Digital Right Protection of Relational Databases
Current Position
Working as Assistant Professor, Department of Cybersecurity, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, KSA.
Education
PhD Computer Science (2008-2012)
Thesis title: Digital Right Protection of Relational Databases
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
MS Computer Science (2006-2008)
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Awards and Honors
HEC Best paper award 2012
HEC Best Paper Award 2013/14
Member of the RPMS project which won:
World Summit Youth Award (WSYA), Mexico 2009.
Gold Medal in Research project Category at COMPPEC 2010 for RPMS Project (http://nexginrc.org/Projects/ProjectDetail.aspx?pageID=15).
Silver Medal in Research Category at P@SHA ICT Awards 2009 for RPMS Project.
Publications
Journal papers:
1. Alghamdi, Ahmed S., Talha Imran, Khalid T. Mursi, Atika Ejaz, Muhammad Kamran, and Abdullah Alamri. "A Vehicle Classification System for Intelligent Transport System using Machine Learning in Constrained Environment." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vlo. 14, no. 7, 2023. Impact factor
2. Alghamdi, Ahmed S; Saeed, Ammar; Kamran, Muhammad; Mursi, Khalid T; Almukadi, Wafa Sulaiman. A Novel Vehicle Classification Using Deep Feature Fusion and Genetic Algorithms. Electronics, vol. 12(2), pp.280, 2023. Impact factor
3. Kamran, Muhammad, and Ahmed Abdul-Aziz Almaghthawi. "Case-Based Reasoning Diagnostic System for Antenatal Research Database." International Journal of Online & Biomedical Engineering 18, no. 7, 2022. Impact factor
4. Alghamdi, A.S., Naz, S., Saeed, A., Al Solami, E., Kamran, M. and Alkatheiri, M.S. A Novel Database Watermarking Technique Using Blockchain as Trusted Third Party. CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA, 70(1), pp.1585-1601, 2022. Impact factor
5. Alhudhaif, A., Saeed, A., Imran, T., Kamran, M., Alghamdi, A.S., Aseeri, A.O. and Alsubai, S., 2022. A particle swarm optimization based deep learning model for vehicle classification. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 40(1), pp.223-35. Impact factor
6. Javaid, A., Rafiq, A., Rehan, M., Rafique, M.M., Kamran, M. and Munir, E.U., Clustering-cum-Handover Management Scheme for improved Internet access in high-density mobile wireless environments. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 30, p.100483, 2021. Impact factor
7. Khan, W., Ahmad, A., Qamar, A., Kamran, M. and Altaf, M., SpoofCatch: A Client-Side Protection Tool Against Phishing Attacks. IT Professional, 23(2), pp.65-74, 2021. Impact factor
8. Fatima, M., Nisar, M.W., Rashid, J., Kim, J., Kamran, M. and Hussain, A., 2021. A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds. Sensors, 21(22), p.7647, 2021. Impact factor
9. Al Solami, E., Kamran, M., Saeed Alkatheiri, M., Rafiq, F. and Alghamdi, A.S., 2020. Fingerprinting of Relational Databases for Stopping the Data Theft. Electronics, 9(7), p.1093, 2020. Impact factor
10. Jan Badshah, Majed Mohaia Alhaisoni, Nadir Shah, and Muhammad Kamran, Cache Servers Placement Based on Important Switches for SDN-Based ICN, Electronics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2020. Impact factor
11. Wilayat Khan, Muhammad Kamran, Syed Rameez Naqvi, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Ahmed S. Alghamdi, and Eesa Alsolamian, Formal Verification of Hardware Components in Critical Systems, Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing, vol. 2020, pp. 1-15, 2020. Impact factor
12. Waqar Mehmood, Hassan Jari, Ali Tahir, Waqar Aslam, Muhammad Kamran, UCDiff: Difference Detection in Use-Case models of HealthCare System, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 2369-2377, 2020. Impact factor
13. Samra Zafar, Muhammad Kamran, Xiaopeng.Hu, Intrusion-Miner: A Hybrid Classifier for Intrusion Detection using Data Mining, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), vol. 10, no. 4, 2019. ISI Indexed
14. Naz, Farah, Muhammad Kamran, Waqar Mehmood, Wilayat Khan, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri, Ahmed S. Alghamdi, and Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Automatic identification of sarcasm in tweets and customer reviews, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 6815-6828, 2019. Impact factor
15. Jan Badshah, Nadir Shah, Muhammad Kamran, S. A. Abid, An improved method to deploy Cache Servers in Software Defined Network-based Information Centric Networking for Big Data, Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, vol. 17, no.2, pp. 255-277, 2019. Impact factor
