Dr. Nedal holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Sydney, Australia. He served as Senior Lecturer and Program Chair of Undergraduate Programs in IT from 2017 to 2019 and was a Visiting Research Scientist at CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, from 2016 to 2017. Prior to this, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Bahrain from 2012 to 2016, and as a Senior Research Fellow at WiSAR Lab, Ireland, and a Research Fellow at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France. Dr. Ababneh’s primary research interests include Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Body Area Networks, Network and Information Security, and Steganography. He is a member of several professional organizations such as IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, ACM, and the Australian Computer Society, and has published numerous papers in leading international journals and conferences.