1. Introduction

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

IApart from his experience in industry, he also has some achievements in academia, Dr. Taherdoost has held. He has been a university lecturer in three different parts of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. His achademic expering positions in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America since 2009. He began his aence 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 Academic career as a lecturer at AU & PNU and later served as an adjunct professor and faculty fellow at WestcliffProgram 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 Island University, USA CETP program.

He Hhas continued his path in teaching concentrating on research tenure at IAU lasted over eight years, during which he supervised numerous students.

Dand 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 viewpoints in r. Teseaherdoost rch methods area in more than 30 open-access publications over years.

Besides, he has organized and chaired manynumerous workshops , conferences, and conferences sessions respectively, and has frequently been invited as adelivered speeches as chief guest and keynote speaker. He is an active member ofMoreover, he is the editorial, reviewer, and advisory boards for several prestigious member of some authentic peer-reviewed journals published bying with Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, & IGI Publishing, and Inderscience.

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

He puhas blished over 250 scientific articles published in top-tier journals and conference proceedingeen working with researchers from various disciplines and has been actively engaged in different research studies. 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 contrviews 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 ibn auted 30 book chapters, 14 edited books hentic 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 as well as 13 authored books 9 books in the field of technology and research methodology.

DHe was the PeerJ Award winner. Taherdoost' and the winner of Business Excellence Award for business leadership and , innovation have earned him numerous accolades, including THE BIZZ Business Excellence Award, PeerJ Award, and recognition at theand creativity, and results achieved, and was also selected as a qualified recipient of the Promising Startups in Asia at Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards. He was athe 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. 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 (He was ranked as 9th top SSRN Business Authors among world’s most-cited researchers till end of July 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 Editoawarded the most read contr of a Book Series with Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) entitled “Mastering Academic Excellence:butions from Canada by 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, Gate, 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 has been listed on the Stanford-Elsevier (IF: 5 & CS:4.5), Electronics MDPI (IF: 1.9 & CS: 4.7), Computers MDPI (IF:2.8 & CS: 4.7), Discover list of Computing World’s top 2% of scientist by SprinAuger and Academic Editor of PLOS ONEust 2021 and 2022.

He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is a GUS Fellow - GUS Institute | Global University Systems, senienior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, 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 Assuran, WGM of IFIP TC11 - 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.