Yeslam is an Associate Professor in Information Technology at Charles Sturt University. He has been an academic at Charles Sturt University since 2003 and has been successful in the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) grants three times so far including in one as the Lead Chief Investigator. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (with honours) in Computer and Information Engineering from Malaysia and a Master of Information Technology and a PhD from Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of social media and ethics in computing.