Ismaila Idris received a B.Tech (Hons) in Mathematics\Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology, Minna and M.Sc in Information Security from University of Ilorin in 2002 and 2009 respectively. He received a PhD degree from Universiti of Teknologi Malaysia in 2014. Currently, he is with the Department of Cyber Security Science, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna. Idris is a member of editorial board of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJAIA).

Idris research interests includes Information Security, Data Mining, Software Engineering, Soft Computing, Computational intelligence and Information Retrieval.