1. Introduction

Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and research and development professional. He is the Founder of Hamta Business Corporation and Associate Professor at University Canada West. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors. He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in development of several projects in different industries, healthcare, transportation, residential, oil and gas and IT.

2. Achievements

In academia, Dr. Taherdoost has held teaching positions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America since 2009. He began his academic career as a lecturer at AU & PNU and later served as an adjunct professor and faculty fellow at Westcliff University, USA. His research tenure at IAU lasted over eight years, during which he supervised numerous students.

Dr. Taherdoost has organized and chaired many workshops and conferences and has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker. He is an active member of the editorial, reviewer, and advisory boards for several prestigious journals published by Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, IGI Publishing, and Inderscience. He has also participated as an organising, scientific and technical committee member in over 270 conferences held across Europe, America, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

He published over 250 scientific articles published in top-tier journals and conference proceedings. His work has been widely recognized, evidenced by an h-index of 45, i10-index of 106, over 18,300 citations on Google Scholar, more than 3.2 million reads, and 9,200 citations on ResearchGate, and 250,000 downloads on SSRN as of August 2024. He has also contributed 30 book chapters, 14 edited books as well as 13 authored books in the field of technology and research methodology.

Dr. Taherdoost's leadership and innovation have earned him numerous accolades, including THE BIZZ Business Excellence Award, PeerJ Award, and recognition at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards. He was a finalist for the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards and Southeast Asian Startup Awards by Global Startup Awards. Additionally, his research achievements also include winning several best paper awards, outstanding reviewer awards and best presentation awards like MLIS Best Presentation Award of 2021 & 2022, the Outstanding Editorial Board Member award from Bilingual Publishing Co., Best Paper of the Year of Computers MDPI, and Best Interview Award of Encyclopedia. His rankings include being listed among 10 top SSRN Business Authors (2022, 2023 & 2024) and featured in the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's top 2% of Scientists in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

He is the Editor of a Book Series with Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) entitled “Mastering Academic Excellence: Research, Teaching, Learning, and Publishing” . He is Editor of International Journal of Information Technology Project Management, IGI (IF: 0.8), EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, EAI (Q2), International Journal of Electronic Government Research, IGI (IF: 1.2), Information Resources Management Journal, IGI (IF:1.4), Journal of Blockchain MDPI, and and International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IF: 0.5 & CS: 0.9) by InderScience. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Scopus). He’s been a guest editor of special issues in Results in Engineering, Elsevier (IF: 5 & CS:4.5), Electronics MDPI (IF: 1.9 & CS: 4.7), Computers MDPI (IF:2.8 & CS: 4.7), Discover Computing by Springer and Academic Editor of PLOS ONE.

He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is a GUS Fellow - GUS Institute | Global University Systems, senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IEDRC & HKSRA, Fellow Member of ISAC and IASED, Working Group Member of International Federation for Information Processing - IFIP TC 11 - Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance and Information Security Management and member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC, and AASHE. Currently, he is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects, including studying innovation in information technology, blockchain and cybersecurity, and technology acceptance.