Research Interests:

Privacy, Security, Trust Management, Policy Validation, WSNs, VANETs, IoT

Recent Activities

• TPC member of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Montbéliard, France, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2026   

• TPC member of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Computational Intelligence, Aligarh, India , 4-5 April 2026 

• TPC member of the 15th Int. Conf. on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies, AMBIENT 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 28 to October 2 , 2025

• Editor of Book: '6G Networks and AI-Driven Cybersecurity', Publisher: IGI Global, View , July 2025

• Associate Editor: Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Print ISSN: 2374-2917 Online ISSN: 2374-2925, Taylor & Francis (2023- till date).

• Associate Editor: International Journal of Computers and Applications, Print ISSN: 1206-212X Online ISSN: 1925-7074 , Taylor & Francis (2023- till date).

Recent Publications:

• Alharbi, R. A. Shaikh, R. Hassan and R. Asif, "Explainable and Adaptive Intrusion Detection in Digital Twin Environments", 13th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2026), Granada, Spain, July 2026. 

• Alturki, B., Abu Al-Haija, Q., Alsemmeari, R.A. et al., "IoMT landscape: Navigating Current Challenges and Pioneering Future Research Trends". Discov Appl Sci 7, 26 (2025),  Springer.

• Alharbi, R. A. Shaikh and R. Asif, "Data-Aided Intrusion Detection Systems: Leveraging AI, Blockchain and Digital Twin Technology," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Washington, DC, USA, 2024, pp. 8214-8215. 

• M. H. Junejo, A. A. -H. B. A. Rahman, R. A. Shaikh, K. M. Yusof and S. Sadiah, "Trust Model for Reliable Grouping-Based Communications in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 124584-124596, 2023. (ISI/JCR IF: 3.9)

R&D Achievements:

• Citations :2250+

• H-Index :  23

• Patents: 4

• Journals: 28

• Conferences: 35

• Books/chapters: 2