• [2024.03.26] We are currently seeking full-time Ph.D. student who is passionate about multidisciplinary research and eager to accept the challenge of developing cutting-edge intelligent IoT services to monitor the stress and wellbeing of elite sport leaders.For more information, please visit the link
• [2024.03.26] We are also recruiting an other studnet for our project "ADEPT: AI-Based Driving Evaluation and Performance Testing", For more information, please visit the link
• [2024.02.05] Good News, I will be chairing a special session on "Security of User Identification and Data for Generative AI in the Gaming Industry" at the IEEE GEM 2024 conference in Turin, Italy. You are cordially invited to submit your paper. Deadline is March 22, 2024. link
• [2023.12.13] My two postgradute students: Gibson and Iskled have presented their poster paper I2Ri Winter Poster Event, organised by Industry and Innovation Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
• [2023.09.21] Good news: "On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, we are pleased to inform you that your paper #1570940054 entitled "Taking IoT Security to the Next Level: Hyperledger Fabric Private Blockchain enabled IoT Middleware" has been accepted for presentation in the 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps): 3rd Workshop on Sustainable and Resilient Industrial Networks program, and for publication in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023
• [2022.11.07] I am pleased to share that I presented my paper at the 12th Conference of IoT at TU Delft, The Netherlands, #IoTDelft. For more detail please visit conference page.
• [2022.10.04] Happy to share that I have been appointed as an Editorial Board Member of IASC - Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing Journal which is indexed and abstracted in all major databases, including SCI, Scopus, EI Compendex, etc. (2021 SCI Impact Factor 3.401). For more detail please visit IASC page.
• [2022.10.04] Happy to share that Our Paper "Industrial Internet of Things Security Modelling using Ontological Methods" has been accepted in the 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things, which will be held in Delft - The Netherlands in November 2022. For more detail please visit conference page.
• [2022.09.14] I am pleased to share that I have exhibited my @PETRASio - #SOfIoTS research theme at the innovation conference on green future #HallamGreenFuture. I shared the research on #IoT devices & #DigitalTwins security modeling for CNIs & net-zero use cases. Thanks to @HallamResearch for organizing the fantastic event. Event Links Link1 Link2
• [2022.08.01] I am pleased to share that our paper titled "PROMPT: PROcess Mining and Paravector Tensor based Physical Health Monitoring Framework" has been accepted and published in IEEE Sensor Journal (Impact Factor 4.325).
• [2022.07.14] I am happy to share that our paper titled "Get your foes fooled: Proximal Gradient Split Learning for Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks on IoMT data" has been accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Network Science And Engineering (Impact Factor 5.033). There are many methods proposed for data security but recently it has been proven that AI models can be attacked to recover data, either from gradient maps or model parameters, i.e. model inversion attacks. Its one of the very early studies that proposes a learning network and technical method to cope with model inversion attacks.
• [2022.06.16~17] Presented our project results in PETRAS Academic Community Conference & Poster Exhibition, 16-17 June 2022, Location: Goodenough College London, UK.
• [2022.06.17] Our Paper "Things Data Interoperability Through Annotating oneM2M resources for NGSI-LD Entities" has been accepted at the IEEE iThings 2022 conference, which will be held in Espoo - Finland in August 2022.
• [2022.06.14] Attended F2F meeting after very longtime. Location: Cisco Systems UK, 9-11 New Square, Feltham TW14 8HA UK.
• [2022.03.06] Invited as TPC member for the 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 (STI 2022) : link
• [2022.03.06] Joined as TPC for Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Trustworthy Decentralized AI Ecosystems, Espoo, Finland: link
• [2022.05.25] Attended consultancy meeting on Cyber Physical Systems Infrastructure and Digital Twins. I presented my expert opinion and thoughts. This event was organized by the UKRI and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Location: 1 Sekforde Street EC1R 0BE London, UK.
• [2022.05.01] I am super excited to share that I am joining Sheffield Hallam University as a Senior Lecturer IoT. Anyone interested to start Ph.D. or Master studies with me can visit Link or directly contact me through email.
• [2022.05.01] I am pleased to share that I have been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.
• [2022.03.06] Joined as TPC for Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Trustworthy Decentralized AI Ecosystems, Espoo, Finland: link
• [2022.01.27] Attended 4D SIG Workshop: Covered topics include: 1. National Data Strategy and the Data Sharing Challenge , 2. ESWG introduce the main group to what we are interested in and seeking to achieve , 3. Digital Twin work at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, AMRC Sheffield.
• [2022.01.06] I am invited by RMIT University, Australia, as an external examiner for the PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering) thesis.
• [2021.11.25] Attended PETRAS Securing the Future: Knowledge Exchange & Networking Event (Virtual) PETRAS, Event Link.
• [2021.12.16] I am pleased to share that my VSI proposal on “Role of Disruptive Technologies in Modern Distribution Grid Automation” in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Journal. The Impact Factor of this journal is 5.353. Please visit CFP link for more detail.
• [2021.11.25] Attended PETRAS Securing the Future: Knowledge Exchange & Networking Event (Virtual) PETRAS, Event Link.
• [2021.09.30] Attended C-DICE Secondment Matchmaking virtual Event C-DICE, Event Link.
• [2020.12.02] Attended The Brussels Privacy Symposium 2020 (Virtual): Research and the Protection of Personal Data Under the GDPR.
• [2020.10.07] Attended Protecting confidentiality and privacy in clinical trial and medical data sets, (Virtual) Organized by Royal Statistical Society.
• [2019.01.23 to 25] Presented our paper in The Korean Institutes of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Winter Conference 2019, Yong Pyong Resort Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do Conference link.
• [2019.01.18] Presented our technical report in The 6th Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities & Communities, Seoul, Korea (Rep.of) Conference link.
• [2018.01.17 to 19] Presented our paper in The 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, Jeju Island, Korea, Conference link.
• [2018.08.20 to 21] Presented our paper in The Summer Workshop on Computer Communications (SWCC 2018); Hongcheon, Gangwon-do, Conference link.
• [2017.02.08] Attended HSN-2017 High Speed Network Work shop, Jeju Island, Korea Link.
• [2017.01.18 to 20] Presented our paper in The 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence, Jeju Island, Korea, Conference link.
• [2017.01.11 to 13] Presented our paper in The 31st International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) Dan Nang, Vietnam, Conference link.
• [2016.08.22 to 23] Presented our paper in The Summer Workshop on Computer Communications (SWCC 2016); Hongcheon, Gangwon-do, Workshop link.
• [2016.10.17 to 18] Attended 16 International Symposium on Perception, Action, and Cognitive Systems, Seoul, Korea Link.

