Bio-sketch

Rasheed Hussain is a Senior Lecturer with the Smart Internet Lab and Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol, UK. He received his B.S. Engineering degree in Computer Software Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan in 2007, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hanyang University, South Korea from March 2015 to August 2015. He also worked as a guest researcher and consultant at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands from September 2015 till May 2016 and as Assistant Professor at Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia from June 2016 until December 2018. He also served as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Institute of Information Security and Cyber-Physical Systems as well as the head of Networks and Blockchain Lab at Innopolis University, Russia from December 2018 till December 2021. He also served as an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2018-2021) and currently serving another term as ACM Distinguished Speaker (2022-2026). 

Dr. Hussain authored and coauthored more than 120 papers in prestigious journals, conferences, book chapters, and newsletter articles. He is a senior member of IEEE, member ACM, and serves as an editorial board member for various journals including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access, IEEE Internet Initiative, Internet Technology Letters, Wiley, and serves as a reviewer for most of the IEEE transactions, Springer and Elsevier Journals. He also serves as both chair (IEEE ICC CISS 2021, IEEE CNS 2021,22, IEEE AICCSA 2023-24) and technical program committee member of various conferences including, but not limited to, IEEE VTC, IEEE VNC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICCVE, IEEE ICC, ICCCN, and so on. He is a certified trainer for the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) and a recipient of Netherland’s University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO). His research interests include Information, network, and cyber security, Future Networks (6G) security, Digital Twins security, Responsible AI, Explainable AI, and Fairness in AI.  In the past, he worked on security and privacy issues in Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs), vehicular clouds, and vehicular social networking, applied cryptography, Internet of Things, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), cloud computing, API security, and blockchain. 

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