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Dr Mamoona Asghar

PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
E: mamoona.asghar@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Dr. Mamoona Asghar has been working as a Lecturer (Above the Bar) in the School of Computer Science, University of Galway, since January 05, 2022. She has ~18 years of lecturing and R&D experience in Ireland, UK, and Pakistan since 2006.

She received her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. 2013. Her Ph.D. was funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.

During her academic appointment at the public-sector university of Pakistan (IUB), she received a Competitive Research Grant (No.:6282/Punjab/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016) awarded by the Higher HEC, Pakistan under the National Research Program for Universities (2016).  

In 2017, she received a prestigious Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSC) Career-FIT International Fellowship for 03 years at the Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT), Athlone, Ireland, for the project titled "Distributed analytics for a large urban CCTV system". This award was supported by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 713654 under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme funded by the European Union. This MSC fellowship was a collaborative project with an industry partner, Evercam Ltd, Dublin. She was awarded an MSCA Postdoc fellowship grant (Project: SISSViD) in 2023 for mentoring a postdoc at the School of Computer Science, Galway, for a duration of 2 years.

She has successfully supervised 06 PhD students to completion in Ireland and Pakistan. She is a recipient of 02 President Doctoral Scholarship (PDS) grants to supervise PhD students (2019 and 2020) at TUS, Athlone Campus, Ireland. Currently, she is supervising 04 PhD students under COSE-2022, Hardiman-2023, Chinese Postdoctoral Scholarship 2023, and Irish Research Council (IRC) Early Career Award-2024 at the University of Galway. 

She has published several indexed journal articles along with numerous international conference papers. She is actively involved in reviewing research articles for renowned journals/conferences and has participated as a session chair. She is also an IEEE Senior Member. 

Research Interests

Cyber security: Cryptology, Malware and Intrusion detection systems, Social Engineering (DeepFakes, Dark Patterns), Threat Modeling, Blockchain, Privacy Engineering, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning (Computer Vision), Object and Event detection from visual data, Supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning, Fuzzy Systems, Ontology.
Others: Visual Data Processing / Analysis, Video Encoder Systems, Video Quality Analytics, Edge Analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) (smart systems).

Research Projects

  Project Start Date End Date
SISSViD 25-OCT-23 24-OCT-25
Proactive Cyber Defence 08-JAN-23 04-JUL-24

Contract Researchers

  Researcher Name Project Role Funding Body
Dr. Amna Shifa SISSViD MSCA Postdoc Fellow EU
Durre Zehra Syeda Proactive Cyber Defence Research Assistant Millennium Fund (NUIG)

