Mourade Azrour received his PhD from Faculty of sciences and Techniques, Moulay Ismail University, Errachidia, Morocco. He received his MS in computer and distributed systems from Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zouhr University, Agadir, Morocco in 2014. Mourade currently works as computer sciences professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Moulay Ismail University. His research interests include Authentication protocol, Computer Security, Internet of things, Smart systems. Mourade is scientific committee member of numerous international conferences. He is also a reviewer of various scientific journals such as International Journal of Cloud Computing and International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF).
Azeem Irshad received master's degree from Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Then he completed his PhD from International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has authored more than 64 international journal and conference publications, including 33 SCI-E journal publications. His research work has been cited over 646 times with 12h-index and 14 i-10-index. He received Top Peer-Reviewer Award from Publons in 2018 with 126 verified reviews. He has served as a reviewer for more than 40 reputed journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE TII, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE TVT, IEEE IAS, Computer Networks, Information Sciences, CAEE, Cluster Computing, AIHC, JNCA and FGCS, notably. His research interests include strengthening of authenticated key agreements in Cloud-IoT, smart grid, pervasive edge computing, CPS, 5G networks, WSN, Ad hoc Networks, e-health clouds, SIP and multi-server architectures.
Rajasekhar Chaganti worked as a security engineer at Expediagroup Inc in security incident and response team. Currently, he is actively involved in security research and working towards PhD degree from the University of Cumberlands. Prior to joining Expedia, He served as a security analyst in procore technologies and possess knowledge on SIEM, vulnerability management, DNS, and endpoint security. He is holding the industry certifications such as AWS Solution Architect, Certified Ethical Hacker, and CCNA cyberops covering various aspects of security. He was a research assistant at UTSA performing software-defined networking security research and received MS in computer science focusing on computer and Information security from UTSA in 2018. His research interests are in machine learning/AI for security applications, network security, threat detection in IoT, cloud and blockchain environments and social engineering scams. Prior to joining UTSA, he worked as a patent research analyst for Stellarix consulting services in Jaipur, India. He performed patent research related to patent novelty, invalidation, and landscape projects in electronics and computer science domain focusing on cybersecurity, machine learning, IOT security and cloud computing. He has been a reviewer for IEEE Access, Information and computer security, springer cybersecurity Journal, wireless communications and mobile computing, journal of cybersecurity and mobility, cybersecurity skills journal and volunteered for organizing cybersecurity symposium for smart cities and other security initiatives.
