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Baccalaureate Certificate Programs in Information Technology, Information Assurance, Security and Privacy and Logistic and Supply Chain Management. He was the director of MSITM, where during his tenure; he revised the curriculum, increased student enrollment and introduced new programs. Dr. Nemati is an award winning teacher and has extensive experience teaching various aspects of information technology. He has developed and taught over 30 new courses including courses in software application programming and web development, cybersecurity, information security, database development, knowledge management and data analytics. He has mentored undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students on various research projects including independent projects, theses and dissertations. He has mentored over twenty doctoral students and has been the academic advisor to over 100 graduate students and has supervised over 70 graduate research projects. To date, his research collaborations with his students has resulted in one published book and over 40 refereed research articles.

Naoto Yanai joined Osaka University as an assistant professor in 2014. He has been working as an associate professor in Osaka University since 2021. He is the head of the Information Security Engineering lab in graduate school of information science and Technology. His research area includes many aspects of information security from theoretical analysis based on mathematics to the vulnerability analysis of state-of-the-art technologies. He is working on the design of novel security technologies by leveraging the analysis results to prevent the latest cyberattacks.

Khodakhast Bibak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (September 2017 - August 2018) in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May-August 2017) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, from where he also received his PhD (April 2017). Prior to that, he obtained a Master of Mathematics degree (April 2013) at the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo, where he was also a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR). Khodakhast's research interests are Cybersecurity, Applied Cryptography, Quantum Information Science (QIS), Artificial Intelligence, and the related areas.