Cybersecurity for Smart Cities : Practices and Challenges

Dr. Mohiuddin Ahmed is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Computing and Security at the School of Science at Edith Cowan University. He has been educating the next generation of cyber leaders and researching to disrupt the cybercrime ecosystem. His research is focused on ensuring national security and defending against ransomware attacks. Mohiuddin has edited several books and contributed articles to The Conversation. His research publications in reputed venues attracted more than 2500 citations and have been listed in the world's top 2% of scientists for the 2020-2022 citation impact. Mohiuddin secured several external and internal grants worth more than $1.4 Million and has been collaborating with academia and industry. He has been regularly invited to speak at international conferences and public organizations and interviewed by the media for expert opinion. He is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker, Australian Computer Society Certified Professional and Senior Member of IEEE.

Prof. Paul Haskell-Dowland is Professor of Cyber Security Practice and Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He has delivered keynotes, invited presentations, workshops, professional development/training and seminars across the world for audiences including RSA Security, ITU and IEEE. He has appeared on local, national and international media (newspaper, radio and TV) commenting on current cyber-issues with a global audience reach of more than 1.5 billion people. His contributions through articles published in The Conversation have reached over 2.8 million readers―joining the top-50 all-time authors in Australia/New Zealand (top 10 in 2021). He has more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity research and education in both the UK and Australia. He is Working Group Coordinator and ACS/Australian Country Member Representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC11―Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems); Secretary to IFIP Working Group 11.1 (Information Security Management); Member of the ACS Cyber Security Committee; Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Senior Member of the IEEE and ACS (Certified Professional); and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, BCS and the Australian Information Security Association. He is the author of over 90 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and edited 30 books/proceedings.