Professional Service
ADVISORY BOARD
Advisory Board Member, NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor, Neurocomputing (Elsevier) (SCIE, IF: 5.779)
Editor, PLOS ONE (SCIE, IF: 2.74)
Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCIE, IF: 0.648)
Editor, PeerJ Computer Science (SCIE, IF: 3.09)
Associate Editor, Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer) (SCIE, IF: 6.7)
Associate Editor, Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer) (SCIE, IF: 5.9)
Associate Editor, IEEE Access (SCIE, IF: 3.476)
Associate Editor, Ad hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN) (SCIE, IF: 1.03)
Academic Editor, Security and Communication Networks (SCIE, IF: 1.968)
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Internet of Things
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Communications and Networks
Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Energy Research
SPECIAL ISSUES
Guest Editor, Sensors (MDPI), Special issue on “Security and Privacy-Preserving Techniques for IoT and Communication Networks,” 2024-2025. (Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025)
Guest Editor, Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer), Special issue on "Edge/Cloud-based Secure, trustable, and privacy-conscious digital twins" 2023. (Submission Deadline: 31 January 2023)
Lead Guest Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Special issue on "Malware Analysis and Vulnerability Detection Using Machine Learning," Annual issue 2022.
Lead Guest Editor, Energies (MDPI), Special issue on "New Trends in Power Networks' Transition towards Renewable Energy" (2022-2023).
Lead Guest Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Special issue on "Malware Analysis and Vulnerability Detection Using Machine Learning," 2020.
Guest Editor, Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), Special issue “Advances in Communication Networks for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Applications,” 2013.
Guest Editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special issue "Protocols and Architectures for Next-Generation Wireless Sensor Networks," 2014.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Track Chair, Data Engineering, Cyber Security and Pervasive Services Track at International Conference on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet 2023), November 01-03, 2023, Clérmont-Ferrand, France.
Program Committee Chair, Security, Safety & Trust Management (SSTM) Track at 31st IEEE WETICE 2022 Conference, 29 June - 1 July, 2022, Stuttgart, Germany.
Steering Committee Chair, International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2 2021), May 20-21, 2021, Islamabad, Pakistan.
General Chair, 7th International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2021), in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2021), on August 9-12, 2021, Leuven, Belgium.
Program Committee Chair, Security, Safety & Trust Management (SSTM) Track at 30th IEEE WETICE 2021 Conference, 23-25 June 2021, Basque Coast - Bayonne, France.
General Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Internet of Things for Healthcare (IoT-Health 2020) in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2020), 12-15 December 2020, Shenzhen, China.
Special Session Chair, Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT-CPS), in Conjunction with IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020), Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.
General Chair, 6th International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2020), in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2020), on August 9-12, 2020, Leuven, Belgium.
Program Committee Chair, Security, Safety & Trust Management (SSTM) Track at 28th IEEE WETICE 2019 Conference, Capri (Napoli), Italy, June 12-14, 2019.
General Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Things for Healthcare (IoT-Health 2019), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2019), October 14-16, 2019, Bogotá, Colombia.
Workshop Co-Chair, International Workshop on Digital Investigation & Information Assurance Techniques (DIIAT) in conjunction with 15th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2019), Tangier, Morocco, June 24 — 28, 2019.
General Chair, The International Workshop on Security in Health Informatics (SHInfo 2018) in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 9-13, 2018.
General Chair, The International Workshop on Internet of Things for Healthcare (IoT-Health 2018) in conjunction with IEEE Healthcom 2018, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 17-20, 2018.
Workshop Chair, International Workshop on Healthcare Data Security and Privacy (HDSP 2018) in conjunction with 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2018), November 5-8, 2018, Leuven, Belgium.
Program Committee Chair, Security, Safety & Trust Management (SSTM) Track at 27th IEEE WETICE 2018 Conference, Paris, France, June 27-29, 2018.
Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Healthcare Data Security and Reliability (HDSR 2018) (in conjunction with QRS 2018), Lisbon, Portugal, July 16-20, 2018.
General Chair, 4th International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2018) (in conjunction with 15th MobiSPC 2018) Gran Canaria, Spain, August 13-15, 2018.
