2025
Journals
Malik Imran, Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, Safiullah Khan, Muhammad Rashid, and Maire O'Neill “PIP-NTT: An Efficient Pipelined Hardware Accelerator for FNTT/INTT in CRYSTALS-Kyber”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, [Submitted].
Fahad Bin Muslim, Kashif Inayat, Muhammad Zain Siddiqi, Safiullah Khan, Tayyeb Mahmood, and Ihtesham ul Islam “SUPER-AI Accelerator: Systolic-Array with UPF-based Power-Efficient Reconfigurable AI Accelerator”, Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, [Accepted].
Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Rabab Al-Zaidi, Tarek Ali, Safiullah Khan and Ali Kashif Bashir “AI-Optimized Elliptic Curve with Certificate-Less Digital Signature for Maritime IoT Security ”, Ad Hoc Networks, [Accepted].
Conferences
Malik Imran, Safiullah Khan, Zain Ul Abideen, Ciara Rafferty, Ayesha Khalid, Muhammad Rashid and Maire O'Neill, “RejSCore: Rejection Sampling Core for Multivariate-based Public key Cryptography ”, in 2025 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium, Nanjing, China, Dec 19-21, 2025. [Accepted]
2024
Journals
Muhammad Rashid, Safiullah Khan, Omar S Sonbul, and Seong Oun Hwang “A Flexible and Parallel Hardware Accelerator for Forward and Inverse Number Theoretic Transform”, IEEE Access, [Accepted].
Safiullah Khan, Kashif Inayat, Fahad Bin Muslim, Yasir Ali Shah, Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Ayesha Khalid, Malik Imran, and Akmalbek Abdusalomov “Securing the IoT Ecosystem: ASIC-Based Hardware Realization of Ascon Lightweight Cipher”, International Journal of Information Security, [Accepted].
Malik Imran, Safiullah Khan, Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, Yasir Ali Shah, Samuel Pagliarini, Muhammad Rashid, and Maire O’Neill “Evaluating NTT/INTT Implementation Styles for Post-Quantum Cryptography”, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, [Accepted].
Fahad Bin Muslim, Kashif Inayat, and Safiullah Khan, “LPCHISEL: Automatic Power Intent Generation for a Chisel-based ASIC design”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 115, pp. 109115, 2024, doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109115.
Conferences
Yasir Ali Shah, Safiullah Khan, Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, and Maire O’Neill, “Efficient Soft Core Multiplier for Multivariate Digital Signatures” in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Singapore, May 19-24, 2024.
2023
Journals
Abdul Majeed, Safiullah Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Towards optimization of privacy-utility trade-off using similarity and diversity based clustering”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 368-385, 2024, doi:10.1109/TETC.2023.3258528.
Conferences
Safiullah Khan, Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty, Yasir Ali Shah, Maire O’Neill, Wai-Kong Lee, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Efficient, Error-Resistant NTT Architectures for CRYSTALS-Kyber FPGA Accelerators” in 31st IFIP/IEEE Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC 2023), Sharjah, UAE, Oct. 16-18, 2023.
2022
Journals
Abdul Majeed, Safiullah Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Towards privacy preservation using clustering based anonymization: Recent advances and future research outlook”, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 53066-53097, 2022, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3175219.
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, Angshuman Karmakar, Jose Maria Bermudo Mera, Abdul Majeed, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Area-time Efficient Implementation of NIST Lightweight Hash Functions Targeting IoT Applications”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 8083-8095, 2023, doi:10.1109/JIOT.2022.3229516.
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, Ayesha Khalid, Abdul Majeed, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Area-optimized constant-time hardware implementation for polynomial multiplication”, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 5-8, 2023, doi:10.1109/LES.2022.3185265.
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, Abdul Majeed, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Blockchain meets Lightweight Cryptography”, IEEE Potentials Magazine, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 38-42, 2022, doi:10.1109/MPOT.2022.3204849.
Muhammad Umar Nasir, Safiullah Khan, Shahid Mehmood, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Muhammad Zubair, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Network Meddling Detection Using Machine Learning Empowered with Blockchain Technology”, Sensors, vol. 22, no. 18, pp. 1-13, 2022, doi:10.3390/s22186755.
