Summary
Dr. Shahzaib Tahir is an academician and a Serial Entrepreneur. He did his PostDoc and PhD in Information Engineering from City, University of London, UK and MS in Information Security from NUST. He enjoys doing research in the domains of Cloud Security, privacy-preserving techniques and applied cryptography. He is an HEC Approved PhD supervisor. He has published several research papers in journals/ conferences of repute and has been granted US and UK Patents in cloud security.
Academic Background
PhD
(Cloud Security) City University of London
January 04, 2016 - January 15, 2019
Honours and Awards
FDP
School / College Best Researcher Award -2022
Publications
Blockchain-enabled Secure Communication Framework for Enhancing Trust and Access Control in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
June 04, 2026
IEEE Access - 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
A Hybrid Transformer–CNN Framework for Semantic Behavioral Modeling in Office Malware Detection
February 01, 2026
Security and Privacy - Volume 9, Issue 1, Article Number e70165
Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Intelligent Healthcare: Research Challenges and Opportunities
January 08, 2026
ACM Computing Surveys - olume 58, Issue 7, Article Number 170
A Defensive Model and Implementation Baseline for the Metaverse and Extended Reality Systems
August 29, 2025
PeerJ Computer Science - Volume 11, Article Number e3054
Unveiling the Dynamic Landscape of Digital Forensics: The Endless Pursuit
December 11, 2024
Computers - Volume 13(12), Article Number 333
AdamW+: Machine Learning Framework to Detect Domain Generation Algorithms for Malware
June 11, 2024
IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 79138-79150
Advancing Snort IPS to Achieve Line Rate Traffic Processing for Effective Network Security Monitoring
May 07, 2024
IEEE Access - Volume 12, Pages 61848-61859
Privacy Preserving Inference for Deep Neural Networks: Optimizing Homomorphic Encryption for Efficient and Secure Classification
January 22, 2024
IEEE Access - Volume:12, Page:15684-15695
Privacy Preserving and Serverless Homomorphic-based Searchable Encryption as a Service (SEaaS)
October 23, 2023
IEEE Access - Volume 11, Pages 115204-115218
A homomorphic approach for security and privacy preservation of Smart Airports
April 01, 2023
Future Generation Computer Systems - Volume 141, Pages 500-513
A Novel Image-Based Homomorphic Approach for Preserving the Privacy of Autonomous Vehicles Connected to the Cloud
February 01, 2023
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems - Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 1936-1948
A Novel Approach to Reduce Breaches of Aircraft Communication Data
December 30, 2022
Electronics - Volume 12, Issue 1, Article Number 172
Privacy-Preserving Computing via Homomorphic Encryption: Performance, Security, and Application Analysis
November 07, 2022
Handbook of Research on Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges for Business and FinTech Applications - Chapter 15, Pages 288-313
Security and Privacy Guidelines for IT Operations Under Pandemics and Epidemics
November 07, 2022
Handbook of Research on Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges for Business and FinTech Applications - Chapter 7, Pages 130-145
Cloud Ecosystem-Prevalent Threats and Countermeasures
November 07, 2022
Handbook of Research on Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges for Business and FinTech Applications - Chapter 8, Pages 146-173
A portable hardware security module and cryptographic key generator
November 01, 2022
Journal of Information Security and Applications - Volume 70, Article Number 103332
A novel searchable encryption scheme to reduce the access pattern leakage
August 01, 2022
Future Generation Computer Systems - Volume 133, Pages 338-350
ENCVIDC: an innovative approach for encoded video content classification
June 21, 2022
Neural Computing and Applications - Pages 1-18
A Novel Homomorphic Approach for Preserving Privacy of Patient Data in Telemedicine
