Dr. Ali Safaa Sadiq is an Associate Professor in cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University and director of the Cyber Security Research Group. He is also a senior IEEE member and adjunct staff at Monash University and an honorary associate professor at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation, Torrens University Australia. He served as a senior lecturer in intelligent networks at the University of Wolverhampton and a lecturer at the School of Information Technology, Monash University, Malaysia. Previously, he also served as a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Systems and Networking Department, Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. He completed his first degree in computer science in 2004. After that, He had 5 years of industrial experience in computer science and networking. He received his MSc and Ph.D. Degree in computer science in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He was awarded the Pro-Chancellor Academic Award as the best student in his batch for both his master's and Ph.D.