• Abdussalam; Artificial Intelligence and IoT Cloud Computing Developments for Central Sleep Apnoea Monitoring; College of Business, Technology and Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University, UK; (May 2022 to - ) as a second supervisor
• Junaid Abdul Wahid; Crisis related data analytics: New Models using Topic Modelling Variants and Supervised Learning Approaches; School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; (2020 to - 2023) as a mentor

1. Adebayo Iskled Adetayo, "Monitoring Agriculture Fields for Improving Yield using Social IoT" (2023).
2. Osama Ishmilh, "Blockchain based Secure IoT Integrated System for Real-Time Monitoring and Traceability of Medicine Storage Conditions" (2023).
3. Shruthi Sureshbabu, "Traffic Preclearance for Emergency Vehicles using Autonomous Agents" (2023).
4. Arisa Maphakdee, "“Comparing the enterprise IoT system implementation in Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0" (2023).
5. Inayatullah, "Securing Sensor Data Using Private Blockchain Hyperledger Fabric Network" (2022).
6. Muhammad Junaid Minhas, "Crimes Predictions using Machine Learning approaches for London Streets" (2022).
7. Norman-williams, "Exploiting Data Analytics for Improving Customer Satisfaction" (2022).
8. Titilope Ahemokhai, "Predicting Autism as an Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Using Machine Learning Techniques" (2022).
9. Hassam Mughal, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea (2017-2020).

• Sajjad Ahmed; Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan (2018-2021).

Editorial Services:

• Editorial Board Member, Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing. Link
• Guest Editor, special issue on “AI-Driven Vehicle Platooning for Intelligent Transportation Systems” in SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles. Link
• Guest Editor, special issue on “Role of Big Data Management, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Techniques for Ubiquitous Computing” in Computer Systems Science and Engineering Journal. Link
• Managing Guest Editor, special issue on “Role of Disruptive Technologies in Modern Distribution Grid Automation” in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Journal. Link

• Member , Senior Member IEEE (94189930)
• Member, ACM (4513194)
• Member , Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK
• Member, HUFS International Alumni Association
• Member, CS QAU Alumni Association
• Member, USAID Pakistan Alumni Association

• Member, The Korean Institute of Communications and Information (2016-2020)
• UoM Representative, National Postdoc, Steering Committee, United Kingdom (2020-2021)

• 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
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• IEEE Sensors Journal
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• Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems
• Elsevier, Computer Standard and Interfaces
• Elsevier, Ad Hoc Networks
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