Mohammad Hammoudeh is the Aramco Cybersecurity Chair Professor and an internationally recognised, award-winning expert in cybersecurity. His work focuses on developing quantum-resilient architectures and AI-powered defence mechanisms to protect critical national infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on the security of operational technology (OT) and quantum-safe cryptography. His mission is to fortify industrial control systems against emerging and next-generation cyber threats. Dr. Hammoudeh is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM’s Distributed Ledger Technologies journal.