Mohammad Shojafar

Mohammad Shojafar (M'17-SM'19) is a Senior Lecturer in Network Security, an Intel Innovator, a Senior IEEE member, an ACM distinguished speaker, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, working in the 5G & 6G Innovation Centre (5GIC & 6GIC) at the University of Surrey, UK. Before joining 5GIC & 6GIC, he was a Senior Researcher and a Marie Curie Fellow in the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research group at the University of Padua, Italy. He was a Senior Researcher working on a network security project (~11 months) jointly with Ryerson University and Telus Communications Inc (TELUS) in Toronto, Canada, in 2019. Also, he was a CNIT Senior Researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and contributed to the 3GPPP European H2020 ‘‘SUPERFLUIDITY’’ project.

Dr. Mohammad secured £311k for the ESKMARALD project (funded by NCSC-UK) and £40k for the APTd5G project (funded by EPSRC/UKI-FNI) in 2022. He secured €750k (PI) for AUTOTRUST (funded by the European Space Agency) in 2021. Mohammad secured $40k (funded by the Ecudiarain government) for IoT and Industry 4.0 resource allocation in 2020. Mohammad secured €275k (PI) for PRISENODE project (Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual project) in 2019 and €60k (PI) for an SDN security and privacy project (funded by the University of Padua) in 2018. He contributed to some Italian projects in telecommunications like GAUChO - A Green Adaptive Fog Computing and Networking Architecture (€400k), S2C: Secure, Software-defined Cloud (€30k), and SAMMClouds- Secure and Adaptive Management of Multi-Clouds (€30k) collaborating among Italian universities.

He received a Ph.D. from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2016 with an ''Excellent'' degree. He received the honored BSc in CS at Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2006. He was a programmer/software analyzer at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Tidewater ltd in Iran from 2008 to 2013. He published over 180 refereed top-tier articles in prestigious venues such as IEEE TII, IEEE TCC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE Network, Computer Networks, and FGCS. He is an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, and Computer Networks Journals. He published three books on Cybersecurity Applications and Network Security, which appeared in Springer recently.