Prof. Hossain Shahriar is an Associate Director and Professor of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor (2018–2023) and Assistant Professor (2012–2018) at the College of Computing and Software Engineering, Department of Information Technology at Kennesaw State University (KSU). He holds a Ph.D. in Computing and an M.Sc. in Computer and Information Science from the School of Computing, Queen's University. His research interests include mobile and web security, mHealth, EHR systems and healthcare security, HIPAA compliance checking, malware analysis, automatic checking of vulnerabilities, and mitigation. He developed and taught courses with open-source materials such as Ethical Hacking, AI in Cybersecurity, Health Information Security and Privacy, Computing Infrastructure, and Information Security Concepts and Administration.