Prof. Azizol Abdullah received an M.Sc. degree in engineering (telematics) from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in parallel and distributed systems from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2010. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Technology and Communication Networking, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He currently leads the Wireless, Mobile, and Quantum (WiMoQ) Research Group and is also a member of two other groups: NPDC and the Cybersecurity Group. He is the Head of the Network, Parallel, and Distributed Computing Research Group and a member of the Information Security Research Group at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UPM. At the national level, he is a member of Cyber Security Academia Malaysia (CSAM). He was also appointed as a Fellow Researcher for the ITU-UUM Asia Pacific Center of Excellence for Rural ICT Development (ITU-UUM). He has served as a consultant for the AnyCast@MyDNS Project, MyNIC, projects under the Ministry of Science and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI), and the Integrated Sports Management System Project for the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Malaysia. His main research areas include cloud and grid computing, network security, wireless and mobile computing, and computer networks. He is actively engaged in research on malware detection, SDN, SD-WAN networks, and SD-WAN security.
Prof. Azizol Abdullah received an M.Sc. degree in engineering (telematics) from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in parallel and distributed systems from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2010. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Technology and Communication Networking, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He currently leads the Wireless, Mobile, and Quantum (WiMoQ) Research Group and is also a member of two other groups: NPDC and the Cybersecurity Group. He is the Head of the Network, Parallel, and Distributed Computing Research Group and a member of the Information Security Research Group at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UPM. At the national level, he is a member of Cyber Security Academia Malaysia (CSAM). He was also appointed as a Fellow Researcher for the ITU-UUM Asia Pacific Center of Excellence for Rural ICT Development (ITU-UUM). He has served as a consultant for the AnyCast@MyDNS Project, MyNIC, projects under the Ministry of Science and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI), and the Integrated Sports Management System Project for the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Malaysia. His main research areas include cloud and grid computing, network security, wireless and mobile computing, and computer networks. He is actively engaged in research on malware detection, SDN, SD-WAN networks, and SD-WAN security.