Professional Services and Leadership

Educations

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2017
- Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
- University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Advisors: Professor Jinjun Chen (IEEE Fellow) and Professor Rajiv Ranjan (IEEE Fellow)
- Thesis - Towards Efficient and Lightweight Security Architecture for Big Sensing Data Streams
Master of Technologoy (M.Tech) 2012
- Computer Science and Engineering (Specialization- Information Security)
- National Institute of Technology(NIT) Rourkela, India
- Thesis - Secure Data Collection and Critical Data Transmission Technique in Mobile Sink WSNs

Professional Experiances / Appointments

Affiliate Professor – University West, Sweden
- Department of Engineering Science
- June 2023 -
Assistant Professor – Khalifa University, UAE
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Aug 2021 -
Visiting Professor – Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA
- School of Engineering and Technology
- July 2021 - Dec 2021
Visiting Professor – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- School of Cyber Science and Engineering
- June 2021 - Present
Honorary Fellow – University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia
- Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
- May 2019 - Present
Lecturer (Level G)/ Assistant Professor – Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- School of Computing
- May 2019 - June 2021
Lecturer/ Assistant Professor – University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia
- Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
- Feb 2017 - May 2019
Graduate Research Assistant – Commonwelth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
- Data 61
- April 2014 - March 2017
Research Associate – Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), QSTP, Doha, Qatar.
- Intelligent Transport and Mobility Group
- March 2013 - March 2014

Editor Services

Section Editor

Springer Nature Computer Science Journal

Associate Editor

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2021 - )
IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2018 - )
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2022 - )
International Journal of Communication Systems, (John Wiley & Sons) (2018 - )
Internet Technology Letters, (John Wiley & Sons) (2017 - )
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (2017 - 2023)
IEEE Systems Journal (2020 - 2022)
Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) (2019 - 2021)
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) (2017 - 2021)

Invited Guest Editor

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal
Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier)
Information Systems Frontier
Computational Intelligence

Grant Reviewer

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (FONDECYT), Chile
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar
University of Jeddah, KSA

Thesis Examiner

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: University of Bradford, UK
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: University of Tasmania, Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Khalifa University, UAE
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan

Invited Talks/ Keynotes

2023 'Is private Blockchain dead?', Pannel talk, IEEE ICBC, Dubai, UAE.
2023 'Software-Defined Perimeter: AI-driven Solution to Securing the Systems with User Demands', University Level Talk, NIT Warangal, India.
2022 '6G Security and Privacy', Pannel talk, 6G Summit Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2022 'Adaptive and sclably Blockchain Consensus designing for the IoT', Invited talk, IEEE UK & Ireland Blockchain Section, UK.
2022 'Software-Defined Perimeter: AI-driven Solution to Securing the Systems with User Demands', Invited talk, Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2022 'A future aspect of the user centric security solution', Keynote, IEEE ASSIC, India.
2021 'User-centric Data Security in an Internet of Medical Things Workflow', Invited talk, IEEE WF-5G, Montreal, Canada.
2021 'Software-Defined Perimeter: Next-Generation Solution to Securing the Systems with User Demands', Keynote, ICICC 2021, India.
2021 'Decision Tree for the Adaptive Authentication in the IoT', Invited talk, Central Michigan University, USA.
2020 'User-centric Security in IoT-Edge Environment', Invited talk, NIT Meghalaya, India.
2020 'Blockchain Portability for the Consumer Devices', Invited talk, University of Wolverhampton, USA.
2019 'IoT Workflow Orchestration Application and Cyber Defence', Keynote, ICCAN 2019, Bhubaneswar, India.
2019 'IoT Workflow Orchestration Application and Cyber Defence', Keynote, ICICC 2019, Bhubaneswar, India.
2019 'AI for Security and its Future', Invited talk, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India.
2018 'Blockchain for the Edge Computing', Invited talk, La Trobe University, Australia.
2018 'Blockchain for IoT', Invited talk, TCS R&D, India.
2018 'Integration of Distributed Computing and Cyber Security', Keynote, ICIT 2018, Bhubaneswar, India.
2018 'IoT Systems and its Future in Cyber Security', Invited talk, Newcastle University, UK.
2018 'Blockchain for resource constraints distributed systems', Invited talk, University of Leeds, UK.
2018 'Advances in Cyber Security in computing perspective', University Level Talk, NIT Rourkela, India.
2017 'Advances in Computing Research', Panel Keynote, IEEE SmartCloud 2017, New York, USA.