Dr Muthu Ramachandran is currently an Independent Educational and Research Consultant and an AI Ethics Research Consultant at AI Tech North and previously worked as a Principal Lecturer (Associate Professor) for more than 19+ years in the Computing, Creative Technologies, and Engineering School at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Previously, he spent nearly eight years in industrial research (Philips Research Labs and Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK) where Muthu has worked on various research projects including software security engineering, SOA, Cloud Computing, and main Software Engineering areas on RE, CBSE, software architecture, reuse, quality and testing. Muthu’s first career started as a research scientist where Muthu has worked on large scale real-time systems projects for Aerospace industrial applications. Muthu is an author & co-author of books: Software Components: Guidelines and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2008) and Software Security Engineering: Design and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2011). He has also widely authored and published 9 books, over 100s of journal articles, over 50 book chapters and over 200 conferences papers on various advanced topics in software engineering, software security, cloud computing and education. Muthu has been leading conference as chairs and as keynote speakers on global safety, security and sustainability, emerging services, IoTBDS, Complexis, Big Data, and Software Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing (SE-CLOUD 2018). Muthu is a member of various professional organizations and computer societies: Senior member of IEEE, ACM, Fellow of BCS, and a Senior Fellow of HEA. He is also invited keynote speaker on several international conferences. Muthu’s had worked on several research projects including all aspects of software engineering, SPI for SMEs (known as a Prism model), emergency and disaster management systems, software components and architectures, good practice guidelines on software developments, software security engineering, and service and cloud computing. Scopus profile at: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8676632200