Abdulmohsen Almalawi received his BS degree in computer science from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2003. He received MS and PhD degrees in computer science from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and IT, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His research interests are intrusion detection and cybersecurity of industrial SCADA systems, with an emphasis on data mining, machine learning, and fast algorithms. He has published more than 40 journal articles in competitive venues such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Computers and Security, and others. He has also authored and co-authored two books in related areas.