ADNAN AKHUNZADA

Current Address: Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University

Malaya, Wisma R&D, Architecture Lab (Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)) Lab, Level 10,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cell: +92 3175086836

: +92 3355299236

A.qureshi@comsats.edu.pk

A.Adnan@siswa.um.edu.my

Akhunzadaadnan@gmail.com

Health: Excellent, Non-smoker

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I am an enthusiastic and dedicated professional with extensive knowledge across all areas of

information Security. I can follow instructions well and show performance with minimal supervision.

I can demonstrate a strong ability to manage projects from conception through to successful

completion. A proactive individual with a logical approach to challenges and perform effectively

even within a highly pressurised working environment. Believing that problem-solving skills, multi-

tasking, and effective team-working significantly increases efficiencies and productivity, whilst

decreasing downtime and reducing company costs. Now looking to make a continued significant

contribution and suitably challenging role within opportunities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PhD (Network Security) 2013-2016

Thesis Title: A Controller-agnostic Random Oracle-based Intrusion Detection Method in Software Defined Networks

Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Malaysia.

www.um.edu.my

MS (Information Security) 2006-2010 National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan

www.nust.edu.pk

BS With Distinction (Computer Science) 2003-2005 Gomal University, Pakistan

www.gu.edu.pk

Post Graduate Teaching in Higher Education Practice (PGCHEP) 2010-2011 University of Bradford, UK

www.bradford.ac.uk

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

ISI Indexed High Impact Factor Research Journal Publications

1. Akhunzada, Adnan, Khurram Khan, Muhammad. “Towards Secure Software Defined

Vehicular Networks: Taxonomy, Requirements, and Open Issues", IEEE Communication

Magazine, 13-Feb-2017 (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-10.43)

2. Akhunzada, Adnan, Ejaz Ahmed, Abdullah Gani, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Muhammad

Imran, and Sghaier Guizani. "Securing software defined networks: taxonomy, requirements,

and open issues." IEEE Communications Magazine 53, no. 4 (2015): 36-4", (ISI indexed, Q1,

Impact Factor (IF) 5.23)).

3. Alam, Quratulain, Saif UR Malik, Adnan Akhunzada, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Saher

Tabbasum, and Masoom Alam. "A Cross Tenant Access Control (CTAC) Model for Cloud

Computing: Formal Specification and Verification." IEEE Transactions on Information

Forensics and Security 12, no. 6 (2017): 1259-1268, (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact Factor - 2.43).

4. khunzada, Adnan, Abdullah Gani, Nor Badrul Anuar, Ahmed Abdelaziz, Muhammad

Khurram Khan, Amir Hayat, and Samee U. Khan. "Secure and dependable software

defined networks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications 61 (2016): 199-221. (ISI

indexed, Q1, IF 2.23)).

5. Akhunzada, Adnan, Mehdi Sookhak, Nor Badrul Anuar, Abdullah Gani, Ejaz Ahmed,

Muhammad Shiraz, Steven Furnell, Amir Hayat, and Muhammad Khurram Khan. "Man-At-

The-End attacks: Analysis, taxonomy, human aspects, motivation and future directions."

Journal of Network and Computer Applications 48 (2015): 44-57., (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact

Factor (IF) 2.23)).

6. Alam, Quratulain, Saher Tabbasum, Saif UR Malik, Masoom Alam, Tamleek Ali, Adnan

Akhunzada, Samee U. Khan, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, and Rajkumar Buyya. "Formal

Verification of the xDAuth Protocol." IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and

Security 11, no. 9 (2016): 1956-1969. (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact Factor - 2.43).

7. Ahmed, Ejaz, Adnan Akhunzada, Md Whaiduzzaman, Abdullah Gani, Siti Hafizah Ab

Hamid, and Rajkumar Buyya. "Network-centric performance analysis of runtime

application migration in mobile cloud computing." Simulation Modelling Practice and

Theory 50 (2015): 42-56. (ISI indexed, Q2, IF -1.02).

8. Sookhak, Mehdi, Adnan Akhundzada, Alireza Sookhak, Mohammadreza Eslaminejad,

Abdullah Gani, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Xiong Li, and Xiaomin Wang. "Geographic

wormhole detection in wireless sensor networks." PloS one 10, no. 1 (2015): e0115324. (ISI

indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-3.73)

9. Sookhak, Mehdi, Abdullah Gani, Hamid Talebian, Adnan Akhunzada, Samee U. Khan,

Rajkumar Buyya, and Albert Y. Zomaya. "Remote data auditing in cloud computing

environments: a survey, taxonomy, and open issues." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 47,

no. 4 (2015): 65. ", (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact Factor 5.3)

10. Alam, Khubaib Amjad, Rodina Ahmad, Adnan Akhunzada, Mohd Hairul Nizam Md Nasir,

and Samee U. Khan. "Impact analysis and change propagation in service-oriented

enterprises: A systematic review." Information Systems 54 (2015): 43-73, (ISI indexed, Q1, IF

1.8)

11. Sookhak, Mehdi, Adnan Akhunzada, Abdullah Gani, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Nor

Badrul Anuar. "Towards dynamic remote data auditing in computational clouds.", The

Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014) (ISI indexed Journal IF - 1.7).

