Bio-sketch

I got my Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Sindh, Jamshoro (Pakistan) in 2003, and was awarded Vice Chancellor's silver medal for obtaining first position in my M.Sc (Computer Science). The title of my M.Sc dissertation was "Controlling Home Electricity System through PC Interface".

I was appointed as a research associate in the institute of mathematics and computer science (IMCS), University of Sindh in 2004, and then as a lecturer in July 2005. I was awarded scholarship from University of Sindh in year 2006 to pursue my PhD studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. After successful completion of my PhD, I returned back to Pakistan and resumed my job as lecturer in University of Sindh in January 2011 and promoted as an Assistant Professor in July 2012. Later on I was promoted as an Associate Professor in August 2015. The title of my PhD dissertation was "A Proof-of-Proximity Framework for Device Pairing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments". My PhD Supervisors were: Dr. Dan Chalmers and Dr. Ian Wakeman. 

The title of my PhD dissertation is: “A Proof-of-Proximity Framework for Device Pairing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments”. In my PhD work, I have proposed a generic system for secure device pairing by demonstration of physical proximity. The main contribution is the design and implementation of Proof-of-Proximity framework along with a novel Co-Location protocol. Other contributions include a detailed analysis of existing device pairing schemes, a simple device discovery mechanism, a protocol selection mechanism that is used to find out the best possible scheme to demonstrate the physical proximity of the devices according to the scenario, and a usability study of eight pairing schemes and the proposed system. You can download my complete PhD thesis from here. 

Currently, I am working as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro since October 2023.