Dr. Adnan Ahmad
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Area of Interest: Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics, Distributed Systems, IoT
Tel # (Off): 111-001-007   (172)
HEC approved PhD Supervisor

ADNAN AHMAD holds a BS (Hons) and MS in Computer Science from GCU and LUMS, Pakistan, respectively. He also acquired PhD in Computer Science from Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand and Post-Doc from Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.

He has around eighteen years of teaching and research experience at various educational and research institutes. More than 45 peer-reviewed articles in renowned conferences and journals are on his credit including Trustcom, Computers & Security, ACM transactions, and IEEE Communication Magazine. He is an associate editor of 3 international journals, a reviewer of various IEEE, Elsevier, IET, and springer journals, and part of TPC of several prestigious conferences. He is also an external evaluator for National Ignite R&D fund, PITB research fund, DICE-IET, and many other international funding agencies. Moreover, he has organized multiple international workshops in Belgium, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Portugal, and Spain.

He has supervised 9 PhD, 16 MS thesis students, and several startup projects. He has also co-authored two books on emerging technologies in distributed systems. He is the founding in-charge of Center of Advance Research in Distributed Systems and Security (CARDS) research group & Cybersecurity Research Group (CSRG) at COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. His research interests include Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Penetration Testing, Distributed Systems, and Internet of things (IoT). Currently, he is performing his duties as Tenured Associate Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan.

Research Grants

Ignite National Technology Fund, Pakistan: E-Assessment System for C/C++ Programming Assignments, COMSATS University Islamabad, (2016-2018), PKR 11.1 Millions.

Higher Education Commission, Pakistan: Rethinking the video game experience, COMSATS University Islamabad, (2016-2018), PKR 0.5 Millions 

National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, USA: Knowledge management system, Washington University, USA, (2010-2013), $ 7,49,000

National ICT R & D Fund, Pakistan: Wavelet based video conferencing, LUMS, Pakistan, (2008-2010), PKR. 7.2 Millions


Scholarships and Honours

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Horizon2020 (2019)
  • Best Researcher Award, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand (2012)
  • Best paper award at 7th Annual IIMS Conference (October 2011)
  • 2nd best paper award at 8th Annual IIMS Conference (October 2012)
  • Massey University, New Zealand Travel Abroad Award (November 2012)
  • Massey University, New Zealand Travel Abroad Award (November 2011)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, award holder (August 2010)
  • Fully funded OKE scholarship for PhD (2010)

Workshop Organizer

  • 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Advancements and Technologies in Healthcare, November 7-9, 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Knowledge Management in Ambient Intelligent Systems, March 15-17, 2023, Leuven, Belgium
  • 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Advancements and Technologies in Healthcare, October 26-28, 2022, Leuven, Belgium
  • Knowledge Management in Ambient Intelligent Systems, March 22-25, 2022, Porto, Portugal
  • First International Workshop on Emerging Advancements and Technologies in Healthcare, November 1-4, 2021, Leuven, Belgium

Technical Program Committee

  • International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Sustainability and Intelligent Systems (2022)
  • International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (2022)
  • International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (2019)
  • IFIP SEC – IFIP Information Security Conference & Privacy Conference (2018)
  • International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (2018)
  • Frontier of Information Technology (2017)
  • International Conference on User Science and Engineering (2016)
  • 11th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (2016)
  • Emerging Trends and Innovations in Computing & Technology (2016)
  • International Conference on User Science and Engineering (2014)
  • International Conference on Digital Information Processing and  Communications (2014)
  • ACM 13th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (2012)
  • IEEE Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (2012)
  • IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology and Application (2012)
  • IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Application (2012)

Journal Associate Editor

  • International Journal of Emerging trends in Information Systems
  • Alexandria Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Innovation in Computational Sciences

Journal Reviewer

  • Elsevier Computers & Security
  • Springer Information Systems Frontiers Journal
  • International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
  • IEEE Access
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • Alexandria Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Information Technology & People
  • Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences
  • International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems

Publications:

