Mohammad Ali A. Hammoudeh

سيرة

Mohammad is the Saudi Aramco Cybersecurity Chair Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. He is the winner of the Arab Researcher’s Award by the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation for 2023, forty-one session. Working with a global collaborative research network spanning the academic community, industry, policymakers and wider technology stakeholders, he published over 230 peer-reviewed research and edited 4 books and many journal special issues.  Mohammad is the founder and inaugural co-Editor in Cheif of ACM's journal of Distributed Ledger Technology: Research & Practice and the founder and co-editor of the blockchain section of Springer Nature CS journal. Mohammad co-developed a state-of-the-art unprivileged and trustless computing zero-trust security theory. This theory of zero trust is rooted in his research which was commercialised by multinational companies and national SMEs. Mohammad advised the UK’s Government on law reform related to national cybersecurity through a number of committees and hearings. Most recently, he advised the Defence Committee in the Parliament in relation to the national security strategy inquiry on the domestic threat of drones. He advised the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy in relation to its wide-ranging review of cybersecurity of critical national infrastructure. He also advised Parliament in relation to the present national security capability of the United Kingdom in responding to cybersecurity threats. He continues to be involved in legal reform relating to data privacy and best practices flowing from computer science academia into legislation.