Dr. Shailendra Rathore is Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) in the Division of Cybersecurity at Abertay University, UK, working at the £18 million CyberQuarter research and development centre. He is a member of the university’s Research Ethics Committee and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), holding a PGCert in Academic Practice (PGCAP). Dr. Rathore has over four years of academic experience in the UK, including a previous role as Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Plymouth, where he contributed to the £3 million Cyber-SHIP Lab project. Recently, he was awarded £90K R-LINCS2 funding for research on privacy-preserving machine learning for Next-Generation IoT (NG-IoT) security. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University of Science and Technology in South Korea. His research interests include Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Machine Learning. Dr. Rathore has published extensively in top-tier journals and actively contributes to international IEEE and ACM conferences.