Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan,
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
IET Fellow, BCS Fellow, FTRA Fellow, IEEE
Senior Member
Editor-in-Chief of International journal
‘Telecommunication Systems
Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society
Saudi Chapter
Muhammad Khurram Khan is currently working
as a Professor of Cybersecurity at the
Center of Excellence in Information
Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is one of the
founding members of CoEIA and has served as
Manager R&D from March 2009 until March
2012. He, along with his team, developed and
successfully managed Cybersecurity research
program at CoEIA, which turned the center as
one of the best centers of excellence in
Saudi Arabia and in the region.
He is founder and CEO of the ‘Global
Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research’
(http://www.gfcyber.org), an independent and
non-partisan cybersecurity think-tank in
Washington D.C, USA.
Prof. Khurram is the Editor-in-Chief of a
well-reputed International journal
‘Telecommunication Systems’ published by
Springer-Nature with its recent impact
factor of 1.73 (JCR 2020). He is the editor
of several international journals,
including, IEEE Communications Surveys &
Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine,
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics,
Journal of Network & Computer Applications
(Elsevier), IEEE Access, IEEE Consumer
Electronics Magazine, PLOS ONE, Electronic
Commerce Research, IET Wireless Sensor
Systems, Journal of Information Hiding and
Multimedia Signal Processing, and
International Journal of Biometrics, etc. He
has also played role of the guest editor of
several international journals of IEEE,
Springer, Wiley, Elsevier Science, and
Hindawi. Moreover, he is one of the
organizing chairs of more than 5 dozen
international conferences and member of
technical committees of more than 10 dozen
international conferences. In addition, he
is an active reviewer of many international
journals as well as research foundations of
Switzerland, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Czech
Republic.
Prof. Khurram is an honorary Professor at
IIIRC, Shenzhen Graduate School, China;
Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing,
China; and an adjunct professor at Fujian
University of Technology, China. He has
secured an outstanding leadership award at
IEEE international conference on Networks
and Systems Security 2009, Australia. He has
been included in the Marquis Who’s Who in
the World 2010 edition. Besides, he has
received certificate of appreciation for
outstanding contributions in ‘Biometrics &
Information Security Research’ at AIT
international Conference, June 2010 at
Japan. He has been awarded a Gold Medal for
the ‘Best Invention & Innovation Award’ at
10th Malaysian Technology Expo 2011,
Malaysia. Moreover, in April 2013, his
invention has got a Bronze Medal at '41st
International Exhibition of Inventions' at
Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he was
awarded best paper award from the Journal of
Network & Computer Applications (Elsevier)
in Dec. 2015. Prof. Khurram is the recipient
of King Saud University Award for Scientific
Excellence (Research Productivity) in May
2015. He is also a recipient of King Saud
University Award for Scientific Excellence
(Inventions, Innovations, and Technology
Licensing) in May 2016.
He has published more than 375 papers in the
journals and conferences of international
repute. In addition, he is an inventor of 10
US/PCT patents. He has edited 10
books/proceedings published by
Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis and IEEE.
He has secured several national and
international competitive research grants
with an amount of over USD 3 Million in the
domain of Cybersecurity. Prof. Khurram has
played a leading role in developing 'BS
Cybersecurity Degree Program' and 'Higher
Diploma in Cybersecurity' at King Saud
University. In 2019, he has played an
instrumental role as a cybersecurity subject
expert for a USD 6 Million series B
investment in a South Korean startup
‘SecuLetter’, which has received a corporate
valuation of USD 38 Million (2020).
His research areas of interest are
Cybersecurity, digital authentication, IoT
security, biometrics, multimedia security,
cloud computing security, cyber policy, and
technological innovation management. He is a
fellow of the IET (UK), fellow of the BCS
(UK), fellow of the FTRA (Korea), senior
member of the IEEE (USA), senior member of
the IACSIT (Singapore), member of the IEEE
Consumer Electronics Society, member of the
IEEE Communications Society, member of the
IEEE Computers Society, member of the IEEE
Technical Committee on Security & Privacy,
member of the IEEE IoT Community, member of
the IEEE Smart Cities Community, and member
of the IEEE Cybersecurity Community. He is
also the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications
Society Saudi Chapter. He is a distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE.
His detailed profile can be visited at
http://www.professorkhurram.com
Prof. Maode Ma, Fellow of
IET
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received
his Bachelor degree from Department of
Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua
University in 1982, his Master degree from
Department of Computer Science and
Technology in Tianjin University in 1991,
and his Ph.D. degree in Department of
Computer Science from Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Dr.
Ma is a tenured Associate Professor in the
School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore. He has extensive
research interests including network
security and wireless networking. He has led
25 research projects funded by government,
industry, military and universities in
various countries. He has supervised over 20
research students to get their Ph. D degree.
He has been a conference chair, technical
symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication
chair, publicity chair and session chair for
over 100 international conferences. He has
been a member of the technical program
committees for more than 200 international
conferences. Dr. Ma has more than 400
international academic publications
including about 200 journal papers and more
than 200 conference papers. He has edited 4
technical books and produced over 25 book
chapters. His publication has received more
than 4500 citation in Google Scholar. He has
delivered about 70 keynote speeches and 10
tutorials at various international
conferences. He currently serves as the
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of
Computer and Communication Engineering,
Journal of Communications and International
Journal of Electronic Transport. He also
serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an
Associate Editor for International Journal
of Security and Communication Networks,
International Journal of Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing and
International Journal of Communication
Systems. He had been an Associate Editor for
IEEE Communications Letters from 2003 to
2011. Dr. Ma is a senior member of IEEE
Communication Society and IEEE Education
Society, and a member of ACM. He is now the
Secretary of the IEEE Singapore Section and
the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He
has served as an IEEE Communication Society
Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016.