Carlos Becker Westphall, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

BIO: Carlos Becker Westphall received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in computer science from the Université Toulouse III–Paul Sabatier, France, in 1991.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Informatics and Statistics, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the Leader of the Networks and Management Laboratory.

Hamed Taherdoost, University of Canada West, Canada

BIO: Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and R&D professional. He is founder of the Hamta Group | Hamta Business Corporation, and Associate Professor at University Canada West. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academia sectors. He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in development of several projects in different industries; healthcare, transportation, residential, oil and gas and IT. Apart from industry, he has been a university lecturer in three different parts of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Westcliff University, mentor at Futurpreneur Canada, Advisory Board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, Senior Technical Consultant at CI Solutions Ltd, Innotek Consulting Ltd & Quark Minded Technology Inc and Chair of Research and Scholarly Activities Committee at University Canada West.

He is a certified cybersecurity technologist and a senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, & IEDRC, Fellow Member of ISAC, WGM of IFIP TC11, member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC and AASHE. Hamed has been an active multidisciplinary researcher and R&D specialist involved in several academic and industrial research projects. Currently, he is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects, including studying innovation in information technology, blockchain, and cybersecurity, people’s behavior, and technology acceptance.

Abid Yahya, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana

BIO: Abid Yahya (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering and in telecommunication from the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in wireless and mobile systems from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He is currently with the Botswana International University of Science and Technology, which has employed him because of his practical knowledge and educational experience to aid them in many consulting jobs for giant enterprises. He is a Professional Engineer certified by the Botswana Engineers Registration Board (ERB). In addition to having more than 140 publications in renowned journals, conferences, and books, he has received numerous awards and grants from multiple funding sources. Additionally, he has taught countless master’s and Ph.D. degree students. Universities all over the country and around the world study his books.

Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Taylor’s University, Malaysia

BIO: Professor Dr Noor Zaman Jhanjhi is currently working as a Professor  | Programme Director - of Postgraduate Research Programmes [Computing] |Director of the Center for Smart Society 5.0 [CSS5], and Cluster Head for the Cybersecurity cluster at the School of Computer Science Faculty of Innovation and Technology, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Highlights of the research profile summary are as follows,

Highlights of Profile Summary

1.  World's Top 2% Scientist for two consecutive years 2022, and 2023

2. Vice Chancellor’s Award Taylor’s University Most Cited Researcher for 2023

3. Outstanding Faculty Member nominated by MDEC, Malaysia for the year 2022

3. Top Researcher/Scientist in Malaysia for the field of Computer Science based on SciVal Scopus data 2022

4. 24 years of Teaching, Research and development Experience in the fields of Cybersecurity, Security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, Wireless Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad hoc Networks, Machine Learning and Software Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, ILMA University, British University Vietnam.

Aniruddha Bhattacharjya, BCBRBAB INTERCONTINENTAL TRADING SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, IEEE Senior Member and ACM Senior member, India

BIO: Aniruddha Bhattacharjya is a PhD Alumni of Tsinghua University. He was a PhD scholar (Chinese Government Scholarship (CGS) holder) in Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China under supervision of Prof. Xing Li (Present mentor) [ Late Prof. Wang Jing was his mentor]. This PhD work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB316006), and National S&T Major Project (2015ZX03002010-002) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61631013). He got full travel and conference funding from Tsinghua University's School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) and the Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Ministry of Education, P.R.China (No.KFKT- 2014101) and National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB316000) to present his paper in Cambridge University, UK. He got full funding for his project from the Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Ministry of Education, P.R.China (No.KFKT- 2014101) also. Department URL https://www.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1039/1186.htm His research interests are Cryptography, Information security, Applications of cryptography and IoT and CPS securities etc. He got best paper award in ACM ICC 2016, in Cambridge University, U.K. He has published 48 above International conferences and journal papers and book chapters. He has 16 years above teaching and research experiences. He has a Chinese Innovation patent granted as on date with Tsinghua University's affiliation and as per the protocol of the university. 

He is also Senior Member of IEEE Communication Society and Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society. From 2010 he is working with 500 and above International conferences voluntarily of IEEE, ACM, and other renowned publishers'conferences. This year he is working as reviewer with IEEE ICC'24 - IoTSN Symposium, IEEE WCNC 2024 - Track 1, and IEEE WCNC 2024 - Track 3 and others. He is Guest Editor for Several SCI indexed Journals.  He is Reviewer for prestigious SCI journals like:

1. ACM Computing Surveys 

2. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

3. IT Professional (IEEE Computer Society)

4. IEEE Access

5. IEEE Sensors Journal

6. Future Generation Computer Systems

7. Information Sciences

8. Computers & Security

9. Cluster Computing

10. International Journal of Computers and Applications (IJCA)

11. MPDI Journals like - I.Drones , II.Sustainability III.Sensors IV.Processes V.Energies VI.Applied Sciences VII.Symmetry VIII.Electronics IX.Networks X.Cryptography XI.Future Internet XII.Economics XII.Telecom etc.

Lu Leng, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

BIO: Professor Lu Leng previously held the position of a professor in the Department of Data Science and Technology at the School of Software, Nanchang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. During his tenure (November 2021), he served as a member of the academic committee and the party branch secretary of the graduate team in Computer Vision and Image Processing. Additionally, he served as a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and over 40 international SCI journals. Professor Lu has organized international seminars focused on safety biometric technology and intelligent media technology for public safety, assuming the role of conference chairman. He is also a member of various societies, including IEEE, ACM, and CCF. His research interests span biometric recognition and authentication (palm print, palm vein, face, etc.), biometric template protection, and computer vision.