Dr. Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2022. He also holds an Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and Master of Computer Applications degree from India. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity with the Faculty of Computer Studies, Arab Open University, Bahrain, where he also serves as the Program Coordinator for the B.S. in Data Science program. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Multimedia University, Malaysia. Dr. Belgaum has more than 20 years of academic, research, and administrative experience in higher education. He has authored more than 50 research publications in high-impact journals and international conferences. His research interests include AI, ML, DL, cybersecurity, SDN, cloud computing, IoT, explainable AI, agentic AI, quantum computing, and intelligent healthcare systems. Dr. Belgaum serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing and has been a Technical Program Committee member and reviewer for several IEEE and Springer international conferences. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v13) and holds Oracle Database professional certifications. His research has been supported through a funded project on intelligent load balancing in software-defined networks at Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.