Abdul Waheed received his M.S. in Computer Science from Hazara University, Mansehra, in 2014 and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same institution in 2021, with his doctoral research conducted at NetLab-INMC, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, under the HEC research program in 2019. He is a member of the Crypto-Net research group at Hazara University and has held several academic and administrative positions, including Assistant Professor, Head of the Computer Science Department, and Director of IT at Women University Swabi, as well as Assistant Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at Northern University, Nowshera. He is currently serving as Associate Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Department at CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar. His research interests include information security, secure and smart cryptography, heterogeneous communications in IoT, MANETs, WSN security, and fuzzy logic-based decision-making, and he has published extensively in reputed journals and international conferences.