Naila Mukhtar (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from the CIIT, Pakistan, and the M.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Engineering Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with Macquarie University, Sydney. She has over five years of experience as a research and design engineer with different organizations with a primary focus on integrated security solutions. Her research interests include cryptography, network security, the IoT, data analysis, and embedded system security.