12. Khan, Saif Ur Rehman, Sai Peck Lee, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Adnan Akhunzada, and Victor

Chang. "A survey on Test Suite Reduction frameworks and tools." International Journal of

Information Management 36, no. 6 (2016): 963-975, (ISI indexed, Q1, Impact Factor- 2.6).

13. Alam, Khubaib Amjad, Victor Chang, Rodina Ahmad, Muzammil Tahir, Adnan Akhunzada,

and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "Clustering and Classification techniques for Web service

discovery: A Systematic Review." International Journal of Information Management (2016),

(Accepted in ISI indexed Journal IF - 2.6).

14. "Nazir, Anam, Alam, Masoom, Malik, Saif U. R, Akhunzada, Adnan, Cheema, Muhammad

Nadeem, Khan, Muhammad Khurram, Ziang, Yang, Khan, Tanveer, Khan, Abid", "A high-

level domain-specific language for SIEM (design, development and formal verification)",

issn="1573-7543", doi="10.1007/s10586-017-0819-2", (Cluster Computing, Impact Factor-

1.51)

15. Alam, Masoom, Asif Ihsan, Muazzam A. Khan, Qaisar Javaid, Abid Khan, Jawad Manzoor,

Adnan Akhundzada, M. Khurram Khan, and Sajid Farooq. "Optimizing SIEM Throughput on

the Cloud Using Parallelization." PloS one 11, no. 11 (2016): e0162746, (ISI Indexed, Q1,

Impact Factor-3.73)

16. Liaqat, Misbah, Abdullah Gani, Mohammad Hossein Anisi, Siti Hafizah Ab Hamid, Adnan

Akhunzada, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Rana Liaqat Ali. "Distance-Based and Low

Energy Adaptive Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks." PloS one 11, no. 9 (2016):

e0161340, (ISI Indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-3.73)

17. Abdelaziz, Ahmed, Tan Fong Ang, Mehdi Sookhak, Suleman Khan, Athanasios Vasilakos,

Chee Sun Liew, and Adnan Akhunzada. "Survey on Network Virtualization Using OpenFlow:

Taxonomy, Opportunities, and Open Issues." KSII Transactions on Internet and Information

Systems 10, no. 10 (2016): 4902-4932. (ISI Indexed, Impact Factor - 0.56).

18. Ahmed Abdelaziz, Adnan Akhunzada, et al. Distributed Controller Clustering in Software

Defined Networks, PloS one, March. 2017 (ISI Indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-3.73).

19. Alam, Masoom, Adnan Akhunzada, “A Novel Internet of Things-centric Framework to Mine

Malicious Frequent Patterns,” Accepted for publication, 2017 IEEE Access (ISI Indexed, Q2,

Impact Factor-3.23)

20. Alam, Masoom, Adnan Akhunzada, “Formal Modeling and Verification of Security Controls

for Multimedia Systems in the Cloud",” Accepted for publication, 2017 MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

AND APPLICATIONS (ISI Indexed, Impact Factor-1.23)

21. Iyad Aqra, Adnan Akhunzada, et al. “A Novel Association Rule Mining Approach Using TID

Intermediate Itemset”, PloS one, March. 2017 (ISI Indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-3.73).

22. Shahid Hussain, Adnan Akhunzada, et al. “Implications of Deep Learning for the

Automation of Design Patterns Organization”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed

Computing, June. 2017 (ISI Indexed, Q1, Impact Factor-1.92).

Journal Q1Papers Under Review:

Note: Currently, some very high-quality papers are under-process in various Journals &

Transactions

Book Chapters:

1. Adnan Akhunzada, et al. Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Bridging the Gap for Network.

Non-ISI Journals, Conferences& Symposiums:

1. Ihsan Ali, Adnan Akhunzada, A Novel Data Segregation and Classification Technique to

Reduce Power Consumption in Wireless Body Area Networks, 2017, Accepted for

publication in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

2. Akhunzada, Adnan, Abdullah Gani, Shahid Hussain, and Arif Ali Khan. "A formal framework

for web service broker to compose QoS measures." In SAI Intelligent Systems Conference

(IntelliSys), 2015, pp. 532-536. IEEE, 2015.

3. Akhunzada, Adnan, Abdullah Gani, Shahid Hussain, and Arif Ali Khan. "Towards

experiencing the pair programming as a practice of the Rational Unified Process (RUP)." In

SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys), 2015, pp. 537-542. IEEE, 2015.

