Abdullah M. Iliyasu (aka Abdul M. Elias), Senior Member of IEEE, received the M.E., Ph.D., and Dr.Eng. degrees in computational intelligence and intelligent systems engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech.), Tokyo, Japan. Concurrently, he is a Research Faculty with the School of Computing, Tokyo Tech, and also the Principal Investigator and the Team Leader of the Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Engineering (ACIISE) Research Group, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University (PSAU), Saudi Arabia. He is also a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, China. In addition to being among the pioneers of research in the emerging Quantum Image Processing (QIP) Subdiscipline, he has to his credit more than 150 publications traversing the areas of computational intelligence, quantum cybernetics, quantum image processing, quantum machine learning, cyber and information security, hybrid intelligent systems, the Internet of Things, 4IR, health informatics, and electronics systems reliability. He is the Managing Editor of the Fuji Technology Press, Japan. He is a member of editorial board of many journals, including Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII), Quantum Reports journal, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), and the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI). He is also an Associate Editor in many other journals, including IEEE Access, Telekomnika, and Information Sciences.