Dhaval Thakker Editor

Dhaval Thakker is a professor of AI and IoT and currently serves as director of research at the University of Hull, UK. He also acts as the University's Turing academic lead. He leads the Responsible AI Research Group, which focuses on safe, fair, and explainable AI solutions for high-stakes domains such as healthcare, law, defence, and energy. Since 2018, he has contributed to projects with a total awarded value of £12.8M. Zeeshan Pervez is director of the Cyber Resilience and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, and a professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Wolverhampton. He has a strong track record of successfully completing research, industry, and capacity-building projects. His areas of expertise include cybersecurity, applied ML/AI, internet of things, edge computing, and data analytics, with applications including cyber resilience, digital twins, industry 4.0, smart cities, predictive maintenance, facilities management, and healthcare. Bhupesh Kumar Mishra is a lecturer in AI and Data Science at the University of Hull, UK. His research focuses on ethical, scalable AI solutions in healthcare, industrial optimisation, and environmental sustainability. With over seven years of experience in interdisciplinary research, he has secured competitive funding, published more than 30 high-impact articles, and received multiple best paper awards. He supervises doctoral and postgraduate researchers and actively contributes to CPD development, peer review, and conference leadership.