Workshop Chair, International Workshop on Healthcare Data Security and Privacy (HDSP'17) September 18-20, 2017, Lund, Sweden.
Program Committee Chair, Security, Safety & Trust Management (SSTM) Track at 26th IEEE WETICE 2017 Conference, Poznan, Poland, June 21-23, 2017
Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Healthcare Data Security and Reliability (HDSR 2017) (in conjunction with QRS 2017), Prague, Czech Republic, July 25-29, 2017
General Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2017), July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium (in conjunction with 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2017)).
General Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2016), August 15-18, 2016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2016)).
Special Tracks Chair, 17th IEEE International Conf. on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HealthCom 2015), Oct. 14-17, 2015, Boston, USA.
Publicity Chair, 17th IEEE International Conf. on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HealthCom 2015), October 14-17, 2015, Boston, USA.
General Chair, 1st International Workshop on Cyber Security and Digital Investigation (CSDI 2015), August 17-20, 2015, Belfort, France (in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2015)).
Special Session Co-chair, Special session on Secure Cloud Computing Technologies for M-Health Services & Apps. in IEEE CCNC 2015, Jan 9-12, 2015, Las Vegas, USA.
Technical Committee Co-chair, 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2011), September 5-6, 2011, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Publicity Chair, International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security (WIAS-11) (in conjunction with ANT-2011), Sep. 19-21, 2011, Niagara Falls, Canada.
Session Chair, 13th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (Ad Hoc Now 2014), Benidorm, Spain, June 22-27, 2014.
Conference Secretary and Session Chair, 6th IEEE International Conf. on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2010), October 18-19, 2010, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Finance and Publicity Chair, 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2009), October 19-20, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Session Chair, International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2010) Beijing, China.
Session Chair, 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2009), October 19-20, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Session Chair, International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006) Chengdu, China.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
- Fellow, British Computer Society (BCS)
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
- Member, IEEE Computer Society
- Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
- Member, IEEE Sensors Council
- Member, IEEE Systems Council
- Member, IEEE Biometrics Council
- Member, IEEE Council on RFID
- Member, IEEE Cybersecurity Community
- Member, IEEE Internet of Things Community
- Member, IEEE Blockchain Community
- Member, IEEE Big Data Community
- Member, IEEE Cloud Computing Community
- Member, IEEE Smart Cities Community
- Member, IEEE Internet Technology Policy Community
- Global Member, Internet Society (ISOC)
- Member, Korean Institute of Communication and Sciences (KICS) (June 2005 – June 2006)
REVIEWER (JOURNALS)
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
IEEE Access
IET Networks
IET Communications
Neurocomputing (Elsevier)
Neural Computing and Applications (Springer)
Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier)
Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer)
Telecommunication Systems (Springer)
Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier)
Soft Computing (Springer)
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer)
Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier)
Journal of Medical Systems (Springer)
Swarm Intelligence (Springer)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer)
Wireless Personal Communications (Springer)
Security and Communication Networks (Wiley)
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
International Journal of Ad hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (Inderscience)
International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS) (Inderscience)
International journal of Quality Engineering and Technology (Inderscience)
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Hindawi)
Inventions (MPDI)
Aerospace (MDPI)
SpringerPlus journal (Springer)
Information (MDPI)
Annals of Telecommunications (Springer)
Ad hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN)
Symmetry (MDPI)
Sensors (MDPI)
Electronics (MDPI)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
IEEE CEC 2024: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, in conjunction with IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), Yokohama, Japan, June 30-July 5, 2024.
IEEE CEC 2023: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago USA, July 1-5, 2023.
IEEE CEC 2022: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, in conjunction with IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) Padua, Italy, July 18-23 July, 2022.
IEEE CEC 2021: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Krakow, Poland, June 28-1 July, 2021.
IEEE CEC 2020: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, in conjunction with IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020), Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.
SMARTTECH 2020: Cyber-Security Track, International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. November 3-5, 2020.
ICTH 2019: 9th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information & Communication Technologies in Healthcare, Coimbra, Portugal, Nov. 4-7, 2019
IEEE CEC 2019: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Wellington, New Zealand, June 10-13, 2019.
