Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
(Equivalent to an Associate Professor in the US)School of Computer Science and Technology University of Bedfordshire Luton LU1 3JU Office: C107a, Email: mdisrafil.biswas@beds.ac.uk
Current PhDs Students:
Nana Kwesi Arkoh Onumah
Abima Obim Abima
For PhD opportunities Contact :
https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/departments/computing/staff
My Research Interests (not limited but included):
Secure AI,
Internet of Things (IoT),
Cyber physical Systems,
Advanced Networking
Updates:
2025:
August:
Paper: Jayaweera Perera, Xiaohua Feng, Md Israfil Biswas and Lukasz Migacz, "Virtual Sandbox for Malware Analysis and Threat Detection", 2025 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) [Accepted].
Paper: Abima Obim Abima, Ali Kashif Bashir, Md Israfil Biswas, Muhammad Habib Ur Rehman, Mansoor Ihsan, and Tarek Ali, "A Survey on the GNSS Spoofing Attacks on UAV Swarms: Challenges, Current Solutions, and Future Directions", International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks 2025: ICCCNet, 2025 [Accepted]
2024:
November:
Programm Committee Member: 16th International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability, ICGS3-24, November, 2024
October:
Invited talk: "Securing the Internet of Things: Industrial applications", 6th Cybersecurity Education and Research Conference, Kuwait, October 2024.
Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Xiaohua Feng, Muhammad Habib Ur Rehman, Mansoor Ihsan, and Ali Kashif Bashir, "An Investigation on Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Thyroid Prediction", International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks 2024: ICCCNet October, 2024.
September:
Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Mohammed Al-Khalidi, and Ali Kashif Bashir, 'Understanding Human Behavior through Smart Home IoT Data Analysis: Patterns and Insights', EAI CloudComp 2024 - 13th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing, 9-10th September 2024, Luton, UK.
Senior Lecturer Appointment at the University of Bedfordshire (UoB)
PATAN Lead at the University of Bedfordshire (UoB)
Apprenticeship Lead at the University of Bedfordshire (UoB)
2023:
Invited talk: Digital Trust Authentication Strategies for IoT Environments, 5th Cybersecurity Education and Research Conference, Kuwait, October 2023.
October: In-person Delegate, Professional & Financial Services Data Access Innovation Lab: ESG, 10 October 2023 – 12 October 2023 10:00-17:30, https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/251ba820-372d-4ffc-b20d-07df8c806058/su…
May:
Paper: S. Fayyaz, M. Atif Ur Rehman, M. Salah Ud Din, M. I. Biswas, A. K. Bashir and B. -S. Kim, “Information-Centric Mobile Networks: A Survey, Discussion, and Future Research Directions,” in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 40328-40372, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3268775.
March:
Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Byung-Seo Kim, Ali Kashif Bashir, “An Analysis of Multicasting Optimisation Mechanisms for Intelligent Edge Computing with Low-Power and Lossy Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’23) 26–29 March 2023 // Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wireless Communications for Social Innovation
2022:
Session Chair: 2nd International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks- ICCCN’2022 (https://icccn.co.uk/), November 2022
Invited talk: Blockchain Based 6G Enabled Digital Twin Infrastructure, 4th Cybersecurity Education and Research Conference, Kuwait, October 2022
Paper: Al-Khalidi, Mohammed, Rabab Al-Zaidi, Ahmed M. Abubahia, Hari Mohan Pandey, Md Israfil Biswas, and Mohammad Hammoudeh. 2022. “Global IoT Mobility: A Path Based Forwarding Approach” Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 11, no. 3: 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan11030041
2021:
Patent: IPD Reference: A33866 – AN ARCHITECTURE FOR IOT ACTUATORS BASED ON SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT, British Telecom, 2021.
2019:
Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Philip Morrow and Sally McClean, “Evaluation of a Cloud Management System for Live Migrations”, Journal of Computer and Communications (JCC), Vol.7 No.11, November 2019.
Mamun Abu-Tair, Philip Perry, Philip Morrow, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Gerard Parr, Md Israfil Biswas, “Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks”, Journal of Phonetics, Special Issue: Optical Space Switches in Data Centers: Issues with Transport Protocols, Feb, 2019.
2018:
Session Chair: The 20th IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2018), Exeter, UK.
2017:
Paper: Md. Israfil Biswas, Mamun Abu-Tair, Philip Morrow, Sally I McClean, Bryan W. Scotney and Gerard P. Parr, “A Dynamic Approach of MIB Polling for Software Defined Monitoring, Journal of Computer and Communications (JCC), Special Issue on “Cloud Computing”, March 2017.
Seminar on Cloud Computing, Live Migration of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing, 23th January, 2017 (Monday), Organized By: IICT, BUET, Bangladesh
2016:
Project Lead Presentation: SDN security, CIAN NFS Site Visit, Columbia University, New York, 4-6 May 2016.
Md Israfil Biswas "Project Kelvin: The InvestNI Digital Innovation Infrastructure", BBC visit at Ulster University, 23 September 2016
2014:
Project Lead Presentation: Cloud Orchestration, IU-ATC, Adastral Park, BT, Ipswich 2-4 July 2014
2013:
Project Lead Presentation/Demo: Industrial IoT at Work Implementers’ Workshop & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, Sept. 2013.
Paper: Israfil Biswas, “An Investigation on Large Initial Window (IW)”, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, John Wiley & Sons, VOL.31 NO.3, March 2013, pp. 111-121.
2012:
Workshop: Industrial IoT at Work Implementers’ Demonstration Workshop & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, April 2012.
2011:
Internet-Draft/ Standardisation: G. Fairhurst, I. Biswas, “Updating TCP to support Variable-Rate Traffic”, IETF, Internet draft, 24 December 2011, URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-02.
Paper: I. Biswas and B. Walker, “An Intelligent Data Filtering Scheme for Real Time Monitoring of Physiological Traits,” International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2011, pp. 104-110. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.42013.
Md Israfil Biswas, "Next Generation Internet for Global Development", Bangladesh: an international development seminar May 2011, Aberdeen, UK, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ sustainable...development/ .../ Israfil%20Biswas.p
Other Podium Presentations/Seminars
Md Israfil Biswas, “Can a Large Initial Window Significantly Increase WEB Speed?” Engineering PostGraduate Students Research Symposium, 19 November 2010, Aberdeen, UK
Md Israfil Biswas, “What should we know about CWV?” ERG seminars, 28th November, 2009, Aberdeen, UK, http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/seminars.html
Md Israfil Biswas, “Does Multimedia in Internet need to slow down after an Idle? “Engineering PostGraduate Students Research Symposium ’09, 11 November 2009, Aberdeen, UK