Dr Sadiq Sani BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, CEH, ECSA

Dr Sadiq Sani is an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity. He received a PhD degree from The University of Sydney and professional education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and an EC-Council Certified Security Analyst. With several professional and industry certifications and training in cybersecurity and Information Technology (IT), he is a highly trained cybersecurity, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and Energy IT expert; with several years of industry experience and expertise ranging from penetration testing and countermeasures, through security architecture and engineering, to Industrial Control System (ICS) cybersecurity and network security. He is versed in the Internet of Things (IoT), and distributed ledger technologies (such as blockchain).

Dr Sani works closely with the industry, currently advising on cybersecurity, ICT, OT, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is the OT Lead for the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at the Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) at the University of Greenwich. CS2 is a UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. Dr Sani also leads multiple innovation and consultancy projects at CS2.

Prior to joining the University of Greenwich, Dr Sani was an industry-oriented researcher/project lead and a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, respectively. He focuses on industry research; his primary research interests include OT cybersecurity, applied cryptography, sustainable cybersecurity, IoT security and privacy, energy internet and smart grid/microgrid cybersecurity, energy security, distributed key management, risk assessments, IoT distributed ledger and cryptocurrency technologies, quantum cryptography, network and communication security, secure software engineering, and distributed federated learning.

Dr Sani is a member of EC-Council, ICS-CERT, ACS, IEEE, and ACM. He is a technical paper reviewer for IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TII, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE TrustCom, IT Professional, IEEE TEM, IEEE IoT-J, and ACM Computing Surveys. He holds key intellectual property in identity management, cryptocurrency, and distributed ledger technologies.