Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and R&D professional. He is Associate Professor at University Canada West and the Founder of Hamta Group | Hamta Business Corporation. He holds PhD of Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Master of Computer Science (Information Security), and Bachelor degree in the field of Science of Power Electricity. With over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors, Dr. Hamed has established himself as an industry leader in the field of Management and Information Systems. He has some achievements in academia include winning several best paper awards and outstanding reviewer awards. Hamed has authored over 160 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings (h-index = 32; i10-index = 54; Sep 2022), as well as twelve book chapters and nine books in the field of technology and research methodology. He was the finalist for the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards at ECRM, UK in 2022 and was listed on Stanford-Elsevier list of World’s top 2% of scientist by August 2021.His academic experience started from 2009, as a lecturer in IAU and PNU. Beside on lectureship positions, he was a researcher at IAU for over 8 years. Most recently, he was R&D Manager, and Academic Program Manager of organizations from Singapore, Malaysia, Cyprus, the UK, Canada and Iceland. Currently, he is a Jury Member at Arctic Future Challenge, Iceland, Mentor at Futurpreneur Canada, and Vancouver Island University CETP program.Moreover, he is the editorial, reviewer & advisory board member of some authentic peer-reviewed journals publishing with Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Inderscience, MDPI, EAI, & IGI Publishing, and has served as an editor of book & proceedings for prestigious publishers. He has been a Technical Program Committee, Scientific Committee, and Organizing Committee of many international conferences& has organized and chaired numerous conferences and conference sessions respectively & has delivered speeches as chief guest & keynote speaker. He is a Senior Member IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, IEDRC, HkSRA and Working group member of IFIP TC 11. He is Certified Graduate Technologist, and Certified Cyber Security Technologists.He has published series of articles - books and book chapters in the field of research methodology to help researchers and students to proceed for their research projects more effectively and efficiently. Read more about this authorRead less about this author