SK Hafizul Islam received Ph.D. (CSE) from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India, under the INSPIRE Fellowship Ph.D. Program (funded by the DST, Government of India). He is currently an Assistant Professor at IIIT Kalyani, West Bengal, India. Before joining the IIIT Kalyani, he was an Assistant Professor at the BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India. He has authored or co-authored 125 research papers in journals and conference proceedings of international reputes. His research interests include Information Security, Lattice-based Cryptography, IoT & Blockchain Security, and Deep Learning. He is an Associate Editor for "IEEE J-BHI", "IEEE T-ITS", "IEEE Systems Journal", "IEEE Access", “IJCS (Wiley)?, “Telecommunication Systems (Springer)", "IET Wireless Sensor Systems", “Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer)?, and Technical Committee Member for “Computer Communications (Elsevier)?. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal, the S. D. Singha Memorial Endowment Gold Medal, and the Sabitri Parya Memorial Endowment Gold Medal from Vidyasagar University, in 2006. He was also the recipient of the University Gold Medal from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad in 2009.