Dr. Shahnawaz Khan is an assistant professor working in Bahrain Polytechnic’s School of ICT. He has received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), India. He has been associated with multiple universities in 4 countries. He has co-founded a Vocational Training Institute, and 2 IT companies and has served as a chief technical officer. He has almost 20 years of research, teaching, and industrial experience. He is an active researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence (Machine learning, natural language processing), Blockchain, and FinTech. He has published 3 patents, more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles, and 5 peer-reviewed edited books. He has been editor of several special issues of SCI and Scopus indexed journals.