Dr. Aslam Jarwar

Dr. Aslam Jarwar

Assistant Professor

Sheffield Hallam University

About me

I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and co-investigator for the Secure Ontologies for IoT Systems (SOfIoTS) project. I am also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), UK, Senior Member IEEE and a member of the 4-Dimensionalism Special Interest Group (4DSIG) Network. I was a Research Fellow for Industrial/Cyber-Physical System Security Modelling at the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London (UCL), where I worked with Prof. Jeremy Watson. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher for the multidisciplinary project at the University of Manchester (UoM) and the University of Southampton (UoS), where I worked with Prof. Mark Elliot and Prof. Age Chapman. While working at UoM and UoS, I reviewed and developed provenance and ontological methods to model the security and privacy of sensitive streaming data.

I received the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Ilyoung Chong from the Department of Information Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea. I did the MS in Information Science and Technology from the Department of Computer Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

My research focuses on the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT)/Cyber Physical Systems Security Modelling, IoT-enabled Context-aware data processing, Semantic reasoning, and Artificial Intelligence. I am an Editorial Board Member of IASC - Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing Journal and the Managing Guest Editor for special issue on “Role of Disruptive Technologies in Modern Distribution Grid Automation” in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Journal and TPC for 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 4.0. Previously I was TPC for IEEE WCNC 2020, NCETIET-2020, IMTIC18, IEEE global communications conference (GLOBECOM), and IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). I regularly review articles for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Sensors Journal, Future Generation Computer System (FGCS), and other IEEE and Springer Q1 journals. Please get in touch with me if you are interested in my research and want to collaborate or pursue the Ph.D./Master’s degree.

Download my resume.[last updated 23.12.2021]

Interests
  • Internet of Things
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Digital Twin
  • Cyber Security
  • Semantic Web
  • Artificial Intelligence
Education
  • PhD in Information and Communications Engineering, 2020

    Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

  • MS in Information Science and Technology, 2016

    Quaid-i-Azam University

  • BCS(Hons) in Computer Science, 2004

    University of Sindh Jamshoro

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Jul 2022 – Present Sheffield, S1 2NU, UK
 
 
 
 
 
IASC - Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing Journal, USA
Editorial Board Member
Oct 2022 – Present
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CSSE - Computer Systems Science and Engineering
Guest Editor
Nov 2022 – Present
 
 
 
 
 
PETRAS National Centre of Excellence in IoT Systems Cybersecurity, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London
Research Fellow - Industrial/Cyber-Physical System Security Modelling
Nov 2021 – Jun 2022 London, WC1E 6JA, UK

Responsibilities:

  • Investigate the emerging security threats and potential impacts of cyber-attacks on industrial and building management systems (IBMS).
  • Investigating the application of ontological methods to securely combining and fusing information from IoT sensors with data frameworks associated with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
  • Liaise with industry partners to design, develop, and test an adaptive and secure ontological model for representing IoT-enabled socio-technical infrastructure system.
  • Contribute to the drafting and submission of quality publications to appropriate and reputed peer-review national and international conferences and journals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Department of Social Statistic, University of Manchester
Research Associate
Sep 2020 – Oct 2021 Manchester, UK

Responsibilities:

  • Investigate provenance models
  • Reasoning over provenance data
  • Data privacy and risk analysis
 
 
 
 
 

Responsibilities:

  • Project planning
  • IoT middleware development
  • Knowledge representation and analysis
  • Ontology modelling
  • Publishing research at appropriate venues
 
 
 
 
 
National Database and Registration Authority
Assistant Director Software Development
Aug 2005 – Jul 2016 Islamabad, Pakistan

Responsibilities:

  • Webservices development using open source technologies
  • Data driven e-government strategic application development
  • Big data analysis and management

News

Activities and Updates

  • [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's 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.

Projects

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Teaching

Supervising/Mentoring

Postgraduate
  • Academic year 2022¬2023
    • Semester 1
      • Research skills and dissertation
    • Semester 2
      • Research skills for computing
      • System design and development project
      • Computer programming
    • Semester 3
      • Research skills for computing
      • System design and development project (as module leader)
Supervising
PhD
  • 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 -).
Master
  • Hassam Mughal, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea (2017-2020).
Undergraduate
  • Sajjad Ahmed; Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan (2018-2021).

Services

Academic and Professional

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
Membership:
Current
  • Member, Senior Member IEEE (94189930)
  • Member, ACM (4513194)
  • Member, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), UK
  • Member Editorial Board Progress in Human Computer Interaction Journal
  • Member, HUFS International Alumni Association
  • Member, CS QAU Alumni Association
  • Member, USAID Pakistan Alumni Association

Past

  • Member, The Korean Institute of Communications and Information (2016-2020)
  • UoM Representative, National Postdoc, Steering Committee, United Kingdom (2020-2021)
TPC: Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Access
  • Springer, Neural Computing and Applications
  • Elsevier, Computer Networks
  • Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Elsevier, Computer Standard and Interfaces
  • Elsevier, Ad Hoc Networks
  • Elsevier, Digital Communications and Networks
  • Elsevier, Egyptian Informatics Journal
  • Taylor, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
  • Hindawi, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
  • MDPI, Micromachines
  • MDPI, Sensors
  • MDPI, Applied Sciences
  • MDPI, Electronics

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