Key details
Dr Muhammad Waqas
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
Muhammad Waqas received his PhD degree with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2019. From Oct. 2019 to Mar. 2022, he was a Research Associate at the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.
Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, London, UK. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Australia. He has more than 100 research publications in reputed Journals and Conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
His current research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communication, vehicular networks, Fog/Mobile Edge Computing, Internet of Things and Machine Learning. He is recognised as a Global Talent in the area of Wireless Communications by UK Research and Innovation and Professional Member of Engineer Australia. He is senior member of IEEE, Professional Member of ACM, IEEE Young Professional, Member of Pakistan Engineering Council and PhD approved supervisor by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Responsibilities within the university
- Teaching
- Research
- Administrative Role
Awards
Research Grants
| 2022-2023 | Co-I, Deanship of Scientific Research Grant Under Large Group of Project (Grant No. RGP.2/201/43, 150,000 SAR (£32673) |
| 2020 – 2021 | PI - Beijing Municipal Postdoctoral International Exchange Training Introduction Foundation, Amount: 100,000 RMB, (£11197) |
| 2020 – 2021 | PI - China Postdoctoral Research Foundation, Grant No. 2020M670074, Amount: 80,000 RMB (£8957) |
| 2020 – 2021 | PI - Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation, Grant No. 2021ZZ077, Amount: 50,000 RMB (£5598) |
| 2019 – 2023 | Co–PI - Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 61801008, Amount: 306500 RMB (£34319) |
| 2021 – 2023 | Co-PI - Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Grant No. 4212015, Amount: 200,000 RMB (£22394) |
Recognition
Advisory Groups & Memberships
Senior IEEE member; Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), Young Professional IEEE, Professional Member ACM, Approved PhD Supervisor by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
Journal editorships
Associate editor: International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems.
Guest Editor: Special Issue “Blockchain and 6G Trustworthy Networking”, Applied Sciences, MDPI.
Guest Editor: Special Issue “Joint Sensing and Communication for Edge Computing Networks, AETiC.
Awards
Best Research Paper Award: Asia Symposium on Signal Processing, China 2021.
Invited talks
Speaker: Seminar at University of Bahrain on the Topic of “The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Next Generation Wireless Communications/Network Security.
Invited Speaker: The 11th International Conference on Computer and Communications management, Nagoya, Japan, August 4-6, 2023.
Invited Speaker: ICE CUBE Conference, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021.
Distinguish Speaker: ICE CUBE Conference, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021.
Session Chair: International Conf. on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, China, 2020.
Session Chair: International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies, Bahrain, 2022.
Research / Scholarly interests
Research Topics
- Wireless Communication (5G/6G)
- Vehicular Networks
- Cybersecurity
- Machine Learning
Research supervision
Doctoral Students
Akhtar Badshah (2022), “Blockchain-enabled secure communication in Smart Systems”
Hina Ayaz (2023), “Physical Layer Security in Vehicular Networks using Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”
Samiullah (2021), Reliable Emergency Messages Dissemination Schemes for Road Safety in Vehicular Adhoc Networks”
Yuan Meng (2021), Mobile Fog Computing Security: A user-oriented Smart Attack Defense Strategy Based on BQL
Master Students
Fengming Huang (2022), “A Revocable and Outsourced Multi-authority Attribute-based Encryption Scheme in Fog Computing”.
Nadia Ali (2021), “Emotion Prediction from Resource Constrained Language using Multilingual Bert Model”.
Jialin Wan (2021), “Defense Scheme Against Advanced Persistent Threats in Mobile Fog Computing”.
Liu Meng (2021), “The Allocation and Reuse Scheme of Physical Cell Identification Based on Maximum Degree First Coloring Algorithm”.
Qiangqiang Lin (2021), “Tracking Areas Planning Based on Spectral Clustering in Small Cell Networks.
Recent publications
Article
Zhang, Jiangjian , Ning, Zhenhu, Waqas, Muhammad, Alasmary, Hisham , Tu, Shanshan , Chen, Sheng (2023), Hybrid edge-cloud collaborator resource scheduling approach based on deep reinforcement learning and multi-objective optimization. IEEE Computer Society. In: , , , . IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Transactions on Computer ISSN: 0018-9340 (Print), 1557-9956 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2023.3326977).
Muhammad, Dawood , Tu, Shanshan, Xiao, Chuangbai, Alasmary, Hisham , Waqas, Muhammad , Rehman, Sadaqat (2023), Cyberattacks and security of cloud computing: a complete guideline. MDPI. In: , , , . MDPI, Symmetry, 15: 1981 (11) . pp. 1-33 2073-8994 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15111981).
Tu, Shanshan , Waqas, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi , Abbas, Ghulam (2023), Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE. In: , , , . IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing . pp. 1-12 1939-1374 (Online) (doi: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10265167).
Zhang, Jiangjiang , Gong, Bei, Waqas, Muhammad, Tu, Shanshan , Chen, Sheng (2023), Many-objective optimization-based intrusion detection for in-vehicle network security. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems . pp. 1-15 ISSN: 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.329600).
Tu, Shanshan , Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad (2023), EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ISSN: 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854).
Hammad, Muhammad , Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham , Waqas, Muhammad , Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023), A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Access, 11 . pp. 67626-6763 2169-3536 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913).
Zhang, Jiangjiang , Gong, Bei, Waqas, Muhammad, Tu, Shanshan , Han, Zhu (2023), A hybrid many-objective optimization algorithm for task offloading and resource allocation in multi-server mobile edge computing networks. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16 (5) . pp. 3101-3114 1939-1374 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2023.3268990).
Tu, Shanshan , Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad , Halim, Zahid , Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023), Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9) . pp. 11227-11236 ISSN: 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135).
Gong, Bei , Guiping, Zheng, Waqas, Muhammad (2023), LCDMA: Lightweight Cross-domain Mutual Identity Authentication scheme for Internet of Things. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10 (14) . pp. 12590-12602 2327-4662 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3252051).
Zhang, Jiangjiang , Ning, Zhenhu, Ali, Raja Hashim, Waqas, Muhammad , Tu, Shanshan , Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023), A many-objective ensemble optimization algorithm for the edge cloud resource scheduling problem. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing . pp. 1-18 ISSN: 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2023.3235064).
Badshah, Akhtar , Waqas, Muhammad, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam , Abbas, Ziaul Haq , Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf , Chen, Sheng (2022), AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In: , , , . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2) . pp. 1739-1755 ISSN: 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624).