4. Adnan Akhunzada, “Cloud deployment of Extrusion Detection systems for proactive

monitoring and detecting Botclouds” 27th Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop

7-8 July 2011.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Dec 22, 2016

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad

I am currently working as an assistant professorship at the department of computer science,

COMSATS Institute of Information technology (CIIT), Islamabad. The primary responsibility is

teaching various international standard post-graduate and graduate level courses plus research

and development (R&D).

ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Apart from teaching & R&D, I am also working as:

In-charge Software Engineering (SE) and Telecommunication Network (TN) programme.

1. Team Lead for National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC)

Accreditation of BS(SE) program

2. Planning and overseeing the smooth conduct of sessional examinations

3. Involved in course allocation at the beginning of each semester

4. Assisting HoD in resource allocation and smooth running of the program

5. Review of exam question papers

6. Review of course folders

7. Preparing Mentor’s course evaluation forms

8. Guiding faculty regarding any issues in smooth conduct of the course

Head Counselling Committee BS (SE) & BS (TN)

1. Hold regular meetings with class counsellors

2. Address concerns related to class progress in different courses

3. Resolve conflicts between students and faculty

LECTURER Dec 28, 2011to Dec 21, 2016

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad

I have joined COMSATS Institute of Information technology (CIIT), Islamabad as a lecturer in Dec

11, 2011. As a Lecturer, my responsibilities involved teaching core and elective courses to under

graduates, conducting programming labs, preparing course folders and supervising student

projects.

ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Apart from teaching, I also worked as:

Chief Information Office of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

Committee

1. Hold regular meetings with faculty to attain the ABET Accreditation Criteria.

2. Applying ABET accreditation criteria on Curriculum.

LECTURER 2008 – Dec, 2011.

An Associate College of the University of Bradford, UK •Teaching & Learning International Standard Courses

1. Increased confidence in my own learning, in trying out new ideas, in changing their

practice and in their power to make a difference to their pupils’ learning

2. Improved team-work and greater flexibility in their use of teaching strategies

3. Increased awareness of new teaching techniques and greater insight into pupils’ thinking

4. Enhanced planning skills to ensure more effective content and pupil task match

5. Improved pupil motivation, self-confidence, and satisfaction with work

6. Achieving more effective and reflective teaching with student centered approach.

7. Accomplishing all the Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) with the alignment of teaching

learning activities (TLAs).

8. Better organization of work and increased sophistication in responses to questions

9. Another key element in achieving transparency is accountability and fairness when

carrying out evaluations.

10. Remain punctual throughout the semesters

11. Meeting all the assessment deadlines

12. Successful introduction of formative assessment, facilitating the intended learning

outcomes (ILOs)

13. Establishing & supervising academic projects.

14. Help and assigning current industry research projects at UG level.

ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Exam Chair: 2008 – 2010

I worked as an External Examination Officer of the University of Bradford.

1. Supervising all the exam activities internally and acting as a focal person for the University

of Bradford.

2. Scheduling the assessment, sending and getting approval of all the assessments from the

University of Bradford

Year Tutor: 2008 - 2010

1. Arrangement and election of student representatives to Staff-Student Liaison Committee

and discuss with them how best they might obtain whole class opinion.

2. Communication to the cohort of any course related information which falls outside the

scope of a single module.

3. Registration of the year group at the beginning of each academic year.

4. To arrange the schedule, content and delivery of induction sessions for new students.

5. Preparation of the coursework/assessment timetable in conjunction with unit

coordinators

6. Attending to matters of concern about units which students raise after having discussed

them with the responsible member of staff.

7. Provide assistance to the Courses Chair as requested.

8. Advise students experiencing difficulties referring them to University support services

where appropriate

9. To provide a formal link between the student cohort and the Courses Chair.

LECTURER 2007 – Dec, 2008.

Institute of Management Studies, University of Peshawar

•Teaching Various Standard Computer Science & Information technology Modules.

High Class Academic Certifications

1. Postgraduate Teaching in Higher Education Practice (PGCHEP), University of Bradford, UK

2. Micro-level Teaching Certification, Jan-Smith, University of Sheffield, UK

3. Full Length Faculty Development Training Program at COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

PGCHEP (Post Graduate Teaching in Higher Education Practice), UK 2009-2010 1. Successful completion of PGCHEP first module with merit

2. PGCHEP facilitate me to become a critical reflective teacher

3. Increased my collaborative reflection

4. Developing reflective teaching practices

5. Developing self-assessment/self-observation practices

6. Encouraging the spirit of healthy questioning

7. Be able to engage, motivate and enthuse students

8. Successful introduction of formative assessment

9. Learning and teaching new strategies and practices in Higher education (HE)

MICRO-LEVEL TEACHING CERTIFICATE, UK 7-12 February 2010

University of Sheffield, Jan smith

1. One Week extensive Micro-Level teaching skills program

2. Jan Smith is a well-known education consultant of the University of Sheffield, UK.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT ACADEMEY (FDA) 2-27 January 2012

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad

1. One-month extensive teaching & learning faculty development Program

2. This is a more practical teaching & learning program given by highly skilled educational

consultants.

