Dr Sarmadullah Khan

Dr Khan is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at Cyber Technology Institute (CTI), De Montfort University, UK. He joined DMU in December 2017. Since June 2018, Dr Khan is leading four MSc programmes (1) MSc Cyber Security, (2) MSc Cyber Technology, (3) MSc Professional Practice in Digital Forensics and Security, and (4) MSc Software Engineering. Dr Khan main role comprises academic leadership and management of the delivery and development of the programme. He liaises with the module leaders for the planning and management of the programme and appropriate approach for innovative teaching and assessment methodologies. He ensures the implementation of agreed policies and procedures and all students in the programme are provided with appropriate support. He acts and responds to identified quality improvement needs at the programme level.

Dr Khan successfully led the NCSC Full certification process for MSc Cyber Technology & Cyber Security programmes. Also, Dr Khan contributed to the recognition process of Cyber Technology Institute (CTI) of the De Montfort University as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). Dr Khan supervised 1-PhD student to completion in 2020. Currently, he is involved in in supervising 7-PhD student.

Dr Khan’s current research activities include cryptography, key management, block-chain adaptation in the development of the security algorithms to provide authenticity and privacy for Internet of Things (IoTs) application, smart grid applications and content centric networking. Before joining De Montfort University, he was a PostDoc research fellow at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His PostDoc research activities were focused on developing security algorithms for IoT devices, more specifically, focusing on the resource constrained devices. 

Key areas of cyber security research: Cryptography and key management, Internet of Things (IoTs), Content Centric Networks (CCN), Blockchain and attribute based encryption, Smart Grid, Digital Forensics

Main contributions to cyber security research: Dr Khan has more than 10 years of research experience in cryptography and networking and cyber security. He has a good knowledge of using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Edwards Curve Cryptography and Public Key infrastructure in developing key establishment and management techniques for various IoT and WSN applications. He contributed in a few national/international European research projects by developing a key establishment and management algorithms. He does collaborate with many foreign universities and research institutes (i.e. Politecnico di Torino, Queen’s University Belfast, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, University of Luxembourg, King Abdulaziz University, King Saud University, COMSATS, NUST, UoT). He has authored/co-authored several scientific research publications in numerous international venues. 

My long-term research goal is to develop a mechanism that ensures access control, authenticity, integrity and privacy of both devices and data in IoT using blockchain, physically unclonable functions and attribute-based mechanisms.

Cyber Security Centre and Internet of Things Security

Secure Communication Architecture for Dynamic Energy Management in Smart Grid
S Khan, R Khan, AH Al-Bayatti
IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal, 2019

VANSec: Attack Resistant VANETs Security Algorithm in terms of Trust Computation Error and Normalized Routing Overhead

S Ahmed, MU Rehman, A Ishtiaq, S Khan, A Ali, S Begum
Journal of Sensors 2018, 17, 2018

Multiple authorities attribute-based verification mechanism for Blockchain mircogrid transactions

S Khan, R Khan
Energies 11 (5), 1154, 2018

Elgamal Elliptic Curve Based Secure Communication Architecture for Microgrids

S Khan, R Khan
Energies 11 (4), 759, 2018

ARV2V: Attack resistant vehicle to vehicle algorithm, performance in term of end-to-end delay and trust computation error in VANETs

MU Rehman, S Ahmed, SU Khan, S Begum, A Ishtiaq
2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering …, 2018

Quantized adaptive decentralized control for interconnected nonlinear systems with actuator faults

W Khan, Y Lin, SU Khan, N Ullah
Applied Mathematics and Computation 320, 175-189, 2018

Design and implementation of an automated network monitoring and reporting back system
R Khan, SU Khan
Journal of Industrial Information Integration 9, 24-34, 2018

1. Internet of Things Security (IoT security)
2. Wireless sensor networks security
3. Content centric networks security
4. Key establishment and management

1. Network Security
2. Cryptography
3. Communication Systems
4. Mobile and Sensor Network
5. Cyber Engineering

PhD

Cyber Engineering, Digital Investigation, Malware Analysis, Windows Security, Linux Security

MS leading to PhD scholarship from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. (2008-2012)

IEEE member, Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCertHE)

1. International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), December 2015, Peshawar, Pakistan
2. The 5th International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE-2014), Coventry, Great Britain, October 6-7, 2014
3. The 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN '13). November 2013, Askaray,Turkey, 376-379
4. Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2012 10th International Conference on, Islamabad, 2012, pp. 257-260
5. 2011 6th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS), Timisoara, 2011.
6. Information Society (i-Society), 2011 International Conference on, London, 2011.

Rafiullah Khan, Sarmad Ullah Khan, “Design and Implementation of an Automated Network Monitoring and Reporting Back System”, Journal of Industrial Information Integration.

R. Khan and S.U. Khan, “Design and Implementation of UPnP-based Energy Gateway for Demand Side Management in Smart Grid”, in Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2017.

R. Khan and S. U. Khan, "Reducing Energy Waste Due to Idle Network Devices," in IEEE Potentials, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 37-45, Sept.-Oct. 2017.

R. Khanand S.U. Khan, “Energy Saving Through Intelligent Coordination Among Daily Used Fixed and Mobile Devices”, in Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, vol. 14, pp 43-57, June 2017.

R. Khanand S.U. Khan, “Design and Implementation of Ad-Hoc Collaborative Proxying Scheme for Reducing Network Energy Waste”, in Elsevier Journal on Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 3, issue 2, pp 118-128, May 2017.

W. Khan, Y. Lin and S. U. Khan, "Decentralized adaptive quantized control for a class of interconnected nonlinear systems with actuator faults and input saturation" 2017 36th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Dalian, 2017, pp. 1359-1366

W. Khan, Y. Lin and S. U. Khan, "Robust tracking control for a class of multivariable nonlinear systems with input quantization," 2017 IEEE/ACIS 16th International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS), Wuhan, 2017, pp. 317-322

Mehraban Khan, Zahid Ullah, Qazi Mudassir, Sarmad Ullah Khan, “Address Resolution Protocol Caching using Optimized RAM-Based CAM”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol.14, No.08, August 2016, ISSN 1947-5500

Rafiullah Khan, Sarmad Ullah Khan, Achieving Energy Saving through Proxying Applications on behalf of Idle Devices, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 83, 2016, Pages 187-194, ISSN 1877-0509.

Sarmad Ullah Khan, Luciano Lavagno, Claudio Pastrone, M.A. Spirito, "Online Authentication and Key Establishment Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2014, Article ID 718286, 11 pages, 2014

Main-Supervisor: Design and Implementation of Privacy and Data Security protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) Based Healthcare Application. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Test Methodology for Hardware in the Loop Tests of Car2X-Systems. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Improving Road Safety for Vulnerable Road Users. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Research in Service Innovation of Blockchain Customs Services. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Cyber Security & Law within Industrial Internet of Things. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Enhancing Digital Forensics Readiness in the Internet of Things. (In Progress)

Co-supervisor:  Optimization the Size of 3D Stereoscopic Film by using Multiwavelet Transform after Removing Disappear Areas. (In Progress)