Research At COMSATS

Research in Information and Cyber Security

Dr. Mazhar Ali

	Designation:	Associate Professor
	Email:	mazhar@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Information and cyber security, cloud computing, formal analysis and verification

Academics/ Degrees

PhD (Information Security), North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, 2015.
MS (Information Security), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, 2009.
MCS, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2004.

Profile/Bio

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, since April 11,2022-till date
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus March 2010 to April 10,2022.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, June 2009 to February 2010.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore, March 2004 to May 2009.

Publications/Papers

2024

Journal

I.Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Yu Lei "Presenting a model for decentralized operation based on the internet of things in a system multiple microgrids" , Energy ,Volume 293 ,Page 130637 , 2024

2023

Journal

L. Yu,Dr. Mazhar Ali,T Maqsood,I.Khan "Smart Energy Monitoring and Analysis Method Based on Image Recognition Technology" , Traitement du Signal ,Volume 40 ,Issue 2 ,Page 657-665 , 2023

2022

Journal

Adil Adeel,Dr. Mazhar Ali,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,AN Khan,Tauqeer Khalid,Yaser Jararweh "A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authenticationscheme" , Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies , 2022

k S Awaisi,H A Khattak,Dr. Mazhar Ali,A Abbass,A Ahmad,A Khalid "Deep reinforcement learning approach towards a smart parking architecture" , Cluster Computing , 2022

S A Jan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,J.Shujah,N U Amin,A Abbass,M Maray "SELWAK: A Secure and Efficient Lightweight and Anonymous Authentication and Key Establishment Scheme for IoT Based Vehicular Ad hoc Networks" , Sensors ,Volume 22 ,Issue 11 ,Page 4019 , 2022

2021

Journal

Dr. Mazhar Ali,Assad Abbass,Dr. Usman Shahid,Samee U. Khan "SeSPHR: A Methodology for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in the Cloud" , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IF 7.928) ,Volume 9 ,Issue 1 ,Page 347-359 , 2021

T. Khalid,AN Khan,Mudassar Aslam,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,MAK Abbassi,M Zuraiz,JJPC Rodrigues "A survey on privacy and access control schemes in fog computing" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 4181 ,Issue 4181 ,Page e4181 , 2021

S. A. Jan,N. U. Amin,M. Othman,A. I. Umar,A. Basir,Dr. Mazhar Ali "A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Authentication Schemes in VANETs: Attacks, Challenges and Open Issues" , IEEE Access ,Volume 9 ,Page 153701 - 153726 , 2021

Conference

Syed M. A. H. Bukhari,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Tariq Khan "Social media, AI, and political affiliation" , International Conference on Innovative Computing (ICIC), 2021 , 2021

Dua Baig,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali,A Abbass,D Dancy,R Nawaz "Malware Detection and Classification along with Trade-off Analysis for Number of Features, Feature Types, and Speed" , International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2021 , 2021

Neeli Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,A Abbass "Malware Detection in Android via Neural Network using Entropy Features" , International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2021 , 2021

2020

Journal

D. Iqbal,A. Abbass,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,R. nawaz "Requirement Validation for Embedded Systems in Automotive Industry Through Modeling" , IEEE Access ,Volume 8 ,Page 8697-8719 , 2020

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar, S. A. Madani "A scalable model for real‐time venue recommendations using MapReduce" , Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience ,Volume 32 ,Issue 21 ,Page 5597 , 2020

Z. A. Al-Odat,Dr. Mazhar Ali,A. Abbass,S. U. Khan "Secure Hash Algorithms and the Corresponding FPGA Optimization Techniques" , ACM Computing Surveys ,Volume 53 ,Issue 5 ,Page 1-36 , 2020

Conference

H khalil,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid "Feature Selection for Unsupervised Bot Detection" , International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, iCoMET 2020 , 2020

M. Qazi,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali "Detection of Fake News Using Transformer Model" , International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET) , 2020

S Rehman,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali "Blockchain-Based Approach for Proving the Source of Digital Media" , International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET) 2020 , 2020

W Khan,S Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,M Jawad,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R Nawaz "AdaDiffGrad: An Adaptive Batch Size Implementation Technique for DiffGrad Optimization Method." , 14th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT) , 2020

2019

Journal

Anum Khurshid,AN Khan,F.G Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,J.Shujah,Atta Ur Rehman Khan "Secure‐CamFlow: A device‐oriented security model to assist information flow control systems in cloud environments for IoTs" , Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience ,Volume 31 ,Issue 8 ,Page e4729 , 2019

S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,K.Bilal,S. A. Madani, A. R. Khan "A load balanced task scheduling heuristic for large-scale computing systems" , International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering ,Volume 34 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1-12 , 2019

T. Khalid,AN Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,A. Adeel,A. R. Khan,J.Shujah "A fog-based security framework for intelligent traffic light control system" , Multimedia Tools and Applications ,Volume 78 ,Issue 17 ,Page 24595–24615 , 2019

K. Sattar,A. Abbass,M. Zareei,H. A. Khattak,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali,I. U. Din,Sajid.Shah "Towards a Fog enabled Efficient Car Parking Architecture" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Issue 1 ,Page 159100-159111 , 2019

Conference

Shad Muhammad,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali,L. Liu,M. ShardLow,R. Nawaz "Bot detection using a single post on social media" , WORLD CONFERENCE ON SMART TRENDS IN SYSTEMS, SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY , 2019

Aasher khan,Suriya Rehman,Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali "Synonym-based Attack to Confuse Machine Learning Classifiers Using Black-box Setting " , December 10, 2019 , 2019