Muhammad Umar Nasir, Safiullah Khan, Shahid Mehmood, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Atta-ur Rahman, and Seong Oun Hwang, “IoMT-Based Osteosarcoma Cancer Detection in Histopathology Images using Transfer Learning Empowered with Blockchain, Fog Computing, and Edge Computing”, Sensors, vol. 22, no. 14, pp. 1-14, 2022, doi:10.3390/s22145444.
Abdul Majeed, Safiullah Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “A Comprehensive Analysis of Privacy Preserving Solutions Developed for Online Social Networks (OSNs)”, Electronics, vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 1-37, 2022, doi:10.3390/electronics11131931.
Muhammad Sajid Farooq, Safiullah Khan , Abdur Rehman Bhatti, Sagheer Abbas, Muhammad Adnan Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Blockchain-based smart home networks security empowered with fused machine learning”, Sensors, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 1-13, 2022, doi:10.3390/s22124522.
Abdul Majeed, Safiullah Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Group privacy: An underrated but worth studying research problem in the era of artificial intelligence and big data”, Electronics, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1-34, 2022, doi:10.3390/electronics11091449.
Safiullah Khan, Ali Raza, and Seong Oun Hwang, “An enhanced privacy preserving, secure and efficient authentication protocol for VANET”, CMC-Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 71, no.2, pp. 3703-3719, 2022, doi:10.32604/cmc.2022.023476.
Conferences
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Evaluating the Performance of Ascon Lightweight Authenticated Encryption for AI-Enabled IoT Devices” in TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW), Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 07-09, 2022.
2021
Journals
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, and Seong Oun Hwang, “A flexible Gimli hardware implementation in FPGA and its application to RFID authentication protocols”, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 105327-105340, 2021, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3100104.
Muhammad Huzaifa, Khalid Javeed, Safiullah Khan, and Atif Raza Jafri, “Low latency Montgomery multiplier for cryptographic applications” Sir Syed University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 5-14, 2021, doi:10.33317/ssurj.213.
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, and Seong Oun Hwang, “AEchain: A lightweight blockchain for IoT applications”, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 64-76, 2022, doi:10.1109/MCE.2021.3060373.
Safiullah Khan, Wai-Kong Lee, and Seong Oun Hwang, “Scalable and efficient hardware architectures for authenticated encryption in IoT applications”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 11260-11275, 2021, doi:10.1109/JIOT.2021.3052184.
2020
Journals
Ali Raza, Safiullah Khan, and Seong Oun Hwang, “A secure authentication protocol against the co-located app attack in BLE” IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 399-404, 2020, doi:10.5573/IEIESPC.2020.9.5.399.
Imtiyaz Ali, Zeeshan Kaleem, Safiullah Khan, Muhammad Abrahim Satti, and Zahoor Uddin, “Cognitive radios real-time implementation on software defined radio for public safety communications”, Telecommunication Systems, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 103-111, 2020, doi:10.1007/s11235-019-00641-0.
2019
Conferences
Adnan Shafiq, Safiullah Khan, and Hamza Zuberi, “FPGA based out-of-band encryption module with key management system” in 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital systems (C-CODE), Islamabad, Pakistan, Mar. 06-07, 2019.
Muhammad Zain-Ul-Abideen, Safiullah Khan, and Khalid Javeed, “Interference management in ad hoc networks” in International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Lahore, Pakistan, Feb. 21-22, 2019.
2018
Journals
Safiullah Khan, Khalid Javeed, and Yasir Ali Shah, “High-speed FPGA implementation of full-word Montgomery multiplier for ECC applications”, Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 62, pp. 91-101, 2018, doi:10.1016/j.micpro.2018.07.005.
Conferences
Yasir Ali Shah, Safiullah Khan , Khalid Javeed, and Shoaib Azmat, “A high speed redundant-signed-digit based Montgomery modular multiplier” in International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Lahore, Pakistan, Feb. 22-23, 2018