1. Introduction

Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and research and development professional. He is the Founder of Hamta Group | Hamta Business SoluCorporation 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

Apart from his experieInce in industry, he also has some achievements in academia. He has been a university lecturer in three different parts of the world, academia, Dr. Taherdoost has held Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. His academhic experience started from 2009, as a lecturer in AU and PNU. He is Adjunct Professor at Westcliff University and Canadian College. Beside on lectureship positions, he was a researcher at IAU for over 8 years. Most recently, he was Team Leader, R&D Manager, Technical R&D Consultant, and Ang positions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America since 2009. He began his academic Program Manager of Research Club and Hamta Academy, Malaysia, Mentor at Publons Academy, and is Advisory Board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, and Scientific Board of NASS, Singapore, and the Mentor at Futurpreneur Canada, and Vancouver Islandcareer as a lecturer at AU & PNU and later served as an adjunct professor and faculty fellow at Westcliff University CETP program.

, USA. He has continued his path in teaching concentrating on s research and development for over 13 years teaching to undergraduate students, postgraduates, and executive staff in different countries. He has also developed many R&D teams in different businesses inspiring project team members from various educational backgrounds to play effective roles in R&D teams. He has developed his customized approaches in teaching research methodology and shared his viewpointstenure at IAU lasted over eight years, during which he supervised numerous students.

Dr. in reseTarch methods area in more than 30 open-access publications over years.

Besides, herdoost he has organized and chaired numerousmany workshops, and conferences, and conference sessions respectively, and has delivered speeches as chief guest and and has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker. Moreover, he isHe is an active member of the editorial, reviewer, and advisory board member of some authentic peer-revieweds for several prestigious journals publishing withed by Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, & IGI Publishing, and Inderscience.

Hamed has been an active multidisciplinary researcher and R&D specialist involved in several academic and industrial research projects has also participated as an organising, scientific and technical committee member in over 270 conferences held across Europe, America, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

He publishas been working with researchers from various disciplines and has been actively engaged in different research studieed over 250 scientific articles published in top-tier journals and conference proceedings. His views on science and technology have been published in top-ranked scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, IEEE, IGI Global, Inderscience, Taylor and Francis and Dr. Hamed has published over 170 scientific articles 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 contrin abuthentic peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings (h-index = 34; i10-index = 65; over 8,800 citations on Google Scholar; over 2.6 million reads and 4,521 citations on Researchgate; 123,839 downloads on SSRN), 12 book chapters ed 30 book chapters, 14 edited books as well as 13 authored books 9 books in the field of technology and research methodology.

HeDr. was the PeerJ Award winner and the winner ofTaherdoost's leadership and innovation have earned him numerous accolades, including THE BIZZ Business Excellence Award for business leadership, innovation and creativity, PeerJ Award, and results achieved, and was also selected as a qualified recipient of the Promising Startups in Asia atcognition at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards. He was thea finalist for the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards and was nominated as the finalists in Southeast Asian Startup Awards by Global Startup Awards. He was ranked as 9th top SSRN Business Authors among world’s most-cited researchers till end of July 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, awarded the most read c2023 & 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 Boontk Seributions from Canada byies with Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) entitled “Mastering Academic Excellence: ResearchGate, July and October 2021. His research achievements also include winning several best paper awards, outstanding reviewer awards and best presentation awards like MLIS 2021 & 2022. He ha, 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 listed on the Stanford-a guest editor of special issues in Results in Engineering, Elsevier list of (IF: 5 & CS:4.5), Electronics MDPI (IF: 1.9 & CS: 4.7), Computers MDPI (IF:2.8 & CS: 4.7), Discover Computing World’s top 2% of scientist by AuSpringust 2021 and 2022er and Academic Editor of PLOS ONE.

He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is a GUS Fellow - GUS Insenititute | Global University Systems, senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, IEDRC & HKSRA, Fellow Member of ISAC, WGM of IFIP TC11 - Assuran 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.