3. Commitment to all around student’s development

AREAS OF EXPERTISE & Research

HP Latest VAN SDN Controllers, CloudSim, NS-2/NS-3, OP++Net, C/C++, JAVA, Mat lab,

Python, .Net & Scripting Languages

Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networks (SDNs)

Developing Secure APIs for Software Defined Networks (SDNs)

Design, Modelling, Analysis & Formal Verification of Cross Domain Access Protocols

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Cloud Computing

Computer Networks & System Security

Information Security Management (ISM)

Cryptography

Cryptanalysis

Machine Learning

Pattern Recognition

Mathematics & Number Theory

Extrusion/Intrusion in the Cloud

Design & Implementation of Secure and Large Scale Distributed Systems

Applied Security Research

DISTINCTIONS

1. Received distinction as a University Gold Medallist in BS program 2002-2005

2. Received over all Class Merit Scholarship for BS program

3. NUST Scholarship holder for MS (Info-Sec) by research Degree

4. PhD Scholarship under bright spark programme, University of Malaya, Malaysia

5. Namal Sponsorship program for PGCHEP,UK

6. Namal Sponsorship program for Micro Level Teaching Program

7. CIIT Sponsorship program for faculty development program

8. Best Paper Publishing Award in a high Impact factor Research Journal, IEEE

Communication Magazine (4.7), ISI Indexed

9. Best Paper Award at the University of Bradford, UKPEW27, UK, July 2011

10. Best Research Presentation Award, (Currently available on University Website), PGReS,

2015, University Malaya

11. Best Teaching Award of the year, Namal College, University of Bradford, UK

12. Chief Secretary of the ABET (American Board of Accreditation) Committee at CIIT,

Islamabad

13. Best player award for Inter-Campus football competitions

14. Head of the football coordinators CIIT, Islamabad.

PROJECTs SUPERVISED

1. Secure South-bound APIs for Software Defined Networks

2. A modified version of RSA with improved security

3. Real Time efficient Bot Detection Mechanism

4. Implementation of Secure Communication based on Elliptic Curves Cryptography (ECC)

5. Extrusion in the Cloud

6. Android OS security

7. Cross platform secure LAN Messenger

8. Secure LAN Messenger for smart phones

9. Android Smart Phone Theft Recovery Applications

10. A Mobile Agent Based Query Execution for Data Management in Cloud

11. Secure LAN Messenger for COMSATS

12. Customizable Centralized Online Feedback Management System for COMSATS

13. A dynamic Novel intrusion detection method in software defined networks

Various Projects are on-going and soon will be updated on completion.

JOURNAL REFEREE SERVICE

1. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

2. Computer Networks (COMNET), Elsevier

3. Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC), Elsevier

4. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

5. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier

6. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

7. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-TIS)

8. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

9. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

10. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

11. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

12. IEEE Communications Magazine

13. IEEE Communication Letters

14. Computer Communications, Elsevier

15. Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier

16. Information Sciences (INS), Elsevier

17. Information Fusion (INFFUS), Elsevier

18. Wireless Networks, Springer

19. Telecommunication Systems (TELS), Springer

20. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier

21. IET Security

22. Journal of Information Processing Systems

23. Wireless Personal Communications (WIRE), Springer

24. Journal of Network and System Management (JONS), Springer

25. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)

REFERENCES

1. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khurram Khan

FIET (UK), FBCS (UK), FFTRA (Korea), SMIEEE (USA),Editor-in-Chief, Telecommunication

Systems (Springer), Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), College of

Computer & Information Sciences, Building 31, King Saud University, P.O. Box 92144,

Riyadh 11653, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Email: mkhurram(at)ksu.edu.sa

2. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Bin Gani

Department Of Computer System & Technology

Faculty Of Computer Science & Information Technology

Email: abdullah@um.edu.my

3. Dr. Muzafar Khan

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

CIIT. Islamabad. Pakistan.

Email: muzafar_khan@comsats.edu.pk

4. Dr. Assad Abbas

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

CIIT. Islamabad. Pakistan.

Email: assadabbas@comsats.edu.pk

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adnan_Akhunzada

http://ww3.comsats.edu.pk/faculty/FacultyDetails.aspx?Uid=25565

https://scholar.google.com.my/citations?user=q3f_exYAAAAJ&hl=en

http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akhunzada:Adnan

http://mobcc.fsktm.um.edu.my/index.php/Adnan_Akhunzada