Research Network & Students
Collaborations & Supervision
My research network spans six countries and multiple institutions. I collaborate with researchers ranked in the top 2% globally by citation impact, and I co-supervise undergraduate research at IBA Karachi alongside Dr. Faisal Iradat, targeting Q1 journals and A* conferences.
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Academic Collaborators
Researchers and professors I have collaborated with across institutions.
Dr. S. M. Faisal Iradat
Assistant Professor · Head, TRL
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
Head of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at SMCS, IBA Karachi. 20+ years in cybersecurity, IoT, AI, and wireless communications, with 40+ publications and global collaborative leadership. My primary mentor and co-author on the majority of my submitted work, spanning the nested learning and federated learning programmes.
Dr. Haider Abbas
Tamgha-i-Imtiaz · SMIEEE · IET Fellow
Director General, National CERT Pakistan
Director General of Pakistan's National Cyber Emergency Response Team and former Tenured Professor of Cybersecurity at MCS-NUST. Awarded the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz for contributions to information technology. Led the national AI-SIEM initiative I contributed to. 8,000+ citations.
Dr. Mian Muhammad Waseem Iqbal
Assistant Professor · Top 2% Scientist
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat · NUST (on leave)
Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, previously Associate Professor at NUST. Top 2% Scientist globally. 75+ publications in information security, digital forensics, IoT security, and cryptography. Co-author on nested federated learning and wearable ECG classification work.
Dr. Yawar Abbas Bangash
Senior Lecturer · Tenured Associate Professor
Sunway University, Malaysia · NUST (tenured, on leave)
Senior Lecturer at Sunway University Malaysia and tenured Associate Professor at NUST. PhD from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Research spans SDN security, IoT, wireless sensor networks, and machine learning. Co-author on SafeNest and Bayesian nested optimisation for 6G Open-RAN.
Dr. Majdi Mansouri
Associate Professor · IEEE Senior Member
Sultan Qaboos University · Texas A&M at Qatar
Associate Professor at SQU and formerly Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M Qatar. 200+ publications in statistical signal processing, fault detection, and applied ML. Co-author of the Elsevier book *Data-Driven and Model-Based Methods for Fault Detection and Diagnosis*. Co-author on federated synchronisation and explanation stability under drift.
Dr. Nour Aburaed
Assistant Professor
University of Dubai, UAE
Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and IT, University of Dubai. PhD from the University of Strathclyde on single-image super-resolution for hyperspectral remote sensing. Previously at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre. Co-author on physics-informed RL for multi-timescale EV charging.
Research Supervision
Co-supervising 4 undergraduate research projects at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi alongside Dr. Faisal Iradat, targeting Q1 journals and A* conferences.
FedSRIMU
Spectral-Regularised Federated Unlearning for IoT IDS
Spectral-regularised federated unlearning for IoT-based intrusion detection, enabling selective client knowledge removal without full retraining.
Panopticon
Privacy Preservation in Distributed Information Systems
A proposal for privacy preservation in distributed information systems under realistic threat models.
HADES
Hierarchical Autonomous Digital Evidence System
Skill-driven multi-agent orchestration for digital forensics (companion UG work to the HADES paper under review at WI 2026).