Author: Reza M. Parizi

Reza M. Parizi is the director of Decentralized Science Lab (d SL) at Kennesaw State University, GA, USA. He is a consummate technologist and security researcher with an entrepreneurial spirit. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Blockchain Community, and ACM. Prior to joining KSU, he was a faculty at the New York Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering in 2012 and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering and Computer Science respectively in 2008 and 2005. His research interests are R&D in blockchain, smart contracts, federated learning, and emerging issues in the practice of secure AI-run world applications. Ali Dehghantanha is the director of Cyber Science Lab in the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His lab is focused on building AI-powered solutions to support cyber threat attribution, cyber threat hunting and digital forensics tasks in Internet of Things (Io T), Industrial Io T, and Internet of Military of Things (Io MT) environments. Ali has served for more than a decade in a variety of industrial and academic positions with leading players in cyber security and AI. Prior to joining Uof G, he has served as a Sr. Lecturer in the University of Sheffield – UK. He is an EU Marie-Curie Fellow alumnus and an IEEE Sr. member. He received his Ph.D. in Security in Computing in 2011 and his M.Sc. in Security in Computing in 2008.   Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, TX, USA. In 2015 he and his team won the Digital Forensics Research Challenge organized by Germany”s University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is the recipient of the 2019 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher), 2018 UTSA College of Business Col. Jean Piccione and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Research Award for Tenured Faculty, British Computer Society”s 2019 Wilkes Award Runner-up, 2019 EURASIP JWCN Best Paper Award, Korea Information Processing Society”s JIPS Survey Paper Award (Gold) 2019, IEEE Blockchain 2019 Outstanding Paper Award, Best Paper Awards from IEEE Trust Com 2018 and ESORICS 2015, Fulbright Scholarship in 2009, 2008 Australia Day Achievement Medallion, and British Computer Society”s Wilkes Award in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, an IEEE Senior Member, and Co-Chair of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee”s Digital Rights Management for Multimedia Interest Group.