Shahid Raza, PhD
IEEE Senior Member

Postdoctoral Supervision (Current)

- Asreen Rostami, ERCIM Postdoc Fellow,  RISE Cybersecurity, Stockholm [May 01, 2020 - April 30, 2021]

Postdoctoral Supervision (Past)

- Simon Bouget, ERCIM Postdoc Fellow,  RISE Cybersecurity, Stockholm [Feb 01, 2019 - July 31, 2020]

- Sileshi Demesie, ERCIM Postdoc Fellow, RISE Cybersecurity, Stockholm [Jan 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019]

- Mudassar Aslam, ERCIM Postdoc Fellow, RISE Cybersecurity, Stockholm [November 01, 2018 - November 01, 2019]

- Chayan Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher, RISE SICS, Stockholm [June 01, 2016 - November 30, 2016]

PhD Students

Main supervisor

- Rikard Höglund, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [March 2021 - Spring 2025] {IoT Security}
- Samuel Lindemer, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [August 2019-2023] {IoT Security Auditing and Certifications}

- Han Wang, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [March 2019-2023] {AI and IoT Security}
- Anum Khurshid, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [March 2019-2023] {Software Security for IoT}
- Joel Höglund, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [May 2017 - Fall 2022] {IoT Security}

Co-supervisor

-  Zhitao He, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [April 2013 - Fall 2018] {IoT Security}
- Kasun Hewage, PhD student Uppsala University, Sweden [September 2012 - Fall 2019] {Network Secruity in Sensor Networks}
- Anass Sedrati, PhD student INPT Rabat, Morocco, and RISE SICS Stockholm [January 2016-Fall 2019] {Blockchain and IoT}

Master Thesis (Industrial)

Current

Previous

- Xuwei Gong, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Jan 2019 - Jun 2019)

- Samuel Tanner Lindemer, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Jan 2019 - Jun 2019)
- Simon Carlson, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Jan 2019 - Jun 2019)
- Alexandros Panagiotis Krontiris, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [Software Engineer at Curity]

- Santiago Aragon, Master studnet at TU Darmstadt, Germany [October 2017] {IT Engineer at ING Group Amsterdam}

- Arne Maximilian Kaul, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  [June 2017]
- Filip Forsby, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [September 2017] {Software Developer, Cybercom Group}

- Alexandre Peyrard, Master student, TELECOM Lille, France [June 2017]
- Johan Gasslander, MSc student at KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm [May 2017] {Programvaruutvecklare, Saab}
- Argyro Lamproudi, MSc student at Chalmers University of Technology [May 2017] {Microwave & Access Design Engineer, VICTUS Networks}
- Kiki Rizki, MSc student at Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium & KTH, Stockholm [September 2016] {Researcher at Ericsson, Stockholm}

- Renuka Challa, MSc student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway  & KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [June 2016] {Research and Development Engineer at Gemalto, Singapore}
- Rúnar Már Magnússon, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [September 2015] {Software Specialist at Advance Noden, Reykjavík}

- Tómas Þór Helgason, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [September 2015] {Software Solutions Expert at Nyherji, Reykjavík}

- Kirill Nikitin, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [June 2015] {PhD Student at EPFL Lausanne}

- Oriol Piñol Piñol, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, [November 2014] {Software Engineer at Yanzi Networks, Kista}
- Dharmini Shreenivas, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  [January 2014] {Software Engineer at Ericsson}

- Denis Sitenkov, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [June 2014] {Software Engineer at Williams Interactive AB, Stockholm}

- Hossein Shafagh, MSc RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany [August 2013] {PhD Student at ETH Zurich}

- Linus Wallgren, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [May 2013] {Software Developer at Scypho Stockholm, Sweden}

- Daniele Trabalza, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm [March 2013] {Software Engineer at Mideye AB Stockholm, Sweden}

- Vilhelm Jutvik, MSc Uppsala University, Sweden [January 2013] {CEO at Jutvik Solutions Uppsala, Sweden}

- Juan Héctor Sánchez, MSc KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm[March 2011] 

PhD Grading Opponent/Committee member

• Opponent
  Thesis Title: Securing the Internet of Things with Security-by-Contract
  PhD Student: Alberto Giaretta
  Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Dragoni
  University: Örebro University
  January 29, 2021
  
  
• PhD Student: David Samuel
  Title: Dynamic Secret Sharing in Wireless Network for Security Purposes
  Supervisor: Dr. Syed Taha Ali
  University: National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad
  September 18, 2020
  
  
• PhD Student: Muhammad Asad Khan Sudozai
  Title: Profiling Social Media Apps from Encrypted Traffic
  Supervisor: Dr Shahzad Saleem
  University: National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad
  December 23, 2019
  
  
• Opponent 
  Mehdi Nobakht
  Thesis Title: The Internet of Things: Securing Devices and User Data
  University of New South Wales, Australia
  November 02, 2018
  
  
• Opponent 
  Jun Young Kim
  Thesis Title: Secure Management Architecture for the Internet of Things
  University of New South Wales, Australia
  October 23, 2017
  
  
• Andrea Azzarà
  Thesis Title: Programming Abstractions for the Internet of Things: from Macroprogramming to Virtual Resources
  Main Supervisor: Dr. Paolo Pagano
  Real-Time System Lab, TeCIP Institute
  Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
  November 19, 2015
  
  
• Matteo Morelli
  Thesis Title: A System-Level Framework for the Design of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems From Synchronous-Reactive Models
  Main Supervisor: Prof. Marco Di Natale
  Real-Time System Lab, TeCIP Institute
  Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
  November 19, 2015

Visiting Lecture

• Cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT)  [3.0 hours]
  Malärdalen University, Västerås
  April 11, 2019
  
  
• Network Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 26, 2019
  
  
• Network Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 25, 2019
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• Network Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 12, 2018
  
  
• Network Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 19, 2018
  
  
• Network Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 06, 2017
  
  
• IoT Security [1.5 hours]
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  February 09, 2017
  
  
• Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things
  IoT Course in Uppsala University, Sweden
  January 26, 2015

Courses Taught

I have worked as a Lecturer in the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad Pakistan from June 2004 to August 2007. In CIIT I was mainly involved in teaching and thesis project supervision. During my professional career in COMSATS I have taught the following courses.

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