Summary
Dr. Faiz Ul Islam serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Security at the Military College of Signals (MCS), NUST, Pakistan. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from UET Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2013; the MS and PhD degrees in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), P. R. China, in 2017 and 2023, respectively. Prior to joining MCS, he served as a TVF (09-2022 to 07-2023) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, CEME-NUST. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cryptography, and Network Traffic Analysis. He has published several research papers in well-reputed journals and conferences. Currently, he supervises 2 PhD and 3 MS students and serves as a committee member for several other students. Additionally, he holds administrative positions such as PhD Coordinator, Industrial Liaison Officer (ILO), Course Advisor, and Final Year Project Coordinator.
Academic Background
PhD
(Control Science and Engineering) Nanjing University of Science and Technology
January 01, 2018 - January 01, 2023
Honours and Awards
Publications
An Identi cation Algorithm Based on Fine Adaptive Adjustment of Access Probability for Industrial Internet of Things
June 04, 2026
International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems - Accepted
TopoSleuth, a decoy-based multi-layered defense framework for securing SDN topology discovery
December 01, 2026
Scientific Reports - Volume:16, Issue:1, Article Number: 8970
Enhancing Healthcare Data Integrity and Access Control Using Blockchain and Industry 5.0
October 15, 2025
IEEE Internet of Things Journal - Volume:12, Issue:20, Page(s):43630-43643
Optimized network-centric MPC using time-delay autoregressive model
May 12, 2025
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science - Pages 1-10
S2H-securing smart homes: A blockchain-based preservation approach
March 01, 2025
Internet of Things - Volume 30, Article Number 101523
An efficient key tag missing identification protocol for multiple regions in the Industrial Internet of Things
June 25, 2024
Physical Communication - Volume 66, Article Number 102409
Tracking and detection of basketball movements using multi-feature data fusion and hybrid YOLO-T2LSTM network
December 28, 2023
Soft Computing - Volume:2023, Pages: 18
A deep learning-based framework to identify and characterise heterogeneous secure network traffic
October 03, 2022
IET Information Security - Pages 1-15
A Hybrid Hand-Crafted and Deep Neural Spatio-Temporal EEG Features Clustering Framework for Precise Emotional Status Recognition
July 09, 2022
Sensors - Volume:22, Issue:14, Article Number: 5158
Performance Analysis of Wearable Dual-Band Patch Antenna Based on EBG and SRR Surfaces
July 01, 2022
Sensors - Volume:22, Issue:14, Article Number: 5208
VoIP Traffic Detection in Tunneled and Anonymous Networks Using Deep Learning
April 26, 2021
IEEE Access - Volume 9, Pages 59783-59799
Identifying VoIP traffic in VPN tunnel via Flow Spatio-Temporal Features
July 09, 2020
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering - Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 4747-4772
Image Encryption Scheme Based on 4D4W Hyperchaotic System
November 01, 2018
Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing - Volume 9, Number 6, Pages 1391-1403
Designing S-Box Based on 4D-4Wing Hyperchaotic System
February 21, 2017
3D Research - Volume 8, Issue 1, Article Number 9
Conferences
Kyber-KEM-Ascon: Benchmarking a Lightweight Post-quantum KEM on IoT Devices
May 25, 2025 - May 28, 2025
Sahar Shehzadi, Nathan Whaley , Ayesha Khalid , Abdul Ghafoor, Sadiqa Arshad, Faiz Ul Islam, Máire O’Neill ,
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Optimal Cryptographic Parameters for Privacy and Authentication in Industrial IoT (IIOT) - A Review
April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Qurat Ul Ain, Faiz Ul Islam, Shahzaib Tahir,
2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
Anomalous Executable Files Detection Using Random Forest Classification with SIEM Integration
April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Waqas Ahmad, Usama Mustafa, Faiz Ul Islam, Muhammad Faisal Amjad,
2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
A Multimodal Framework For Robust Propaganda Detection in Digital News Media
April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Swetha Manikandan, Qazi Mazhar Ul Haq, Faiz Ul Islam,
2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
A Robust Framework for Deepfake Detection Using Advanced Neural Architectures and Generalization Techniques
April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Nandhagopal Chandrasekaran, Qazi Mazhar Ul Haq, Faiz Ul Islam,
2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
TVF
CEME, NUST
September 01, 2022 - June 01, 2023
BSS Engineer
Egyptian Pakistani telecom services company (EPTSC), Pakistan
December 01, 2013 - July 01, 2014