Research Supervision

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Cyber Security, Cognitive and Intelligent Communication, IoT Security, Big Data and Cloud Security

- Smart Grid, Mobile Healthcare Systems, Body Area Networks, E-Health

- Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Swarm Intelligence

- Wireless Ad hoc & Sensor Networks (Routing, Management, Performance Analysis, Security)

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

PhD Thesis Supervised:

1.    Dr. Arif Jamal Malik (Graduated: May 2014)

Thesis Title:  Optimized Feature Selection and Decision Tree Pruning using Particle Swarm Optimization for Network Intrusion Detection

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, Foundation University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

2.    Dr. Aftab Ali (Graduated: October 2015)

Thesis Title: Development and Performance Analysis of Key Agreement Schemes in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

Current Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Computing, University of Ulster, UK.

3.    Dr. Hamid Ali (Graduated: August 2018)

Thesis Title: Development and Performance Analysis of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms and their Applications in Communication Networks

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

4.    Dr. Ashfaq Hussain Farooqi (Graduated: August 2018)

Thesis Title:  A Specification-based Distributed Intrusion Detection Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

5.    Dr. Muhammad Imran (Graduated: November 2019)  (Co-Supervised)

Thesis Title:  Denial of Service Attacks Detection in Software Defined Networks

Current Position: Researcher, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

MS Thesis Supervised:

1. Mohammed Bin Rashed (2021-2022). Research Title: Indicators of Compromise Management System
   
   

2. Rawan Alamri (2019): Thesis Title: Security and Privacy in Fog Computing. (Co-supervised)
   
   

3. M. Shafiq Gondal (2015). Thesis Title: Diversity and Weighted Diversity based Centroid for Network Intrusion Detection using Evolutionary Algorithms
   
   

4. Mansoor Ul Haq (2013). Thesis Title: Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks using Particle Swarm Optimization
   
   

5. Muhammad Imran (2012). Thesis Title: A Detection and Prevention System against Wormhole Attacks in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
   
   

6. Umer Farooq (2012). Thesis Title: Designing Scalable and Robust Animated and 3D static CAPTCHAs for web services
   
   

7. Ramsha Rizwan (2011). Thesis Title:Intrusion Detection in WSNs using Artificial Immune System
   
   

8. Farhatullah Mehmood (2011). Thesis Title:Image Segmentation for the Detection of Urban Areas in Satellite Images
   
   

9. Saad Mansur (2011). Thesis Title:Bittorent Protocol for Android Phones   
   
   

10. Muhammad Imran (2011). Thesis Title: Optimized Multicast Routing in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
    
    

11. Muhammad Asif (2010). Thesis Title: Rule Induction Techniques for Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
    
    

12. Sarah Irum (2011). Thesis Title: A Hybrid Key Management Scheme for Intra and Inter-WBAN Communication
    
    

13. Afshan Ahmed (2011). International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI), Pakistan. Thesis Title: Binding Update Schemes for Inter-Domain Mobility Management in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6. (Co-supervised)
    
    

14. Safdar Ali (2010). Thesis Title:Intrusion Detection using Bi-Classifier based Genetic Algorithm
    
    

15. Faisal Siraj (2010). Thesis Title: Trust Based Computation of AODV Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
    
    

16. Aftab Ali (2009). Thesis Title: An Improved Key Management Scheme for Body Area Networks
    
    

17. Abdul Hameed (2010). Thesis Title: Finding an Efficient VLAN Topology using Traffic Analysis
    
    

18. Raees Khan (2009). Thesis Title: Sensor Network Reliability and Congestion Control Protocol
    
    

19. Salabat Khan (2009). Thesis Title: Cryptanalysis of Data Encryption Standard using Optimization Techniques