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2019) 'Efficient Lightweight Encryption Algorithm for Smart Video Applications'
Amna Shifa and Mamoona Naveed Asghar and Naila Batool and Martin Fleury (2019) 'Efficient Lightweight Encryption Algorithm for Smart Video Applications'. CoRR, abs/1901.08344 [Details]
(2020) 'Skin detection and lightweight encryption for privacy protection in real-time surveillance applications'
Amna Shifa and Muhammad Babar Imtiaz and Mamoona Naveed Asghar and Martin Fleury (2020) 'Skin detection and lightweight encryption for privacy protection in real-time surveillance applications'. Image and Vision Computing, 94 [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Survey on Video Security: Examining Threats, Challenges, and Future Trends'
Ali Asghar, Amna Shifa, Mamoona Naveed Asghar (2024) 'Survey on Video Security: Examining Threats, Challenges, and Future Trends'. Computers, Materials \& Continua, 80 (3):3591-3635 [DOI] [Details]
(2024) 'Pixel tampering detection in encrypted surveillance videos on resource-constrained devices'
Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo and Lee, Brian and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed (2024) 'Pixel tampering detection in encrypted surveillance videos on resource-constrained devices'. Internet of Things, 25 [Details]
(2024) 'Dynamic Malware Classification and API Categorisation of Windows Portable Executable Files Using Machine Learning'
Durre Zehra, Syeda and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed (2024) 'Dynamic Malware Classification and API Categorisation of Windows Portable Executable Files Using Machine Learning'. Applied Sciences, 14 (3) [Details]
(2023) 'Privacy preserved video summarization of road traffic events for IoT smart cities'
Tahir, Mehwish and Qiao, Yuansong and Kanwal, Nadia and Lee, Brian and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed (2023) 'Privacy preserved video summarization of road traffic events for IoT smart cities'. Cryptography, 7 (1) [Details]
(2023) 'FireNet-v2: Improved Lightweight Fire Detection Model for Real-Time IoT Applications'
Shees, Anwer and Ansari, Mohammad Samar and Varshney, Akshay and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Kanwal, Nadia (2023) 'FireNet-v2: Improved Lightweight Fire Detection Model for Real-Time IoT Applications'. Procedia Computer Science, 218 :2233-2242 [Details]
(2023) 'Real-time Event-driven Road Traffic Monitoring System using CCTV Video Analytics'
Tahir, M and Qiao, Y and Kanwal, N and Lee, B and Asghar, M.N. (2023) 'Real-time Event-driven Road Traffic Monitoring System using CCTV Video Analytics'. IEEE Access, 11 [Details]
(2023) 'Network-Coding-Enabled and QoS-Aware Message Delivery for Wireless Sensor Networks'
Abdullah, Saima and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Fleury, Martin and Mushtaq, Zaigham (2023) 'Network-Coding-Enabled and QoS-Aware Message Delivery for Wireless Sensor Networks'. Wireless Personal Communications, [Details]
(2022) 'DEMIS: A Threat Model for Selectively Encrypted Visual Surveillance Data'
Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Lee, Brian (2022) 'DEMIS: A Threat Model for Selectively Encrypted Visual Surveillance Data'. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.14622, [Details]
(2022) 'VQProtect: Lightweight Visual Quality Protection for Error-Prone Selectively Encrypted Video Streaming'
Gillani, Syeda Maria and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Shifa, Amna and Abdullah, Saima and Kanwal, Nadia and Fleury, Martin (2022) 'VQProtect: Lightweight Visual Quality Protection for Error-Prone Selectively Encrypted Video Streaming'. Entropy, 24 (6) [Details]
(2022) 'A survey of modern deep learning based object detection models'
Zaidi, Syed Sahil Abbas and Ansari, Mohammad Samar and Aslam, Asra and Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona and Lee, Brian (2022) 'A survey of modern deep learning based object detection models'. Digital Signal Processing, 126 [Details]
(2022) 'SecureCam: Selective Detection and Encryption enabled Application for Dynamic Camera Surveillance Videos'
Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Kanwal, Nadia and Fleury, Martin and Lee, Brian (2022) 'SecureCam: Selective Detection and Encryption enabled Application for Dynamic Camera Surveillance Videos'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, [Details]
(2021) 'Analysis of iterative process for nauru voting system'
Gohar, N. and Niaz, S. and Asghar, M. N. and Noor, and S. (2021) 'Analysis of iterative process for nauru voting system'. Intelligent Automation \& Soft Computing, 28 (1):241-259 [Details]
(2021) 'A survey of modern deep learning based object detection models'
Zaidi, Syed Sahil Abbas and Ansari, Mohammad Samar and Aslam, Asra and Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona and Lee, Brian (2021) 'A survey of modern deep learning based object detection models'. Digital Signal Processing, 126 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'An Energy-Aware, Highly Available, and Fault-Tolerant Method for Reliable IoT Systems'
