M. Ali Babar is a Professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide. He leads a theme on architecture and platform for security as service in CyberSecurity Cooperative Research Centre. Prof Babar has established an interdisciplinary research centre called CREST (Centre for Research on Engineering Software Technologies), where he directs the research, education, and engineering activities of more than 25 researchers and engineers. Prof Babar has attracted more than $12 Millions dollar cash funding from industry/government since 2017. Professor Babar has authored/co-authored more than 270 peer-reviewed research papers at premier Software journals and conferences. Professor Babar obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the school of computer science and engineering of University of New South Wales, Australia.