June 11, 2022
Sensors - Volume 22(12), Article Number 4432
HLSBD2: a quantum secure hybrid level source based data deduplication for the cloud
May 17, 2022
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing - Pages 1-14
Water Is a Viable Data Storage Medium: A Security and Privacy Viewpoint
March 05, 2022
Electronics - Volume 11(5), Article Number 818
FBASHI: Fuzzy and Blockchain-Based Adaptive Security for Healthcare IoTs
February 11, 2022
IEEE Access - Volume 10, Pages 15644-15656
A novel ICMetric public key framework for secure communication
December 01, 2021
Journal of Networks and Computer Applications - Volume 195, Article Number 103235
Privacy-preserving COVID-19 Contact Tracing using Blockchain
October 02, 2021
Journal of Communications and Networks - -
A novel trust management model for edge computing
September 14, 2021
Complex & Intelligent Systems - Pages 1-17
PUF-Based Key Generation Scheme for Secure Group Communication Using MEMS
July 15, 2021
Electronics - Volume 10(14), Article Number 1691
Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare
May 20, 2021
Sensors - Volume 21(10), Article Number 3556
A new secure authentication based distance bounding protocol
May 06, 2021
PeerJ Computer Science - Volume 7, Article Number e517
Malicious Insider Attack Detection in IoTs Using Data Analytics
January 17, 2020
IEEE Access - Volume 8, Pages 11743 - 11753
Key-Based Cookie-Less Session Management Framework for Application Layer Security
September 11, 2019
IEEE Access - Volume 7, Pages 128544-128554
Fuzzy keywords enabled ranked searchable encryption scheme for a public Cloud environment
January 01, 2019
Computer Communications - Volume 133, Pages 102-114
A parallelized disjunctive query based searchable encryption scheme for big data
June 02, 2018
Future Generation Computer Systems - -
A New Secure and Lightweight Searchable Encryption Scheme over Encrypted Cloud Data
August 09, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing - -
ICMetric-Based Secure Communication
February 01, 2016
Book on Innovative Solutions for Access Control Management - Chapter 10, Pages 263-293
Conferences
Attention-Enhanced CNN–BiLSTM Framework for Dynamic Behavior-Based Ransomware Family Classification
December 02, 2025 - December 04, 2025
Sheikh Muhammad Zeeshan Javed, Muhammad Faisal Amjad, Shahzaib Tahir, Shahid Ali ,
2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
Strengthening Pakistan's Cyber Frontiers - Strategic Recommendations for National Security and Digital Innovation
April 23, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Bilal Ahmed, Shahzaib Tahir, Imran Rashid,
2025 International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2025
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
Securing the Internet of Things: Exploring MQTT Vulnerabilities and Threats in Pakistan's IoT Landscape
May 23, 2024 - May 23, 2024
Ammar Hassan, Junaid Aslam, Shahzaib Tahir, Imran Rashid,
2024 International Conference on Engineering and Computing, ICECT 2024
Authentication and Authorization of IoT Edge Devices Using Artificial Intelligence
November 02, 2023 - November 03, 2023
Muhammad Sharjeel Zareen, Dr. Shahzaib Tahir, Dr. Babar Aslam,
6th IFIP International Internet of Things (IoT) Conference
An ANN-BP based Multi-Alcohol Classification Model Through Different QCM Gas Sensors
March 15, 2023 - March 16, 2023
Aiman Sultan, Dr. Asif Masood, Dr Shahzaib Tahir, Dr Fawad Khan, Ahmed Raheeq Sultan,
2023 International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech)
Machine Learning Based Encrypted Content Type Identification
March 15, 2023 - March 16, 2023
Zeeshan Mehmood, Aiman Sultan, Fawad Khan, Shahzaib Tahir,
2023 International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech)
Efficient, Immutable and Privacy Preserving E-Healthcare Systems using Blockchain
March 15, 2023 - March 16, 2023
Nigam Naveed, Aiman Sultan, Fawad Khan, Shahzaib Tahir,
4th International Conference on Communication Technologies, ComTech 2023
Is Blockchain Overrated?
