Muhammad Shafiq (IEEE Senior Member) (Distinguished Associate Professor & Adjunct Professor) (Associate Editor at Hindawi, Frontiers, MDPI, IJASE CUT University) received his Ph.D. degree at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2018. He completed his Post-doctorate in 2020 at Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. He is currently Distinguished Associate Professor at the Cyberspace Institute of Advance Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, and Adjunct Professor at Shenyang Normal University, China. He is Associate Editor and Academic Editor at several well-known journals such as Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Journal etc. He became IEEE Senior Member in 2021. Recently, he won NSFC project in September 29, 2022 for the 2023 funded by National Natural Science Foundations of China (NSFC) (200000 RMB). In October 2022 he listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world (According to the recently released list by Stanford University USA). Recently, he won Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Reward (130,000 RMB) at Guangzhou University in August 2022. In 2021, he won Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements Reward (30,000 RMB) at Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University. He has been a Lead Guest Editor and Guest Editor in several Special Issues in well-reported SCI journals. He has Chair to several conferences. He is invited keynote speaker and chairperson at several well-known conferences. He is a member of several well-known conferences (CP, PC a, and TPC member). His current research areas of interest include Cybersecurity, Network Security, IoT Security, IoT anomaly and intrusion traffic classification, detection identification, IoT management, Network Traffic Classification, and Cloud Computing. He has authored more than over 70 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to cybersecurity. He has received multiple awards for Academic Excellence and University Contribution. He is the reviewer of many prominent journals, including, IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering, Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Service Computing, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Concurrency, and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), Journal of Parallel and Distributing Computing. In 2020, he received the certificate of Appreciation from Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience by Wiley.

Dr. Muhammad Shafiq (IEEE Senior Member)

Associate Editor at WCMC, Frontiers in CAN, IJASE,

Distinguished Associate Professor at

Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology

Guangzhou University, Guangzhou and

Adjunct Professor at Shenyang Normal University,

Shenyang, China

Email:srsshafiq@gmail.com,mshafiq@ieee.org