Books:
1. Zeeshan, F., & Ahmad, A. (2023), "Recent Advancements in Smart Remote Patient Monitoring, Wearable Devices, and Diagnostics Systems", published by: IGI Global, Standard: 9781668464342   
2. Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (2012), "The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building technologies for communities", published by: The Interaction Design Foundation, pp: 236, Standard: 978-87-92964-03-8   
Book Chapters:
1. 1) Ahmad, A., Zeshan, F., Hamid, M., Marriam, R., & Samreen, A. (2022), "Application of Gamification in Modern Education", Handbook of Research on Promoting Economic and Social Development Through Serious Games , pp: 60-75   
2. Khan, S., Ahmad, A., & Humayoun, M. (2014), "Building an Effective Automated Assessment System for C/C++ Introductory Programming Courses in ODL Environment. ", Studies and Practices for Advancement in Open and Distance Education. Hong Kong, China.   
3. Whitworth, B., & Ahmad, A. (2012), "Design Spaces", Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by: M. Soegaard, & R. Dam, published by: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation, Denmark   
4. Whitworth, B., & Ahmad, A. (2012), "Online Rights", Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by: M. Soegaard, & R. Dam, published by: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation, Denmark   
5. Whitworth, B., & Ahmad, A. (2012), "Socio-Technical System Design", Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by: M. Soegaard, & R. Dam, published by: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation, Denmark   
6. Whitworth, B., & Ahmad, A. (2012), "The Evolution of Computing", Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by: M. Soegaard, & R. Dam, published by: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation, Denmark   
7. Whitworth, B., & Ahmad, A. (2012), "The Future of Computing", Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, edited by: M. Soegaard, & R. Dam, published by: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation, Denmark   
Journal Papers:
1. Muhammad Hamid, Furkh Zeshan , Adnan Ahmad , Saadia Malik , Muhammad Saleem , Nadia Tabassum and Muhammad Qasim (2022), "Analysis of Software Success Through Structural Equation Modeling", Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, pp: 1689-1701, Vol: 31, Issue: 3, DOI: doi:10.32604/iasc.2022.020898, Impact Factor: 1.647    (External URL)
2. Imran, M., and Adnan Ahmad (2021), "Enhancing data quality to mine credible patterns", Journal of Information Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211013693, Impact Factor: 2.410    (External URL)
3. Muhammad, T., and Adnan Ahmad (2021), "A joint sharing approach for online privacy preservation", World Wide Web , pp: 895-924, Vol: 24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211013693, Impact Factor: 2.892    (External URL)
4. Khalil, U., Adnan Ahmad, Abdel-Aty, A., Elhoseny, M., and El-Soud, M., and Zeshan, F (2021), "Identification of Trusted IoT Devices for Secure Delegation", Computers and Electrical Engineering, Vol: 90, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.106988, Impact Factor: 2.66    (External URL)
5. Zeshan, F., Adnan Ahmad, Abdel-Aty, A., Algarni, F., and Ahmad, A (2020), "A Hybrid Semantic Knowledge Integration and Sharing Approach for Distributed Smart Environments", Sensors , pp: 1-24, Vol: 20, Issue: 20, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20205918, Impact Factor: 3.275    (External URL)
6. Adnan Ahmad, Zeeshan, F., Marriam, R. Samreen A., and Ahmed, S (2020), "Does one size fit all? Investigating the effect of group size and gamification on learners’ behaviors in higher education", Journal of Computing in Higher Education, pp: 297-327, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-020-09266-8, Impact Factor: 2.63    (External URL)
7. Adnan Ahmad, Alzahrani, S., Ahmed, N. and Ahsan, T (2020), "A delegation model for SDN-driven federated cloud", Alexandria Engineering Journal, pp: 3653-3663, Vol: 59, Issue: 5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2020.06.018, Impact Factor: 2.46    (External URL)
8. Hamid, M., Zeshan, F., Adnan Ahmad, Ahmed, F., Hamza, A., Khan, Z. A., Munawar, S. and Aljuaid, H (2020), "An Intelligent Recommender and Decision Support System (IRDSS) for Effective Management of Software Projects", IEEE Access, pp: 140752 - 140766, Vol: 8, ISSN: 2169-3536, DOI: DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3010968, Impact Factor: 4.09    (External URL)
