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Professor Issa Traore has a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Institute Nationale Polytechnique - Toulouse, France. Dr. Traore is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Plurilock Security Solutions Inc. Plurilock delivers biometrics security and online fraud detection solutions to the global market. Dr. Traore is also a full Professor at the University of Victoria, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1999. He is the founder and Coordinator of the Information Security and Object Technology (ISOT) Laboratory. He is the co-author of the first book on continuous authentication using biometric technologies and the first book on gait biometrics based on the ground reaction force (GRF). He has been granted two US patents on behavioral biometrics and emerging authentication technologies. He has published over 130 papers in archival journals and conferences on network security and biometrics technologies.

Dr. Ahmed Awad is an Associate Professorin the Department of Computer Science, NYIT Vancouver Campus. His main research interest is focused on Security Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, and Biometrics. Dr. Awad worked as a Software Design Engineer, Architect, Project Manager, and Security Consultant at a number of leading software firms and enterprises. He is the co-founder of Plurilock Security Solutions Inc. Dr. Awad  received Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada in 2008.

Professor Isaac Woungang received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of South, Toulon and Var, France. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer in the Photonic Line Systems Group, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now a full professor of Computer Science and Director of the Distributed Applications and Broad band (DABNEL) Lab. Dr. Woungang has published 8 booksand over 89 refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences. He has served as Associate Editor of the Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and the International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley). He has Guest Edited several Special Issues with various reputed journals such as IET Information Security, Mathematical and Computer Modeling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and Telecommunication Systems (Springer). Since January 2012, he is serving as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section.