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
- 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 20121] {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 Committee Participation
- 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 - Mehdi Nobakht
Thesis Title: The Internet of Things: Securing Devices and User Data
University of New South Wales, Australia
November 02, 2018 - 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 - 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.
Course Name |
Programme |
CreditHours |
Duration |
Modern Programming Languages | Bachelors of Science in IT - BS(IT) |
4 |
6 Months |
Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems |
Bachelors of Science in CS - BS(CS) |
3 |
6 Months |
Spring 2007
|
* IT - Information Technology
* CS - Computer Science
* CE - Computer Engineering
* TN - Telecom and Networking
Linux Tools
- tgif: Draw and manipulate graphical objects (.obj) in an X11 (Command to install: sudo apt-get install tgi)
- PDF Studio: Adobe Acrobat equivalent for Linux (https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/)
- yEd Graph Editor: Powerful tool for diagrams (http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_download.html)