and received his HDR in 2022. His research activities are focused on security, key management protocols, and distributed artificial intelligence. He managed to publish several papers at an international level in conference proceedings, books, and journals.