Elochukwu Ukwandu had PhD in 2019 from Edinburgh Napier University on a programme entitled: Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System in Distributed-Cloud Architecture. The PhD was in the domain of Applied Cryptography and produced a method of sharing and recovering data in distributed-cloud architecture using a combination of data fragmentation and secret sharing scheme. In addition, it involved the development of evaluation frameworks to measure scalability and resilience of this method in relation to similar methods. His teaching and learning practices in Cardiff School of Technologies (CST) since joining in 2020 has seen him participate in range of tasks from participating in undergraduate periodic module review exercise, module leaderships, BSc and MSc projects and PhD research degree supervisions. With regards to his research and innovation leadership and activities, he has the potential of creating disruptive and game changing ideas. This is evidenced by the successful acceptance of one of his ideas on Unique and Non-Discriminatory End-User Authentication Systems for UK Citizens and Residents as a Moonshot by UKRI and DSIT Pioneer Innovation Talent Team through the ongoing UK’s New Moonshot programme. This idea as presented to UKRI-DSIT panel also defines policy frameworks, expertise and stakeholders required to achieve it. UKRI research councils have recommended him as an expert in his field having been admitted as a member of UKRI Talent Peer Review College. Prior to joining Cardiff Metropolitan University as a lecturer, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Strathclyde University on a multi-national, multi-partner EU-funded project.

Programme Director for MSc Information Technology Management and MSc Technology and Project Management at Cardiff Met, UK. Research interests: 1. Cyber Security and Privacy Provisioning in Smart Connected Environment. 2. IoT use case of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs): Protocol provisioning for Smart Services. 3. Electric Vehicles (EV): Communication & Charging Infrastructure Planning and Management. 4. Vehicles (IoV): Heterogeneous Network Architecture & Geo-Enabling Protocol Development

Prof. Lalit Garg is an Associate Professor in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Malta, and an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Ulster University, UK. Prof Garg has supervised 200+ Masters' dissertations, 2 DBA and 5 PhD theses and published 150+ high-impact publications in refereed journals/conferences/books, 16 edited books and 22 patents. He has delivered numerous keynote speeches, organised/chaired international conferences, and consulted countless public and private organisations for information systems implementation and management. His research interests are business intelligence, machine learning, data science, deep learning, cloud computing, mobile computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), information systems, management science and their applications, mainly in healthcare and medical domains. He participates in many EU and locally funded projects, including a one million euro Erasmus+ Capacity-Building project in Higher Education (CBHE), titled Training for Medical Education via Innovative eTechnology (MediTec) and Malta Council of Science and Technology's Space Research Funds. The University of Malta has awarded him the 2021-22 Research Excellence Award for exploring Novel Intelligent Computing Methods for healthcare requirements forecasting, allocation and management (NICE-Healthcare)