Dr Mohammed Al-Khalidi is an associate professor in Cyber Security and leader of the Cyber Security Research Lab at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. He has 20 years of academic and industrial experience in the fields of Cyber Security, Networking, and AI. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of several technical societies, and a distinguished speaker with more than 50 international keynote speeches. He has been awarded research funding by UKRI’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), The UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), and other government bodies focussing on AI Security and Network Security. His past assignments include Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, UK, and Research Officer with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, where he also received his PhD degree. Prior to that, he worked in industry as a Senior Core Network Engineer at several multinational telecommunication companies. His research interests include AI security, IoT security, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Ad-Hoc Networks, and Information Centric Networks.