IWCMC 2018: 14th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, June 25-29, 2018.
ICTH 2018: 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information & Communication Technologies in Healthcare, Leuven, Belgium, Nov. 5-8, 2018
IEEE CEC 2018: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8-13, 2018.
ITNG 2018: 15th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 16-18, 2018.
IWCMC 2017: 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Valencia, Spain; June 26-30, 2017.
IEEE CEC 2017: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain June 5-8, 2017.
EvoComnet 2017: 14th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Net. & Parallel & Distributed Sys., Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 19-21, 2017.
IEEE CEC 2016: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-29, 2016.
EvoComnet 2016: 13th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Net. and Parallel & Distributed Sys., Porto, Portugal, 30 March -1 April 2016.
IEEE CEC 2015: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Sendai, Japan, May 25-28, 2015.
EvoComnet 2015: 12th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Net. and Parallel & Distributed Sys., Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015
ICSI 2015: Sixth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, June 26-29, 2015, Beijing, China.
ICACC-2015: International Conference on Anti-Cybercrime (ICACC-2015), 9-11 February 2015 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
IEEE CEC 2014: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 6-11, 2014, Beijing, China.
EvoComnet 2014: 11th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Networks and Parallel & Distributed Sys., Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014.
ICSI 2014: Fifth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Hefei, China, October 17-20, 2014.
ISBAST 2014: International Symposium on Biometric and Security Technologies, August 26–27, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
BASNet 2014: 2nd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks, (in conjunction with ANT-2014), June 2 - 5, 2014, Hasselt, Belgium.
ICET 2014: 10th International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1-2, 2014.
SDTA 2014: 1st Symposium on Digital Trust in Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 4-5 December 2014.
FIT 2014: 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Dec 17 - 19, 2014, Islamabad Pakistan.
BASNet 2014: 3rd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks, (in conjunction with ICTH-2014), Sep. 22-25, 2014, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
EvoComnet 2013: 10th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Networks and Parallel and Distributed Syst., Vienna, Austria, April 3-5, 2013.
IUPT 2013: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things Workshop (in conjunction with ANT-2013), June 25-28, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
ICSI 2013: 4th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Harbin, China, June 12 to 15, 2013.
FIT 2013: 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad Pakistan, Dec. 16 - 18, 2013.
NCIA-2013: 2nd National Conference on Information Assurance 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan, 11-12 December 2013.
ACRN 2013: Int. Workshop on Advances in Cognitive Radio Networks, (in conjunction with NGMAST 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 25-27, 2013.
ICTHP 2013: 1st International Conference on Technology Helping People with Special Needs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb 18-19, 2013.
EvoComnet 2012: 9th Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecom. Networks and Parallel and Distributed Syst. Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012.
ICSI 2012: 3rd International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Shenzhen, China, June 17-20, 2012.
IUPT 2012: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things Workshop (in conjunction with ANT-2012), August 27-29, 2012, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
ICACI 2012: 5th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, Nanjing, China, October 18-20, 2012.
WIAR 2012: National Workshop on Information Assurance Research, Riyadh, KSA, 18 April 2012.
ICSI 2011: International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, June 12-15, 2011, Chongqing, China.
FIT 2011: 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, December 19-21, 2011, Islamabad, Pakistan.
SUComS 2011: International Conference on Security-enriched Urban Computing and Smart Grid, September 14-16, 2011, Hualien, Taiwan.
IUPT 2011: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things Workshop (in conjunction with ANT-2011), September 19-21, 2011, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
ICET 2010: 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, October 18-19, 2010, Islamabad, Pakistan.
FGCN 2010: International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju, Korea.
ACN 2010: Advanced Communication and Networking, June 24-26, 2010, Miyazaki, Japan.
SUComS 2010: International Conference on Security-enriched Urban Computing and Smart Grid, September 15 - 17, 2010, Daejeon, Korea.
ANS 2010: International Workshop on Autonomic Networks and Services in conjunction with ATC 2010, Oct 26-29, 2010, Xian, China.
ICET 2009: 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, October 19-20, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan.
FGCN 2009: International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, December 10-12, 2009, South Korea.