Bukhsh, Muhammad and Abdullah, Saima and Rahman, Abdul and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Arshad, Humaira and Alabdulatif, Abdulatif (2021) 'An Energy-Aware, Highly Available, and Fault-Tolerant Method for Reliable IoT Systems'. IEEE Access, 9 :145363-145381 [Details]
(2020) 'Real-Time, Content-Based Communication Load Reduction in the Internet of Multimedia Things'
Tanseer, Iffrah and Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Iqbal, Ayesha and Tanseer, Faryal and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Real-Time, Content-Based Communication Load Reduction in the Internet of Multimedia Things'. Applied Sciences, 10 (3) [Details]
(2020) 'SLEPX: an efficient lightweight cipher for visual protection of scalable HEVC extension'
Shah, Rizwan Ali and Asghar, Mamoona N and Abdullah, Saima and Kanwal, Nadia and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'SLEPX: an efficient lightweight cipher for visual protection of scalable HEVC extension'. IEEE Access, 8 :187784-187807 [Details]
(2020) 'MuLViS: multi-level encryption based security system for surveillance videos'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona N and Fleury, Martin and Kanwal, Nadia and Ansari, Mohammad S and Lee, Brian and Herbst, Marco and Qiao, Yuansong (2020) 'MuLViS: multi-level encryption based security system for surveillance videos'. IEEE Access, 8 :177131-177155 [Details]
(2020) 'Fuzzy-logic threat classification for multi-level selective encryption over real-time video streams'
Shifa, Amna and Naveed Asghar, Mamoona and Ahmed, Adeel and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Fuzzy-logic threat classification for multi-level selective encryption over real-time video streams'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 11 :5369-5397 [Details]
(2020) 'Preserving chain-of-evidence in surveillance videos for authentication and trust-enabled sharing'
Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Ansari, Mohammad Samar and Fleury, Martin and Lee, Brian and Herbst, Marco and Qiao, Yuansong (2020) 'Preserving chain-of-evidence in surveillance videos for authentication and trust-enabled sharing'. IEEE Access, 8 :153413-153424 [Details]
(2020) 'MuLViS: Multi-level encryption based security system for surveillance videos'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona N and Fleury, Martin and Kanwal, Nadia and Ansari, Mohammad S and Lee, Brian and Herbst, Marco and Qiao, Yuansong (2020) 'MuLViS: Multi-level encryption based security system for surveillance videos'. IEEE Access, 8 :177131-177155 [Details]
(2020) 'Real-time, content-based communication load reduction in the internet of multimedia things'
Tanseer, Iffrah and Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Iqbal, Ayesha and Tanseer, Faryal and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Real-time, content-based communication load reduction in the internet of multimedia things'. Applied Sciences, 10 (3) [Details]
(2020) 'Fuzzy-logic threat classification for multi-level selective encryption over real-time video streams'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Ahmed, Adeel and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Fuzzy-logic threat classification for multi-level selective encryption over real-time video streams'. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, :1-29 [Details]
(2020) 'An energy-efficient message scheduling algorithm with joint routing mechanism at network layer in internet of things environment'
Abdullah, Saima and Asghar, Mamoona N and Ashraf, Mashavia and Abbas, Naila (2020) 'An energy-efficient message scheduling algorithm with joint routing mechanism at network layer in internet of things environment'. Wireless Personal Communications, 111 (3):1821-1835 [Details]
(2020) 'Skin detection and lightweight encryption for privacy protection in real-time surveillance applications'
Shifa, Amna and Imtiaz, Muhammad Babar and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Skin detection and lightweight encryption for privacy protection in real-time surveillance applications'. Image and Vision Computing, 94 [Details]
(2020) 'Towards estimation of emotions from eye pupillometry with low-cost devices'
Rafique, Sidra and Kanwal, Nadia and Karamat, Irfan and Asghar, Mamoona N and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'Towards estimation of emotions from eye pupillometry with low-cost devices'. IEEE Access, 9 :5354-5370 [Details]
(2020) 'SLEPX: An efficient lightweight cipher for visual protection of scalable HEVC extension'
Shah, Rizwan Ali and Asghar, Mamoona N and Abdullah, Saima and Kanwal, Nadia and Fleury, Martin (2020) 'SLEPX: An efficient lightweight cipher for visual protection of scalable HEVC extension'. IEEE Access, 8 :187784-187807 [Details]
(2019) 'Lightweight cipher for H. 264 videos in the Internet of multimedia things with encryption space ratio diagnostics'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Noor, Salma and Gohar, Neelam and Fleury, Martin (2019) 'Lightweight cipher for H. 264 videos in the Internet of multimedia things with encryption space ratio diagnostics'. Sensors, 19 (5) [Details]
(2019) 'Effectiveness of Crypto-Transcoding for H.264/AVC and HEVC Video Bit-streams'
