Dr. Khalil El-Khatib is a full-time professor in the Networking and IT Security program and the director of Institute for Cyber Security and Resilient Systems at Ontario Tech University. Before joining Ontario Tech’s faculty, he was an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has worked for the National Research Council of Canada as a Research Officer in the Network Computing Group (now Information Security Group) and is a co-director of the Advanced Networking Technologies and Security research lab. His current research interests include: Security and privacy issues in wireless sensor network, mobile wireless ad hoc networks, and vehicular ad hoc networks; Big data and security analytics; Smart grid security; Biometrics; and Smart Communities for Smart Cities.