Wasim A. Ali received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and information technology from Taiz University, Taiz, Yemen, the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Mysore, Mysore, India, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering from the Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2024. He was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 2023. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Laboratory of Control and Automation, Politecnico di Bari. He has been involved in several European Horizon projects, including IN2CCAM, 6G-TWIN, CHORUS, and AcceptRemote. His research interests include cybersecurity and digital twins for intelligent transportation systems, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), machine learning-based intrusion detection, and explainable AI.