9. Samreen, A., Adnan Ahmad, Zeshan, F., Ahmad, F., Ahmed, S. and Khan, Z. A. (2020), "A Collaborative Method for Protecting Teens against Online Predators over Social Networks: A Behavioral Analysis", IEEE Access, Impact Factor: 4.09    (External URL)
10. Adnan Ahmad, Zeeshan, F., Khan, M. S., Marriam, R., Ali, A., and Samreen, A. (2020), "The Impact of Gamification on Learning Outcomes of Computer Science Majors", ACM Transactions on Computing Education, pp: 1-25, Vol: 20, Issue: 2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3383456, Impact Factor: 1.721    (External URL)
11. Adnan Ahmad, Azhar, A., Naqvi, S., Nawaz, A., Arshad, S., and Zeshan, F (2020), "A methodology for Sender-Oriented Anti-Spamming", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems , pp: 2765-2776, Vol: 38, Issue: 3, DOI: DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-179562, Impact Factor: 1.851    (External URL)
12. Muhammad Hamid, Furkh Zeshan, Adnan Ahmad, Saima Munawar, Munwar Ali, Esma Aimeur (2020), "Intelligent Recommender and Decision Support System for Effective Handling of IT Projects ", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, pp: 2635-2647, Vol: 38, Issue: 3, DOI: DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-179550, Impact Factor: 1.851    (External URL)
13. Dar, Z., Adnan Ahmad, Khan, F., Zeshan, F., Iqbal, R., Sherazi, H., and Bashir, A (2019), "A Context-Aware Encryption Protocol Suite for Edge Computing based IoT Devices", Journal of Supercomputing, pp: 2548-2567, Vol: 76, Issue: 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-019-03021-2, Impact Factor: 2.469    (External URL)
14. Adnan Ahmad, Brian Whitworth, Furkh Zeshan, Lech Janczewski, Munwar Alid, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary and Robert Friedman (2019), "A relation-aware multiparty access control", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, pp: 227-239, Vol: 37, Issue: 1, DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-179080, Impact Factor: 1.851    (External URL)
15. Zeshan, F., Mohamad, R., Ahmad, N. Othman, M. B., Elhag, A., Hussain, S. A., Adnan Ahmad, Ali, A., Ashraf, M., Babar, I. (2019), "Context-Aware Ontology and Web Services Discovery for Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems", Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, pp: 186-208, Vol: 32, Issue: 3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22452/mjcs.vol32no3.2, Impact Factor: 0.723    (External URL)
16. Hamid, M., Zeshan, F., Adnan Ahmad, and Aimeur, E. (2019). (2019), "Factors Contributing in Failures of Software Projects", International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, pp: 62-77, Vol: 19, Issue: 5, Impact Factor: ISI    (External URL)
17. Ahmed, S., Javaid, S., Niazi, M.F., Alam, A., Adnan Ahmad, Baig, M. A., Khan, H. K & Ahmed, T. (2018), "A qualitative analysis of context-aware ubiquitous learning environments using Bluetooth beacons", Technology, Pedagogy and Education, pp: 53-71, Vol: 28, Issue: 1, DOI: DOI: 10.1080/1475939X.2018.1557737, Impact Factor: 1.58    (External URL)
18. Ali, A., Yaqoob, I., Ahmed, E., Imran, M., Adnan Ahmad, Hussain, S. A., and Guizani, M. (2018), "Channel Clustering and QoS Level Identification Scheme for Multi-Channel Cognitive Radio Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, pp: 164-171, Vol: 56, Issue: 4, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700752, Impact Factor: 10.4    (External URL)
19. Adnan Ahmad, Whitworth, B., Zeshan, F., Bertino, E., and Friedman, R (2017), "Extending social networks with delegation", Computers & Security, pp: 546-564, Vol: 70, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2017.07.010, Impact Factor: 2.849    (External URL)
20. Furkh Zeshan, Radziah Mohamad, Mohammad Nazir Ahmad, Syed Asad Hussain, Adnan Ahmad, Imran Raza (2017), "Ontology-based service discovery framework for dynamic environments", IET Software, pp: 64-74, Vol: 11, Issue: 2, DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2016.0048 , Impact Factor: 0.733    (External URL)
21. Zeshan, F., Mohamad, R., Ahmad, N. Othman, M. B., Jubrail, S. A., Hussain, S. A., Ahmad, A., Ali, A., Ashraf, M., Babar, I. (2017), "Context-Aware Ontology and Web Services Discovery for Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems", Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Impact Factor: 0.6    (External URL)