Shah, Rizwan Ali and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Abdullah, Saima and Fleury, Martin and Gohar, Neelam (2019) 'Effectiveness of Crypto-Transcoding for H.264/AVC and HEVC Video Bit-streams'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019 [Details]
(2019) 'Data Driven Approach for Eye Disease Classification with Machine Learning'
Malik, Sadaf and Kanwal, Nadia and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Sadiq, Muhammad Ali and Karamat, Irfan and Fleury, Martin (2019) 'Data Driven Approach for Eye Disease Classification with Machine Learning'. Applied Sciences, 9 (14) [Details]
(2019) 'Visual Surveillance within the EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Technology Perspective'
Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Kanwal, Nadia and Lee, Brian and Fleury, Martin and Herbst, Marco and Qiao, Yuansong (2019) 'Visual Surveillance within the EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Technology Perspective'. IEEE ACCESS, 7 (1):111709-111726 [Details]
(2019) 'Effectiveness of crypto-transcoding for H. 264/AVC and HEVC video bit-streams'
Shah, Rizwan A and Asghar, Mamoona N and Abdullah, Saima and Fleury, Martin and Gohar, Neelam (2019) 'Effectiveness of crypto-transcoding for H. 264/AVC and HEVC video bit-streams'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78 :21455-21484 [Details]
(2019) 'Lightweight Cipher for H.264 Videos in the Internet of Multimedia Things with Encryption Space Ratio Diagnostics'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Noor, Salma and Gohar, Neelam and Fleury, Martin (2019) 'Lightweight Cipher for H.264 Videos in the Internet of Multimedia Things with Encryption Space Ratio Diagnostics'. Sensors, 19 (5) [Details]
(2019) 'Efficient Lightweight Encryption Algorithm for Smart Video Applications'
Shifa, Amna and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Batool, Naila and Fluery, Martin (2019) 'Efficient Lightweight Encryption Algorithm for Smart Video Applications'. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.08344, [Details]
(2018) 'Extension of grounding mechanism for abstract words: computational methods insights'
Rasheed, Nadia and Amin, Shamsudin HM and Sultana, Umbrin and Bhatti, Abdul Rauf and Asghar, Mamoona N (2018) 'Extension of grounding mechanism for abstract words: computational methods insights'. Artificial Intelligence Review, 50 (3):467-494 [Details]
(2018) 'Trace model for cyclic behavior in wireless LANS'
Bukhsh, S and Abdullah, S and Asghar, Mamoona Naveed (2018) 'Trace model for cyclic behavior in wireless LANS'. Pakistan Journal of Science, [Details]
(2018) 'Intelligent Video Encoder Selection System for Smart Devices'
Ejaz, MA and Asghar*, M.N. and Ahmed, A. and Munawar, S. and Javed, M.S. and Abdullah, and S. (2018) 'Intelligent Video Encoder Selection System for Smart Devices'. Pakistan Journal of Science, 70 (2):177-186 [Details]
(2018) 'Joint Crypto-Stego Scheme for Enhanced Image Protection with Nearest-Centroid Clustering'
Shifa, Amna and Sher Afgan, Muhammad and Asghar, Mamoona N. and Fleury, Martin and Memon, Imran and Abdu and Abdullah, Saima and Rashid, Nadia (2018) 'Joint Crypto-Stego Scheme for Enhanced Image Protection with Nearest-Centroid Clustering'. IEEE ACCESS, 6 :16189-16206 [Details]
(2018) 'Joint crypto-stego scheme for enhanced image protection with nearest-centroid clustering'
Shifa, Amna and Afgan, Muhammad S and Asghar, Mamoona N and Fleury, Martin and Memon, Imran and Abdullah, Saima and Rasheed, Nadia (2018) 'Joint crypto-stego scheme for enhanced image protection with nearest-centroid clustering'. IEEE Access, 6 :16189-16206 [Details]
(2017) 'Automated Detection of early Tropical Cyclones Formation in Satellite Images'
Bajwa, IS and Asghar, MN and Naeem, MA (2017) 'Automated Detection of early Tropical Cyclones Formation in Satellite Images'. Pakistan journal of science, 69 (4):417-421 [Details]
(2017) 'Zimmermann Real-Time Transport Protocol (ZRTP) For Hierarchical Keys Generation of Encrypted Scalable Video Streaming'
Asghar, MN and Majid, H and Kausar, R and Bajwa, IS and Fleury, M (2017) 'Zimmermann Real-Time Transport Protocol (ZRTP) For Hierarchical Keys Generation of Encrypted Scalable Video Streaming'. Pakistan Journal of Science, 69 (1) [Details]
(2017) 'Interoperable conditional access with video selective encryption for portable devices'
Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Fleury, Martin and Makki, Sohail (2017) 'Interoperable conditional access with video selective encryption for portable devices'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76 :13139-13152 [Details]
(2017) 'Automated detection of early tropical cyclones formation in satellite images'
Bajwa, Imran Sarwar (2017) 'Automated detection of early tropical cyclones formation in satellite images'. Pakistan Journal of Science, 69 (4) [Details]
(2017) 'Learning-based improved seeded region growing algorithm for brain tumor identification'
Bajwa, IS and Asghar, MN and Naeem, A (2017) 'Learning-based improved seeded region growing algorithm for brain tumor identification'. Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 54 (2):127-133 [Details]