Book/Chapter

S. Mughal,K. S. Awaisi,A. Abbass,Dr. Usman Shahid,I. Rehman,Dr. Mazhar Ali "A Reliable and Efficient Fog-based Architecture for Autonomous Vehicular Networks" , in Fog Computing: Theory and Practice, A. Y. Zomaya, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, New Jersey, USA. (Accepted and to appear.) , 2019

2018

Journal

Dr. Mazhar Ali,K.Bilal,S. U. Khan,B. Veeravalli,K. Li,A. Y. Zomaya "DROPS: Division and Replication of Data in the Cloud for Optimal Performance and Security" , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing ,Volume 6 ,Issue 2 ,Page 303-315 , 2018

Dr. Usman Shahid,Assad Abbass,Dr. Mazhar Ali,M. Jawad "On the Correlation of Sensor Location and Human Activity Recognition in Body Area Networks (BANs)" , IEEE Systems Journal ,Volume 12 ,Issue 1 ,Page 82-91 , 2018

Dr. Usman Shahid,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Assad Abbass,S. U. Khan,A. Y. Zomaya "Segregating Spammers and Unsolicited Bloggers from Genuine Experts on Twitter" , IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing ,Volume 15 ,Issue 4 , 2018

Conference

Dr. Usman Shahid,Assad Abbass,M. Jawad,Dr. Mazhar Ali,S U Khan "Convolutional Neural Networks as Means to Identify Apposite Sensor Combination for Human Activity Recognition" , 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, Washington D.C , 2018

Zeyad Oledat,Dr. Mazhar Ali,S U Khan "Mitigation and improving SHA-1 Standard Using Collision Detection Approach" , Frontiers of Information Technology, 2018 , 2018

2017

Journal

Dr. Mazhar Ali,S. U. R. Malik,S. U. Khan "DaSCE: Data Security for Cloud Environment with Semi-Trusted Third Party" , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing ,Volume 5 ,Issue 4 ,Page 642-655 , 2017

Dr. Mazhar Ali,R. Dhamotharan,E.Khan,S. U. Khan,AV Vasilakos,K. Li,A. Y. Zomaya "SeDaSC: Secure Data Sharing in Clouds" , IEEE Systems Journal ,Volume 11 ,Issue 2 ,Page 395-404 , 2017

AN Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,F.G Khan,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon " A comparative study and workload distribution model for re‐encryption schemes in a mobile cloud computing environment " , Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2017 ,Volume 30 ,Issue 16 ,Page e3308 , 2017

2016

Journal

Assad Abbass,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,S. U. Khan "Personalized healthcare cloud services for disease risk assessment and wellness management using social media" , Pervasive and Mobile Computing ,Volume 28 ,Page 81–99 , 2016

Dr. Mazhar Ali,S. U. Khan,A. Y. Zomaya "Security and Dependability of Cloud-Assisted Internet of Things" , IEEE Cloud Computiing ,Volume 3 ,Issue 2 ,Page 24-26 , 2016

S. M. Ali,Dr. Chaudhry Arshad Mehmood,B. Khan,M Jawad,U Faird,Dr. Jabran Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,N.Tareen,S. Usman,M. Majid,S. M. Anwar "Stochastic and Statistical Analysis of Utility Revenues and Weather Data Analysis for Consumer Demand Estimation in Smart Grids" , PLOS ONE ,Volume 11 ,Issue 6 ,Page e0156849 , 2016

Conference

Z. Mahmood,M. Nazeer,M. Arif,I. shahzad,Fahad,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Uzair Khan,S. U. Khan "Boosting the Accuracy of AdaBoost for Object Detection and Recognition" , 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) , 2016

2015

Journal

Dr. Mazhar Ali,S. U. Khan,AV Vasilakos "Security in Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges" , Information Sciences ,Volume 305 ,Page 357–383 , 2015

Shahbaz Akhter Abid,Atta Ur Rehman,Dr. Mazhar Ali "Merging of DHT-based Logical Networks in MANETs" , Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies ,Volume 26 ,Issue 12 ,Page 1347–1367 , 2015

AN Khan,MLM Kiah,Dr. Mazhar Ali,S. Shamshir,A. R. Khan "A Cloud-Manager-Based Re-Encryption Scheme for Mobile Users in Cloud Environment: a Hybrid Approach" , Journal of Grid Computing ,Volume 13 ,Issue 4 ,Page 651-675 , 2015

Conference

S. U. Khan,L. T. Yang,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,Assad Abbass "A Cloud Based Framework for Identification of Influential Health Experts from Twitter" , 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom), USA, 2015. , 2015

Book/Chapter

S. U. Khan,Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid,Assad Abbass "Software Piracy Control Framework in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems" , Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems, CRC Press , 2015

2014

Journal

Dr. Mazhar Ali "BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data storage services in mobile cloud environment" , The Journal of Supercomputing ,Volume 70 ,Issue 2 ,Page 946-976 , 2014

Dr. Mazhar Ali "A taxonomy and survey on Green Data Center Networks" , Future Generation Computer Systems ,Volume 36 ,Page 189–208 , 2014

Dr. Mazhar Ali "3D-RP: A DHT-based routing protocol for MANETs" , The Computer Journal ,Volume 58 ,Issue 2 ,Page 258-279 , 2014

Dr. Atta UR Rehman,Dr. Mazhar Ali,AN Khan "Pirax: framework for application piracy control in mobile cloud environment" , Journal of Super Computing ,Volume 68 ,Issue 2 ,Page 753-776 , 2014

Dr. Mazhar Ali,Dr. Usman Shahid "A survey on energy-efficient methodologies and architectures of network-on-chip" , Computers and Electrical Engineering ,Volume 40 ,Issue 8 ,Page 333-347 , 2014

Awards/ Appreciations

CIIT Scholarship for PhD from NDSU, USA

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