Mousa Al-Kfairy received a B.Sc. degree in computer science from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, in 2006; an M.Sc. degree in computer science from Linkoping University, Sweden, in 2010; and a Ph.D. degree in information systems and computer science from Kingston University London, U.K., in 2019. He has been with the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University (ZU), UAE, since 2021. Before joining ZU, he was with the American University of Madaba, Jordan. His professional journey is marked by a robust blend of academic and industrial experiences. He spent seven years with Zenterio, Sweden, where he demonstrated remarkable versatility and growth. His roles there evolved from software engineer to pre-sales engineer, solution architect, and project manager. Further enhancing his diverse skill set, he excelled as a project manager with a prominent London-based company. He has several industrial certifications in Scrum, Kanban, and Agile methodologies. His academic interests are as dynamic as his career. He is deeply fascinated by human interaction with emerging technologies, particularly in areas like the Metaverse and AI chatbots. Beyond his research and teaching roles, he actively contributes to the academic community as a reviewer and associate editor for several esteemed journals and conferences. His research interests include metaverse applications, social commerce, AI applications, knowledge management, and innovation management.

Dheya Mustafa received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2004, a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Hashemite University, Jordan. Previously, he was with Intel Corporation, Austin, TX, USA, from 2012 to 2016, as a component design engineer, focusing on pre- and post-silicon system validation. His research interests include performance tuning and evaluation, parallel computing, high-performance computing, heterogeneous architectures and systems, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and STEM education technology.

Nir is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (USA). He has authored 12 books and more than 200 academic articles, which have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages. He has been ranked among the world’s top 0.03% researchers according to Elsevier BV and Stanford University’s “Updated sciencewide author databases of standardized citation indicators,” published in August 2021. Nir’s work has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, including BBC, Barron’s, Economist, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Public Radio International, Scientific American, and Bloomberg TV. He has provided consulting services to the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, various UN agencies, and several private companies. His editorial roles include computing economics editor for Computer, IT economics editor for IT Professional, and associate editor for Electronic Commerce Research. He is a two-time TEDx speaker about the roles of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, in fighting poverty. He is also responsible for the magazine's IT Economics column.

He is a research assistant at Zayed University, College of Technological Innovation. Mazen holds an MSC degree in GIS from Linkoping University, Sweden. He has a very long industrial experience as a GIS developer and expert. His research interests include AI applications, GIS, urban development, and innovation management.

Omar Alfandi is the Dean and Professor at Zayed University College of Technological Innovation. He received a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Engineering and Telematics from the Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany, in 2009. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2005 from the University of Technology, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Between 2009 and 2011, he enjoyed a post-doctoral Fellowship at Telematics Research Group, and he founded a research and education sensor lab where he is currently a lab advisor. Before that, he carried out his doctoral research as part of an Industry, Academia, and Research center collaboration with the European Union (EU) project. Dr. Alfandi was working package leader of EU DAIDALOS II in the 6th framework project. He published numerous articles on authentication framework for 4G communication systems, future internet and trust and reputation systems in mobile ad hoc, and sensor networks. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Sensors and Mobile Applications Research and Education (SMART) Lab at CTI. His current research activities focus on Internet of Things (IoT), security in next generation networks, smart technologies, security engineering, and mobile and wireless communications.