Associate Professor, School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Email: riaz289 (at) gmail (dot) com
Associate Professor, School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Email: riaz289 (at) gmail (dot) com
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:
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)
S. Z. Nizamani, S. R. Hassan, R. A. Shaikh, E. A. Abozinadah and R. Mehmood, "A Novel Hybrid Textual-Graphical Authentication Scheme With Better Security, Memorability, and Usability," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 51294-51312, 2021 (ISI/JCR IF: 3.745)
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