Postgraduate Supervision

A record of the postgraduate researchers I have supervised (as Main or Co-Supervisor), spanning intrusion detection, IoT/industrial security, botnet research, federated learning, and related cybersecurity domains.

Sorted by (start) year, then alphabetically by name within each year.

Active Supervision

2025

Al Laila Marwah Haitham Khattab — PhD, since 2025, Main Supervisor Domain: VANET Security/Privacy — Thesis: “VANET Safety Applications: A Pseudonym-based Approach for Effective Security and Improved Privacy”

Al Majdi Bahaa Kareem Mohammed — PhD, since 2025, Co-Supervisor Domain: Cloud Security — Thesis: “Towards Secure Cloud Data Storage and Transactions Logs in Multi-Tiered Storage Media”

Algaragere Shatha Ahmad Ibrahim — PhD, since 2025, Main Supervisor Domain: Cybersecurity in E-Learning — Thesis: “Evaluation of Cyber-Security Effectiveness on E-Learning Applications: Mixed Methods Approaches”

Kusuma Ridho Surya — PhD, since 2025, Co-Supervisor Domain: Ransomware / Deep Learning — Thesis: “Ransomware Mitigation with Deep Convolutional Neural Network Method”

Muhamad Naim Bin Zol — MSc, since 2025, Co-Supervisor Domain: Drone Security / Machine Learning — Thesis: “Cybersecurity Implementation for Intelligent Traffic Drone Monitoring System Using Machine Learning Techniques”

2024

Aljabri Mohammed Juma Talib — PhD, since 2024, Main Supervisor Domain: Threat Intelligence Automation — Thesis: “Use Threat Intelligence to Automate Cyber Attack Response and Prevention”

Alshihi Nasser Khamis Juma — PhD, since 2024, Co-Supervisor Domain: Zero Trust / Cyber-Physical Systems — Thesis: “Cost-Effective Multi-Stage Maturity-Based Architecture for ICPS to Transit to ZT in Preparation for Smart Manufacturing”

Hasan Baraa Mohammed Hasan — PhD, since 2024, Co-Supervisor Domain: IoT Security / Machine Learning — Thesis: “Adaptive Security Mechanisms in IoT Environment Using Machine Learning”

Sanu Mettilda Ashish Jaisan — PhD, since 2024, Co-Supervisor Domain: IoT Protocol Security — Thesis: “Enhancing Security of ECHONET Lite Protocol”

2023

Ahmad Asnawi Bin Ahmad Shukri — MSc, since 2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: IoT Smart Infrastructure — Thesis: “Novel Implementation of 6LoWPAN-Based Street-Light-as-a-Service (SLAAS) Framework to Power Intelligent University Human Detection System”

Al Ghadi Tasneem Qasem Mohammad — PhD, since 2023, Main Supervisor Domain: Federated Learning / Intrusion Detection — Thesis: “A Robust CLS-Based Federated Intrusion Detection Framework for IoT Under Dynamic Data Poisoning Attacks”

Alsayyed Mohammad Mazen Abdullah — PhD, since 2023, Main Supervisor Domain: Disaster Network Routing — Thesis: “User-Mobility Optimized Routing Protocol for Enabling Autonomous and Self-Managing Disaster Communication Network”

El Omari Abdullah Abdelmonem M — PhD, since 2023, Main Supervisor Domain: IoT DDoS / Named Data Networking — Thesis: “IoT Infrastructure Vulnerability to DDoS Attacks: Addressing IP-Based Flaws with Named Data Networking Architecture”

Mithiiran Parthipan — MSc, since 2023, Main Supervisor Domain: P2P Botnet Dataset Generation — Thesis: “Generating Realistic Sality P2P Botnet Dataset Using Overlay Reconstruction Technique”

Muhammad Syahir Bin Kamal Fitri — MSc, since 2023, Main Supervisor Domain: Phishing Detection — Thesis: “Towards Robust Detection of Phishing Banking Sites Using Domain Features and Aggregated Visual-Text Similarity”

Wu Chia Chuan — PhD (Part-Time), since 2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: Fog Computing Security — Thesis: “Security-Driven Task Scheduling and Fragmentation Framework for Confidential Fog Computing”

2022

Al Mahayreh Abdullah Salamah Zaid — PhD, since 2022, Main Supervisor Domain: AI-Based Cyber-Attack Detection — Thesis: “Construction of an Adaptive Security System Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict, Detect and Deal with Cyber-Attacks”

Alwan Abdullah Abdulrahman Alwan — PhD, since 2022, Main Supervisor Domain: Disaster Network Routing — Thesis: “User-Mobility Optimised Mechanism for Autonomous and Self-Managing Disaster Communication Networks”