October 20, 2021 - October 22, 2021
Asif Raza Kazmi, Mehreen Afzal, Haider Abbas, Shahzaib Tahir, Abdul Rauf,
2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC)
Enhancing Security of Cloud-based IoT Systems through Network Access Control (NAC)
September 21, 2021 - September 22, 2021
Awais Khan, Shahzaib Tahir, Fawad Khan, Hasan Tahir, Zeeshan Zulkifl,
2021 International Conference on Communication Technologies (ComTech)
A Novel Fog-based Framework for Preventing Cloud Lock-in while Enabling Searchable Encryption
May 20, 2021 - May 21, 2021
Mariam Raj, Shahzaib Tahir, Fawad Khan, Hasan Tahir, Zeeshan Zulkifl,
2021 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2)
An Enhanced and Secure Multiserver-based User Authentication Protocol
October 20, 2020 - October 21, 2020
Mehmood Hassan, Aiman Sultan, Ali Afzal Awan, Dr Shahzaib Tahir, Imran Ihsan,
1st Annual International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS 2020 - Proceedings
Roadmap for Security-as-a-Service CRAN in 5G Networks
February 10, 2020 - February 10, 2020
Muhammad Awais Javed, Shahzaib Tahir , Muhammad Awais Javed, Shahzaib Tahir ,
International Conference on Advances in the Emerging Computing Technologies (AECT)
Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning in IoT for Authentication and Authorization of Edge Devices
August 27, 2019 - August 29, 2019
Muhammad Sharjeel Zareen, Shahzaib Tahir, Monis Akhlaq, Baber Aslam,
2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics (ICAEM)
Enhanced Lightweight Cloud-assisted Mutual Authentication Scheme for Wearable Devices
August 27, 2019 - August 29, 2019
Mehmood Hassan, Khwaja Mansoor, Shahzaib Tahir, Waseem Iqbal,
2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics (ICAEM)
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Malicious Network Activities
August 27, 2019 - August 29, 2019
Aamina Hassan, Shahzaib Tahir, Ahmed Iftikhar Baig,
2019 International Conference on Applied and Engineering Mathematics (ICAEM)
Privacy-preserving Anonymization with Restricted Search (PARS) on Social Network Data for Criminal Investigations
June 27, 2019 - June 29, 2019
Waqar Asif, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Shahzaib Tahir, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,
2018 19th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD)
Privacy-Preserving Searchable Encryption Framework for Permissioned Blockchain Networks
July 30, 2018 - August 03, 2018
Shahzaib Tahir, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,
2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData)
An Efficient Disjunctive Query Enabled Ranked Searchable Encryption Scheme
August 01, 2017 - August 04, 2017
Shahzaib Tahir, Sushmita Ruj, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,
2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS
Privacy Preserving Encrypted Phonetic Search Of Speech Data
March 05, 2017 - March 09, 2017
Cornelius Glackin, Gerard Chollet, Nazim Dugan, Nigel Cannings, Julie Wall, Shahzaib Tahir, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
A ranked searchable encryption scheme for encrypted data hosted on the Public Cloud
January 11, 2017 - January 13, 2017
Shahzaib Tahir, Dr Ali Sajjad, Prof. Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,
2017 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)
Big Data-An evolving concern for forensic investigators
November 10, 2015 - November 12, 2015
Dr. Shahzaib Tahir, Dr. Waseem Iqbal,
2015 1st International Conference on Anti-Cybercrime, ICACC 2015
A novel phylogenetic tree data visualization application for researchers
August 27, 2014 - August 29, 2014
Dr. Shahzaib Tahir, Dr. Tanvir Afzal,
2014 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2014
An ICMetric based key generation scheme for controlled group communication
July 07, 2014 - July 09, 2014
Shahzaib Tahir, Mehreen Afzal, Muhammad Tahir,
IISA 2014, The 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications
Research Assistant
City, University of London
July 18, 2016 - January 15, 2019