Dr. Mehbub Alam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Raichur, India. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati. Prior to joining IIIT Raichur, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, where he contributed to research on secure unmanned traffic management systems and drone security. His research interests include cybersecurity, drone/UAV security, Internet of Things (IoT), fog and edge computing, and verifiable computing. He has published research in leading venues such as IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier). His work focuses on secure communication frameworks, lightweight authentication mechanisms, and scalable architectures for next-generation cyber-physical and IoT systems.