(2017) 'Transparent encryption with scalable video communication: Lower-latency, CABAC-based schemes'
Asghar, Mamoona N and Kousar, Rukhsana and Majid, Hooriya and Fleury, Martin (2017) 'Transparent encryption with scalable video communication: Lower-latency, CABAC-based schemes'. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 45 :122-136 [Details]
(2016) 'Computer Assisted 2-D Graphical Software Modelling using BSP Tree Algorithm'
Bajwa, Imran Sarwar (2016) 'Computer Assisted 2-D Graphical Software Modelling using BSP Tree Algorithm'. Bahria University Journal of Information \& Communication Technologies (BUJICT), 9 (special is) [Details]
(2015) 'Sufficient encryption based on entropy coding syntax elements of H. 264/SVC'
Asghar, Mamoona N and Ghanbari, Mohammed and Fleury, Martin and Reed, Martin J (2015) 'Sufficient encryption based on entropy coding syntax elements of H. 264/SVC'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74 :10215-10241 [Details]
(2014) 'Confidentiality of a selectively encrypted H. 264 coded video bit-stream'
Asghar, Mamoona N and Ghanbari, Mohammed and Fleury, Martin and Reed, Martin J (2014) 'Confidentiality of a selectively encrypted H. 264 coded video bit-stream'. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 25 (2):487-498 [Details]
(2014) 'Sufficient encryption based on entropy coding syntax elements of H.264/SVC'
Asghar, Mamoona N. and Ghanbari, Mohammed and Fleury, Martin and Reed, Martin J. (2014) 'Sufficient encryption based on entropy coding syntax elements of H.264/SVC'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 73 (3) [Details]
(2013) 'An Efficient Security System for CABAC bin-strings of H.264/SVC'
Asghar, Mamoona and Ghanbari, Mohammed (2013) 'An Efficient Security System for CABAC bin-strings of H.264/SVC'. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 23 (3):425-437 [Details]
(2012) 'MIKEY for keys management of H. 264 scalable video coded layers'
Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Ghanbari, Mohammad (2012) 'MIKEY for keys management of H. 264 scalable video coded layers'. Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, 24 (2):107-116 [Details]
(2012) 'Key management protocols for secure wireless multimedia services: A review'
Naveed Asghar, Mamoona and Fleury, Martin and Ghanbari, Mohammed (2012) 'Key management protocols for secure wireless multimedia services: A review'. Recent Patents on Telecommunication (Discontinued), 1 (1):41-53 [Details]
(2012) 'An efficient security system for CABAC bin-strings of H. 264/SVC'
Asghar, Mamoona Naveed and Ghanbari, Mohammad (2012) 'An efficient security system for CABAC bin-strings of H. 264/SVC'. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, 23 (3):425-437 [Details]
(2012) 'Key Management Protocols for Secure Wireless Multimedia Services: A Review'
Asghar, Mamoona N. and Ghanbari, Mohammed and Fleury, Martin and Reed, Martin J. (2012) 'Key Management Protocols for Secure Wireless Multimedia Services: A Review'. Recent Patents on Telecommunication, 1 (1):41-53 [Details]
(2010) 'SVS -A Secure Scheme for Video Streaming Using SRTP AES and DH'
Asghar, Mamoona and Sadaf, Saima and Eidi, Kamran and Naseem, Asia and Naweed, Shahid (2010) 'SVS -A Secure Scheme for Video Streaming Using SRTP AES and DH'. European Journal of Scientific Research, 40 (2):177-188 [Details]
(2006) 'MIKEY and SRTP Integration for Multicast Streaming'
Asghar, Mamoona and Sharmin, Muiza and Baig, Shiraz and Javed, Qaisar and Rashid, Khalid (2006) 'MIKEY and SRTP Integration for Multicast Streaming'. European Journal of Scientific Research, 14 (2):509-516 [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2024) IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI)
Ramneet Jaggi; Muhammad Naveed Abbas; Jawad Manzoor; Rahul Dwivedi; Mamoona Naveed Asghar (2024) Turbulence-driven Autonomous Stock Trading using Deep Reinforcement Learning IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI) [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2024 IRC Early-Career Award for PhD Scholar Irish Research Council
2024 ResNRJwater: Resilient energy supply for and from water and wastewater infrastructures in NWE INTERREG North West Europe - European Union
2023 Hardiman Ph.D. Scholarship University of Galway
2022 MSCA Postdoc Fellowship Marie Curie Actions
2022 COSE Strategic Millennium Fund University of Galway
2020 Feasibility Study Grant Enterprise Ireland
2020 Presidential Doctoral Scheme (AIT-Ireland) Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Ireland
2020 Best Paper Award IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech)
2019 Presidential Doctoral Scheme (AIT-Ireland) Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Ireland
2018 Marie Sklodowska Curie Career-Fit Research Fellow (MF-2018-0179) Marie Curie Actions and Enterprise Ireland
2016 Competitive Research Grant (Govt. of Pakistan) Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
2012 Travel Grant IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant
2009 Oversees Ph.D. Scholarship (Govt. of Pakistan) Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
iTag Member 01-AUG-22 / 10-FEB-24
IEEE Senior Member Participation in IEEE research activities 01-JAN-21 /

