Cathryn Peoples Editor

Kevin Daimi received his Ph.D. from the University of Cranfield, England.  He has a long academic and industry experience.  His research interests include Computer and Network Security with emphasis on vehicle network security, Software Engineering, Data Science, and Computer Science and Software Engineering Education.  He has published a number of papers on vehicle security. He is the editor of two books; Computer and Network Security Essentials, and Innovation in Cybersecurity Education which were published by Springer. He has been chairing the annual International Conference on Security and Management (SAM) since 2012. Kevin is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS). He is the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’10) in Recognition and Appreciation of his Leadership, Service and Research Contributions to the Field of Network Security. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy.

Cathryn Peoples received her Ph.D. from Ulster University, Northern Ireland in 2009, and has published a number of articles, book chapters and reviews since 2006. Her research interests include delay-tolerant networking, smart cities, green IT, Quality of Service and network management. She is currently a co-Editor-in-Chief of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems. Cathryn received an achievement award in recognition and appreciation of service contributions in the field of network security for the 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, and the Best Paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics in 2014. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the British Computing Society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Cathryn achieved Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in March 2018 and the Cisco Certified Entry Level Technician accreditation in November 2018. She is currently employed at Ulster University and The Open University in both teaching and researching roles.