22. Mushtaq, M., Ahmad, A., Mirza, H.T. and Hussain, I. (2014), "A Trust Development Model in Dynamic Ridesharing", Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences   
23. Mushtaq, M., Ahmad, A., Mirza, H.T. & Hussain, I (2014), "Formal Verification and Implementation for Developing Trust in Ride Share Systems", Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences   
Conference Papers:
1. Hamid, M., Zeshan, F., & Ahmad, A. (2021) "Fuzzy Logic-based Expert System for Effort Estimation in Scrum Projects", International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application   
2. Fatima, R., Zeshan, F., Ahmad, A., Hamid, M., Ahmad, A., & Afzal, S. (2021) "Software Requirements Change Prediction Model", International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application   
3. Samreen, A., Ahmad, A., & Zeshan, F. (2020) "Searching for Truth in the Post-Truth age", IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences   
4. Khan, S., Ahmad, A., & Humayoun, M. (2014) "A Survey of Current Opportunities for Developing Automated Assessment System for C/C++ Programing Assignments. ", Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), Hong Kong.   
5. Ahmad, A., Whitworth, B., & Janczewski, L. (2012) "A Framework of Rights Allocation in Online Social Networks", International Conference on Advances in Information Technology   
6. Whitworth, B., Janczewski, L., & Ahmad, A. (2012) "A Logic of Creation in Online Social Networks ", The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing   
7. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2012) "A Reduction Tree for Social Networks. ", 8th Annual IIMS Conference.   
8. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2012) "Characteristics of an Access Control Model for Online Social Networks.", New Zealand Information Science Doctoral Conference   
9. Ahmad, A., & B. Whitworth (2012) "COAT: Collaborative Outgoing Anti-spamming technique", International Conference on Advances in Information Technology   
10. Ahmad, A., Whitworth, B., & Janczewski, L. (2012) "Dynamic Rights Reallocation in Social Networks", Human Factors in Information Security and Assurance, in International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC’12)   
11. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2012) "Ethical Issues in Online Social Networks.", International Conference on Networks and Information   
12. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2012) "Future Directions in Access Control for Online Social Networks", International Conference on Networks and Information   
13. Ahmad, A., Whitworth, B., & Janczewski, L. (2012) "More Choices, More Control: Extending Access Control by Meta-Rights Reallocation.", Trust, Security and Privacy in e-Government, e-Systems & Social Networking, in IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2012)   
14. Ahmad, A., Noor, H., & Khan, N. (2011) "A Novel Video Coding Scheme for Lossy Networks with Scalable Bit-stream", International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP 2011)   
15. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2011) "Access Control Taxonomy for Social Networks", International Conference of Information Assurance and Security   
16. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2011) "Addressing Technical Complexity in Social Networks", 7th Annual IIMS Conference   
17. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2011) "Distributed Access Control for Social Networks", International Conference of Information Assurance and Security   
18. Ahmad, A., & Whitworth, B. (2011) "Towards an Access Control Model for Social Networks", New Zealand Information Science Doctoral Conference   
19. Ahmad, A., Hussnain, M., Nazir, A., Khan, N., & Masud, S. (2010) "Open Source Wavelet Based Video Conferencing System using SIP", International Conference on Information Society (I-Society 2010)   

Qualification

PhD
Massey University, New Zealand
2013
   
MS
LUMS, Pakistan
2009
   
BCS (Hons.)
Govt. College University, Lahore, Pakistan
2005
   

Experience

Tenured Associate Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad
2020 to Date
   
Post-doc
European Commission EASME Horizon2020
2019 to 2020
   
Assistant Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad
2013 to 2020
   
Research Associate
LUMS
2007 to 2010
   
Software Engineer
Software and Solution Connect
2005 to 2007
   
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