Dr. Shapla Khanam is a renowned academician and researcher celebrated for her substantial contributions to Cybersecurity and AI. Dr. Khanam is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Artificiall Intelligence (AI), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at University of Malaya (UM), in Malaysia. Previously, she held the position of Senior Lecturer at HELP university and  Assistant Professor at two different universities in Bangladesh. Additionally, she has worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Malaya (UM), a Lecturer, and an Application Engineer at Atlassian (an Australlian owned IT company) in Malaysia. Dr. Khanam earned her Ph.D. in Cybersecurity of Internet of Things using Deep Learning and her M.Eng. in Telecommunications Engineering from UM. She obtained her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Throughout her career, Dr. Khanam has actively contributed to various roles within professional organizations, notably serving as Vice-Chair of IEEE-UM and as Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity group at UM. Dr. Khanam has authored numerous articles published in reputable international Q1-rated journals and has presented various research ideas at conferences. Her research interests span several areas, including: Cyberssecurity, Intrusion Detection, Network Security Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning IoT, WSNs