Mohamed Ben Farah (BEng, MSc, PhD, HDR) is a research associate in the Institute for Signals, Sensors and Communications with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this position, Mohamed was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in information technology and signal processing in the national engineering school of Gabes at the University of Gabes in Tunisia , and the head of the encryption and image processing Research Group in Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technologies at the the University of Sfax. Prior to joining the University of Gabes, Mohamed was an assistant lecturer at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia. Mohamed is a reviewer for world leading academic conferences and journals and is the Outreach Lead of the Blockchain Group for IEEE UK and Ireland. His current research interests include pervasive security for IoT devices, Machine Learning Techniques for Cyber-Security and Engineering, Signal/Image Processing as well as privacy and Encyption.