Dr Mehari G. Msgna received his BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering (with distinction) from Mekelle Institute of Technology (MIT) in July 2007, MSc in Information Security (with distinction) at the ISG, Royal Holloway University of London in 2009. He gained a PhD in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Konstantinos Markantonakis. His areas of interest, in general, are cryptography, smart cards/tokens security, side-channel attacks, virtual machine for embedded systems and biometrics.