Job Experience

Associate Professor (Aug 2022 - to date), School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

• MS Modules Taught:

  • Network Security and IoT (CMP-7037B)

  • Web Development (CMP-7003A)

• Undergraduate Modules Taught:

  • Networks (CMP-5037B)

  • Systems Analysis (CMP-5003A)

• Supervision:

  • No. of MSc students supervised: 5 (completed)

  • No. of BSc students supervised: 2 (ongoing)

Associate Professor (Aug 2017 - July 2022), Dept. of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.

• MS/PhD Courses Taught:

  • Network Security (EMCS 631)

  • Applied Cryptography (EMCS 621)

  • Security Assessment (EMCS 641)

  • Advanced Topics in Networking (CS 701)

• Undergraduate Courses Taught:

  • Computer System Security (CPCS 463)

  • Computer Networks I (CPCS 371)

  • Computer Networks II (CPCS 372)

  • Computer Network Practices (CPCS 473)

  • Selected Topics (Ethical Hacking) (CPCS 494)

  • Introduction to Programming (CS 201)

  • Human Computer Interactions (CPCS 381)

• Supervision:

  • No. of PhD students supervised: 1 (Completed) 

  • No. of MS students supervised: 3 (Completed)

  • No. of BS students supervised: 8 (Completed)

Assistant Professor (April 2012 - Jul 2017), Dept. of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.

• MS/PhD Courses Taught:

  • Network Security (CS 742)

  • Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (CS 642)

• Undergraduate Courses Taught

• • Computer Networks I (CPCS 371)

  • Computer Networks II (CPCS 372)

  • Computer Network Practices (CPCS 473)

  • Selected Topics (Ethical Hacking) (CPCS 494)

  • Introduction to Programming (CS 201) 

  • Human Computer Interactions (CPCS 381)

• Supervision:

  • No. of MS students supervised: 1

  • No. of BS students supervised: 15

Postdoc Fellow (Oct 2009 - Jan 2012), Computer Security Research Lab, Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Engg., University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO), Canada.

• CA-sponsored project that develops a method for the validation of consistency and completeness of access control policy set using data mining algorithms.

• Research and development on designing access control anomalies detection methodology.

• Research and development on risk-based decision methods for access control systems.

Research Assistant (Sep. 2005 – Aug 2009), Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

• Research and development of security services for ubiquitous computing environments.

  • Developed a resource efficient framework, called an intrusion-tolerant trust-based privacy assured security solution for wireless sensor networks, featuring trust management, secure routing and key management.

  • Developed a Group-based Trust Management Scheme (GTMS) for clustered wireless sensor networks.

  • Developed an identity, route and location privacy algorithms (IRL and r-IRL) for wireless sensor networks.

• Projects

  • IGI-sponsored project that develops an authentication and access control solution for mobile devices in virtual product and manufacturing environments.

Jr. Software Engineer (May 2003 – July 2003), Precience Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi, Pakistan.

Volunteer Job Experience:

Team Leader (Jan. 2008 – Aug 2009), Ubiquitous Security (uSec) team of Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

• Organized a group of 6 students.