Hamed Taherdoost is Associate Professor and Chair of RSAC, University Canada West. He holds PhD of Computer Science and Master of Information Security. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors.
He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in development of several projects in different industries including oil and gas, healthcare, transportation, and information technology, holding positions as varied as R&D Manager, Tech Lead, and CTO. He has spent the last ten years helping start-ups to grow by implementing new projects and business lines.
Apart from his experience in industry, he also has some achievements in academia. He has been a lecturer in three different parts of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Besides, he has organized and chaired numerous workshops, conferences, and conference sessions respectively, and has delivered speeches as chief guest and keynote speaker. Moreover, he is the editorial, reviewer, and advisory board member of some authentic peer-reviewed journals publishing with Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, & IGI Publishing, and Inderscience.
Hamed has been an active multidisciplinary researcher and R&D specialist involved in several academic and industrial research projects. He has been working with researchers from various disciplines and has been actively engaged in different research studies. His research achievements also include winning several best paper awards and outstanding reviewer awards. His views on science and technology have been published in top-ranked scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, IEEE, IGI Global, Inderscience, Taylor and Francis and Dr. Hamed has published over 250 scientific articles in authentic peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings (h-index = 43), thirty book chapters as well as twelve books in the field of technology and research methodology.
He has been listed on the Stanford-Elsevier list of World’s top 2% of scientists, August 2021, September 2022, and October 2023.
He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, and IEDRC and WGM of IFIP TC11 - Assurance and Information Security Management, and member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC, and AASHE.

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  University Canada West

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada