Mahdi Zareei (M’17 – SM’20) received the M.Sc. degree in computer network from the University of Science, Malaysia, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the Communication Systems and Networks Research Group, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, University of Technology, Malaysia, in 2016. In 2017, he joined the School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where from 2019, he started working as a Research Professor. His research mainly focuses on information security, applied machine learning and natural language processing. He is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System (level I). He is also serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS, PLOS One, and Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journals.