Alireza Jolfaei, Ph.D., received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Cryptography from Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. He is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor in North America) and a Program Leader of Cyber Security at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Before this appointment, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Federation University Australia and Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to cybersecurity. He has received multiple awards for Academic Excellence, University Contribution, and Inclusion and Diversity Support. He received the prestigious IEEE Australian council award for his research paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He received a recognition diploma with a cash award from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for his publication at the 2019 IEEE IES International Conference on Industrial Technology. He is a founding chair of the Federation University IEEE Student Branch. He served as the Chairman of the Computational Intelligence Society in the IEEE Victoria Section and also as the Chairman of Professional and Career Activities for the IEEE Queensland Section. He has served as the guest associate editor of IEEE journals and transactions, including the IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He has served over 10 conferences in leadership capacities including program co-Chair, track Chair, session Chair, and Technical Program Committee member, including IEEE TrustCom and IEEE INFOCOM. He is a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on the topic of Cyber Security and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).