Biography

MD ISRAFIL BISWAS is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to an Associate Professor in the US) in the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire (UoB). He is teaching both undergraduate and Postgraduate units, Israfil is a unit coordinator of an MSc Unit, an Apprenticeship Program Lead for Cybersecurity, and leading several academic and industrial research projects. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics, at Manchester Metropolitan University (Manmet). Dr. Israfil finished his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, UK in Communication Engineering, and among other research outputs, it has led to an Internet-Draft at IETF. He was an active member of Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry. He is supervising several PhDs including many BSc and MSc projects in the fields of cybersecurity, IoT, AI, machine learning, Data Science, and communications networks. Israfil is an active and renowned personal in networks and security, initiated and led the advanced cybersecurity testbed at Manmet, he has published several high-impact articles in top Journals and conferences, contributed to IETF standardisation, and published patents in collaboration with academic and industrial partners.  He has obtained funding from several institutions as a PI including The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and Digital Futures 2010 at Horizon Digital Economy Research UK, lead innovator and lead for several international research projects. 

Israfil worked with the EPSRC-funded large ‘SPHERE IRC’ for the ‘Internet of Things (IoT) Networking’ project at the University of Bristol and was involved in designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining two large projects simultaneously. In 2018, Dr. Israfil worked as a Research Engineer for the development of the ‘Data to Action’ project at British Telecom (BT) for an end-to-end IoT management framework and published patents with BT. He was a Research Associate for several multimillion projects at Ulster University. Dr. Israfil also worked as a Research Fellow at the City University London on multimillion projects in collaboration with many industrial partners including The European Microsoft Innovation Center. Dr. Israfil also worked as a Visiting Lecturer for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students at the School of Informatics at the City University London. He has chaired several international conferences, and workshops and has delivered many invited and keynote talks across the globe, Israfil is also a reviewer and editor of many well-reputed journals and conferences. In the past, Israfil was a lecturer in the school of engineering and course instructor for the Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA at the American International University, Bangladesh.

Memberships:

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Member, Membership No.97853905

• ERDF GM Cyber Foundry, Member 

• Bangladesh Computer Society, BCS, Status: Member, Membership No. M 01246.

• Institute of Engineers Bangladesh, IEB, Status: Member, Membership No. M/23119.

Awards/Scholarships/Project Contributions:

• • EADS Astrium UK Ltd,

    Project: Design a modular for Satellite Communication. 

• The European Commission IST Project “SatSix”, 

    Project: Developing new protocols for Satellite Networks and Multimedia Communications.  

• University of Aberdeen College of Physical Sciences,

           Project: Investigation of Transport Protocols, Congestion Window Validation (CWV). 

• Horizon Research hub at the University of Nottingham, 

   Project: PsychoFIZZ – Real-time Monitoring of Physiological Traits.   

• European Space Agency (ESA),

   Project: HLS-MAC-Study.

• The European Commission IoT@work 

   Project: EU F7 Internet of Things project IoT@Work (www.iot-at-work.eu).     

• InvestNI 

   Project: Digital Infrastructure.

•    British Telecom (BT) Ireland Innovation Center (BTIIC)

Project: Internet of Things for Data to Action

Training:

1. Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA-1: Networking Basics, 2006 from “Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)”.

2. Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA-2: Routers and Routing Basics, 2006 from “Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)”.

3. Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA-3: Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing, 2006 from “Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)”.

4. Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA-4: Wide Area Networks (WAN) Technologies, 2007 from “Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)”.

Selective Workshop Organisation Committee Member and Participant: 

1. CIAN NFS Site Visit, Columbia University, New York, 4-6 May 2016.

2. IU-ATC , Adastral Park, BT, Ipswich 2-4 July 2014

3. IoT@Work Implementers' Workshop & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, Sept. 2013.  

4.IoT@Work Implementers' Demonstration & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, April 2012.