Advisory Board and Editors Security & Privacy
Anwitaman Datta
Anwitaman did his Phd from EPFL Switzerland. Currently, he works in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NTU Singapore.
Peter Denning
Distinguished professor of computer science at Naval Postgraduate School. Past president of ACM. Past editor in chief of Communications of ACM. Currently editor of ACM Ubiquity. Author of ten books, most recent Great Principles of Computing (MIT Press 2015). Author of over four hundred scientific papers and articles.
Mariagrazia Fugini
Research interests in data and systems security, information system development, services for Public Administrations, Risk and Adaptive Cyber security, and services co-production. Involved in National and International Research Projects on e-Government, Web-based Information Systems, Risk and Adaptive Security, Security of Smart Environments and Service Platforms for Social Care and e-Health.
Tarek Gaber
Tarek Gaber is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Salford (UK) and a Full Professor of Computer Science at Suez Canal University (Egypt). He has over two decades of academic and research experience across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), secure systems, and Safe AI. His work focuses on developing resilient AI models, secure digital infrastructures, and innovative applications for industry and public sector transformation. Dr. Gaber has authored over 100 scholarly publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and edited volumes — with more than 40 published in Q1 journals. He has led or co-led research projects exceeding £6 million in funding, supported by Innovate UK, UKRI, Research England, and UKAEA. His research excellence has earned him recognition among Stanford University’s top 2% of scientists globally. He has served as Programme Leader for the MSc Cyber Security programme at Salford, contributed to several Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), and engaged in interdisciplinary projects with SMEs to deploy secure and explainable AI solutions. Dr. Gaber is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a member of IEEE, and frequently serves as a keynote speaker, journal reviewer, and editorial board member in his field.
Marieke Huisman
Marieke Huisman is a professor in Software Reliability, leading the Formal Methods and Tools group at the Univ. of Twente, Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from the Univ. of Nijmegen, in the area of semantics and verification of sequential Java programs. She worked 8 years at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France on verification of concurrent programs. In 2008 she joined the UT. She leads the development of the VerCors program verifier for concurrent software. For this work, she has received the support of several personal grants, such as an ERC Starting Grant, and a Vici grant from the Dutch Science Organisation. She has been chairing Versen, the Dutch association of software researchers, and works hard to improve the overall visibility of software research.
Cynthia E Irvine
Cynthia Irvine is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research (CISR) at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her research centers on the design and construction of secure, highly trustworthy systems, cyber systems and operations. In 2015 she was inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame.
Bilal Khalid
Dr. Bilal Khalid received a Ph.D. in Industrial Business Administration from KMITL Business School, Bangkok, and a master’s in International Business Management from Stamford International University, Bangkok. Dr. Khalid's research interests include leadership and negotiations, digital transformations, gamification, eLearning, blockchain, big data, decarbonization, green entrepreneurial orientation, corporate social responsibility, sustainable management practices, and management of information technology. Dr. Bilal Khalid also serves as an academic editor at Journal of Computer Networks and Communication, Education Research International, and a reviewer for multiple international journals.
Muhammad Khurram Khan
Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan is a Professor of Cybersecurity at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founding members of the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) and has served as Manager R&D from March 2009 until March 2012.
His research areas of interest are cybersecurity, AI security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, cloud computing security, digital authentication, multimedia security, cyber policy, and technological innovation management.
Zhiyi Li
Dr. Zhiyi Li received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2017. He received an M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2014 and a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China) in 2011. From August 2017 to May 2019, he was a senior research associate at Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology. Since June 2019, he has been with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University(Hangzhou, China) as a research professor. His research interests lie in the application of state-of-the-art optimization and control techniques in smart grid design, operation and management with a focus on cyber-physical security. He has already authored/co-authored over 60 refereed journal articles in these areas. He is an associate editor of 4 other international journals (IEEE Access, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology, and IET Journal of Engineering) and a reviewer of over 30 international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery).
Leandros Maglaras
Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 200 papers in scientific magazines and conferences
Jun Pang
Research interests: Formal methods, security and privacy, big data analytics, computational systems biology
Mohammad Zavid Parvez
Mohammad Zavid Parvez is a scholar in computer science with over 16 years of academic and research experience spanning machine learning, biomedical signal processing, cybersecurity, and federated learning. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Charles Sturt University, Australia, where his research focused on epileptic seizure detection and prediction using EEG signals, and has since held research positions at Charles Sturt University and the ISI Foundation (Italy). He has published extensively in leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and Neurocomputing. He also serves as Topic Editor for Frontiers in Medicine. His current research interests include cyber threat intelligence, privacy-preserving medical data analysis, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.