Patents

  Patent Number Title Granted
PCT/EP2021/064873 Video Storage System

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
IEEE Blockchain Conference TPC 01-JAN-24 /
The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) Workshop Chair and TPC 01-JAN-24 /
University of Sanctuary Academic Mentoring Programme Mentor 01-NOV-23 /
Athena Swan Committee Member 03-APR-22 /
School Internatonalisation Committee Member 01-FEB-22 /

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
National University of Ireland, Galway Lecturer (Above the Bar) 05-JAN-22 /
Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone Campus, Ireland Lecturer 01-SEP-21 / 04-JAN-22
Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Ireland Marie-Sklodowska Curie Career-Fit International Research Fellow 26-JUN-18 / 31-AUG-21
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Punjab, Pakistan Lecturer and Assistant Professor 04-SEP-06 / 22-JUN-18

Languages

  Language
English

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2023 University of Galway Pg Cert. in Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning
2013 University of Essex, Colchester, UK PhD Computing & Electronic Systems
2006 International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. MS(CS) Computer Science (Network Security)
2003 The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. BS(CS) Computer Science

Community Engagement

  Title Type From / To
Outreach iTag member for Cyber forum 01-AUG-22 / 10-FEB-24
Board Membership Sanctuary Academic Mentoring Programme Committee 25-OCT-23 /

Other Activities

  Description

Community outreach as an iTag cyber forum member. Presented a talk "Overview of Threat Landscape" in Atlantec 2023.

External Examiner in the School of Computing and Software Engineering, Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus.

IEEE Senior Member

Programme Director for Springboard-funded PG Diploma in Cybersecurity and Software Development since 2022.

Teaching Interests

Cybersecurity
Computer Science
Data Visualisation

Current Postgraduate Students (Taught)

  Name Degree Primary Supervisor
Philip Crowe Msc Y
Evan Liu Msc Y
Anuoluwapo Oguntayo Msc Y
Stuart Daly Msc Y

Recent Postgraduate Students

  Graduation Name Degree Primary Supervisor
2021 Francois Devilez Msc Y
2021 Sofie Van Acker Msc Y
2024 Mehwish Tahir PhD in Computer Science Y
2021 Muhammad Bukhsh PhD in Computer Science
2019 Amna Shifa PhD in Computer Science Y
2021 Rizwan Ali Shah PhD in Computer Science Y
2023 Syeda Maria Gillani PhD in Computer Science Y
2021 Shane Cosgrove Msc Y
2022 Shein Sopariwala Msc Y
2019 Ifeoluwapo Aribilola Msc Y
2022 Nitya Saxena Msc Y
2023 Ramneet Jaggi Msc Y
2023 Chippy Mathew Msc Y
2023 Basabdatta Chaudhury Msc Y
2023 Neha Verma Msc Y
2023 Akshat Shrivastava Msc Y
2023 Kelechi Ebereonwu Msc Y
2023 Royce Lobo Msc Y

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2022 Data Analysis and Visulaisation CT5184 PgCert in AI for Professionals
2022 Cybersecurity Essentials CT5172 PDip in Cybersecurity and Software Development
2024 Malware and Intrusion Detection CT5194 MSc in Computer Science (Adaptive Cybersecurity)
2023 Societal impact of AI and Cybersecurity CT5190 MSc in Computer Science (Adaptive Cybersecurity)
2024 Malware and Intrusion Detection CT5194 MSc in Computer Science (Adaptive Cybersecurity)
2023 Object Oriented Programming II CT2102 BA-IT

Internal Collaborators

  Name Description of Collaboration
Dr. Ronan Kennedy
Collaborator
Dr. John Bogue
Co-Supervisor
Dr. Saeed Alsamhi
PI
Dr. Malika Bendechache
Co-Supervisor

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
Lippeverband, Germany Lippeverband GERMANY
Lead on INTERREG Project.
Wesley O'brien Komply Pvt. LTd. IRELAND
Secondment