Yassine Maleh - Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber Physical Systems

is a cybersecurity professor and practitioner with industry and academic experience. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences. Since 2019, he is working as a professor of cybersecurity at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He worked for the National Ports Agency (ANP) in Morocco as a senior security analyst from 2012 to 2019. He is the founding chair of IEEE Consultant Network Morocco and founding president of the African Research Center of Information Technology and Cybersecurity. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of the International Association of Engineers and the Machine Intelligence Research Labs. Dr. Maleh has made contributions in the fields of information security and privacy, Internet of Things security, and wireless and constrained networks security. His research interests include information security and privacy, Internet of Things, networks security, information system, and IT governance. He has published over 70 papers (book chapters, international journals, conferences/workshops), 12 edited books, and 3 authored books. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) and the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access (2019 Impact Factor 4.098), the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, and the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy. He was also a guest editor of a special issue on Recent Advances on Cyber Security and Privacy for Cloud-of-Things of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, Volume 10, Issue 3, JulySeptember 2019. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees and as a reviewer of numerous international conferences and journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Sensor Journal, ICT Express, and Springer Cluster Computing. He was the publicity chair of BCCA 2019 and the general chair of the MLBDACP 19 symposium and ICI2C21 Conference.

completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2004, and M.Sc. in 2002 from the same university with GPA 4/4. Dr. Tawalbeh is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computing and Cyber Security at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Before that he was a visiting researcher at the University of California-Santa Barbra. Since 2005 he taught/developed more than 25 courses in different disciplines of computer engineering and science with a focus on cybersecurity for the undergraduate/graduate programs at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), DePauls University, and Jordan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Tawalbeh won many research grants and awards with over than 2 million USD. He has over 80 research publications in refereed international journals and conferences.