I currently hold a position as a Senior Lecturer in Digital Communications in Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering in Loughborough University. My current research interests are in decision making under uncertainty towards the provision of security and AI operations in converged IT/OT environments.

Current research areas:

• Security and AIOps in converged IT/OT environments:
  • Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing
  • Building Management Systems
  • Transportation & Logistics
• Network Security:
  • Understanding adversarial behaviour:
    • Multi-stage Attacks / Advanced Persistent Threats
  • Threat modelling
  • Network Behaviour Analysis
    • Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Encrypted Traffic Analysis

Research Skills/Expertise:

• Decision making and predictive analytics
• Evidence Theory (Dempster Shafer),
• Machine Learning
  • Support Vector Machines
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Reinforcement Learning
    • (Temporal Difference, Q-Learning)
• Situational Awareness: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA) loop
• Knowledge Representation:
  • Ontologies,
  • Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
• Network traffic analysis with signal processing techniques (Wavelet Transformation)
• Content delivery in Fog Networks

Practical Skills:

• Penetration Testing
• AWS
• ESXi virtualisation platform
• SQL databases, SPARQL
• Programming: Python, C, R, Matlab, Perl
• Website development: R Shiny
• Scripting languages: Bash, awk, sed
• Linux systems and services configuration:
  • DHCP, DNS, SAMBA, Apache, Cisco Nexus

My other websites are:

1. Loughborough University
2. GoogleScholar
3. LinkedIn
4. ResearchGate

My affiliation websites are:

1. Signal Processing and Networks Research Group
2. Advanced Virtual Reality Research Centre
3. Centre for Information Management