Dr. Joseph Spring is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. He completed his BSc (Hons) studies in Mathematics at the University of London, Bedford College in 1984, MSc studies in Mathematics at King's College London in 1985, and PhD studies in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire in 2012. His research interests include classical and quantum-based security for distributed, ad hoc, and IoT systems, classical and quantum cryptography, AI, communication protocols, probability and stochastic theory.