Anushri A/P S Jayasimhan — MSc, since 2022, Main Supervisor Domain: Intrusion Detection / Feature Selection — Thesis: “A Study on the Influence of Feature Selection Algorithms Towards the Effectiveness of Intrusion Detection Systems”

Maheswarha A/L S. Rajagopal — PhD (Part-Time), since 2022, Main Supervisor Domain: Blockchain / VANET — Thesis: “Blockchain Integration in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) with Lowest Transaction Confirmation Time and Hardware Requirement”

2021

Masri Kamal Hussein Ali — PhD, since 2021, Co-Supervisor Domain: Fog Computing — Thesis: “Efficient Resource Management and Dynamic Load Balancing in Geo-Distributed Fog Computing Environment”

2019

Sababathy A/L S Palanisamy — PhD, since 2019, Co-Supervisor Domain: Fog Computing Scheduling — Thesis: “Adaptive Multi-Level Scheduling Mechanism for Prioritized Task Execution in Fog Computing”

Graduated

2026

Amin Muhammad Iqrar — MSc, 2022–2026, Main Supervisor Domain: Federated Learning / Intrusion Detection — Thesis: “A Hybrid Ensemble and Multi-Model Aggregation Approach for Federated Learning Based Intrusion Detection Systems”

Devamekalai A/P Nagasundaram — PhD, 2021–2026, Co-Supervisor Domain: IoT Semantic Interoperability — Thesis: “Heterogeneous IoT Device Interoperability Using Fog-Based Adaptive Semantic Mechanism”

Nour Yaseen Nouri Almi’Ani — PhD, 2025–2026, Main Supervisor Domain: DDoS Detection / SDN — Thesis: “An Enhanced Deep Learning Approach for Detecting DDoS Attacks in Software-Defined Networking-Based on Intrusion Detection System”

2025

Abdijalil Abdullahi Mohamed — PhD, 2019–2025, Co-Supervisor Domain: Software-Defined Exchange Points — Thesis: “Adaptive Failure Recovery and Path Optimization for Multi-Hop Software-Defined Exchange Point Networks”

Nadia Adnan Abdallah Alfriehat — PhD, 2025, Main Supervisor Domain: IoT Routing Security — Thesis: “An Adaptive Dropout Artificial Neural Network-Based Approach for Detecting Version Number Attacks in RPL-Based IoT Network”

2024

Arkan Hammoodi Hasan Kabla — PhD, 2021–2024, Main Supervisor Domain: Blockchain Phishing Detection — Thesis: “Approach to Detect Phishing Scams in Ethereum Using Machine Learning Based on Ensemble Feature Selection Method”

Ashish Jaisan S M — MSc, 2018–2024, Co-Supervisor Domain: Industrial / SECS-GEM Security — Thesis: “Secured Communication Mechanism for Message Authentication and Data Confidentiality in SECS/GEM Protocol”

Erum Ashraf — PhD, 2019–2024, Co-Supervisor Domain: Educational Data Mining — Thesis: “Approach for Optimizing Course Recommendation Based on Integrating Modified Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model with Meta-Heuristics Algorithm”

2023

Ahmed Jameel Hintaw — PhD, 2018–2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: IoT / MQTT Security — Thesis: “Secure Hybrid Scheme for Securing MQTT Protocol Based on Enhanced Symmetric Algorithm”

Alanazi Sultan Tuwayrish S — PhD, 2018–2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: Security Compliance / Behaviour — Thesis: “Adopting Theories-Based Model of Information Security Compliance Behaviour for Healthcare Employees in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”

Ayman Ibrahim Ali Ghaben — PhD, 2017–2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: DDoS Detection — Thesis: “Statistical-Based Mechanism for Detecting Hyper Text Transfer Protocol DDoS Attacks”

Riyadh Rahef Nuiaa Al Ogaili — PhD, 2019–2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: DDoS / DNS Security — Thesis: “An Enhanced Mechanism to Detect DRDoS Attacks on DNS Using Adaptive Thresholding Technique”

Shams Ul Arfeen — PhD, 2019–2023, Co-Supervisor Domain: Industrial Security — Thesis: “Cryptographic Authentication-Based Mechanism for Securing SECS/GEM Communications for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing”

2019

Lial Raja’ Abdelkareem Missif — PhD, 2018–2019, Main Supervisor Domain: Wireless Sensor Networks — Thesis: “Probabilistic Event Detection Mechanism for Indoor Environment Using Wireless Sensor Network”

2018

Aun Yichiet — PhD, 2016–2018, Co-Supervisor Domain: Traffic Classification — Thesis: “Behavioural Feature Extraction for Context-Aware Traffic Classification of Mobile Applications”

2017

Narayanan Sambath — MSc, 2016–2017, Co-Supervisor Domain: VoIP DDoS Detection — Thesis: “A Hellinger Distance Based Algorithm to Detect Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on Voice over Internet Protocol Environments”