Adnan Nadeem (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Communication Systems, U.K., in 2011. He has been an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Computer and Information System (FCIS), Islamic University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, since 2016. He is currently with the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology, Pakistan. During this period, he earned several research grants. He has published more than 50 articles in international conferences and journals and completed several funded research projects. He has mainly worked on network layer security, QoS and reliability issues of mobile ad hoc, and sensors networks. He is also focusing on blockchain technology applications. He received the Fifth HEC Outstanding Research Award 2013/2014 for his article published in the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS (I.F = 20.30). During his pedagogical journey, he has received several awards and achievements, including the Foreign Ph.D. scholarship, Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), U.K., in 2009, and the Best Paper and Best Track Paper Award in the ICICTT 2013 and ICEET 2016 conferences, respectively. He received Nishan-e-Imtiaz for his outstanding research from Federal Urdu University, Pakistan, in August 2016. He received the Best Academic Advisor and the Best Researcher Award from FCIS, Islamic University of Madinah, in 2018