16. Wilayat Khan, Muhammad Kamran, Aakash Ahmad, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Abdelouahid Derhab, Formal Analysis of Language-based Android Security Using Theorem Proving Approach, IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 16550-16560, 2019. Impact factor
17. M. Kamran, Ehsan Ullah Munir, On the Role of Optimization Algorithms in Ownership-Preserving Data Mining, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, Springer, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 151-164, 2018. Impact factor
18. Sumbal Riaz, Mehvish Fatima, M. Kamran, M. Wasif Nisar, Opinion mining on large scale data using sentiment analysis and k-means clustering, Cluster Computing, Springer, (In press), 2017. Impact factor
19. Annam Zafar, M. Kamran, Shafqat Ali Shad, M. Wasif Nisar, A Robust Missing Data Recovering Technique for Mobility Data Mining, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, vol. 31, no. 5-6, pp. 425-438, 2017. Impact factor
20. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, Ehsan Ullah Munir, and Samee U. Khan, A Reversible Watermarking Technique for Social Networks Datasets for Enabling Data Trust in Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 197-206, 2017. Impact factor
21. Saman Iftikhar, Sharifullah Khan, Zahid Anwar, Muhammad Kamran, GenInfoGuard - A Robust and Distortion-free Watermarking Technique for Genetic Data, PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-22, 2015. Impact factor
22. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, and Zahid Anwar, A Survey on Reversible Watermarking Techniques for Relational Databases, Security and Communication Networks, vol. 8, no. 15, pp. 2580-2603, 2015. Impact factor
23. Saman Iftikhar, M. Kamran, and Zahid Anwar, RRW - A Robust and Reversible Watermarking Technique for Relational Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1132-1145, 2015. Impact factor
24. M. Kamran, Sabah Suhail, and Muddassar Farooq, A Robust, Distortion Minimizing Technique for Watermarking Relational Databases Using Once-for-all Usability Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2694-2707, 2013. Impact factor
25. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, A Formal Usability Constraints Model for Ownership Protection of Outsourced Datasets, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1061-1072, 2013. Impact factor
26. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, An Information-Preserving Watermarking Scheme for Right Protection of EMR Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1950-1962, 2012. Impact factor
Conference papers:
1. Saman Iftikhar, Zahid Anwar, M. Kamran, A Novel Robust Fingerprinting Technique for Digital Data based on Genetic Algorithm, HONET, 2014.
2. M. Kamran and Muddassar Farooq, Providing Harmless Ownership Protection for Shared Patient Data, International ehap Conference, 2012.
3. J. Afridi, M. Kamran, H. Irshad, S. Farooq, and M. Farooq, Use of Clinical Decision Support System on Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) of the Medical Expert, International ehap Conference, 2010.
4. Farrukh Shahzad, A. Rauf Baig, Sohail Masood, Muhammad Kamran, and Nawazish Naveed, Opposition-Based Particle Swarm Optimization with Velocity Clamping (OVCPSO), book chapter in Springer Book Series "Advances in Intelligent & Soft Computing", pp. 339-348, 2009.
5. H Irshad, M. Kamran, AB Siddiqui, A Hussain, Image Fusion Using Computational Intelligence: A Survey, in Second International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, pp. 128-132, 2009.
Technical Reports
1. An Optimized Information-Preserving Relational Database Watermarking Scheme for Ownership Protection of Medical Data 2012.
https://sites.google.com/site/kamranhomepage/research#TOC-Technical-Reports:
2. Ownership-preserving Data Mining: A Formal Usability Constraints Model for Watermarking of Outsourced Datasets 2011.
https://sites.google.com/site/kamranhomepage/research#TOC-Technical-Reports:
Research Projects
Stopping the data theft: Tracing the Guilty Agent
An intelligent framework for monitoring data security and versioning of relational databases using machine learning
Technical Services
Serving as the reviewer for prestigious journals like:
· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
· IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
· Cluster Computing, Springer
· IEEE Systems Journal
Serve in the program committee of the conference: International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
Served as the session co-chair in FIT 2016