Dr Mohammed Al-Khalidi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security with more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience in the field. He has been awarded research funding by UKRI's Global Challenges Research Fund and other government bodies focusing on AI Security. 

His past assignments include Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, and Research Officer with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, where he also received his PhD degree. Prior to that, he worked in industry as a Senior Core Network Engineer at several multinational telecommunication companies.