Research Interests:

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

Recent Activities

• Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue entitled 'Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Fault Tolerant and Reliable Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) and Internet of Vehicles (IoV)', The Open Transportation Journal, Submission closes on: 31st December, 2025

• 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 Selected Publications:

• 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)

• M. A. Lawal, R. A. Shaikh, S. R. Hassan, "An Anomaly Mitigation Framework for IoT Using Fog Computing", Electronics, vol. 9(9), pp. 1565-1588, 2020. (ISI/JCR IF: 2.412)

• I. Rai, R. A. Shaikh, S. R. Hasan, "A hybrid dual-mode trust management scheme for vehicular networks", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 16(7), 2020 (ISI/JCR: 1.151)

R&D Achievements:

• Citations :2040+

• H-Index :  22

• Patents: 4

• Journals: 28

• Conferences: 33

• Books/chapters: 2