Faculty Proflle

Biography:

Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan received the MCS and MS(CS) degrees from the COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received his Phd from the University of Malaya, KL, Malaysia in 2014. He is serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad. He has published many research papers in well reputed international journals. He also serves as a domain expert for multiple international research funding bodies, and has received multiple awards, fellowships, and research grants. His areas of research interest include cybersecurity, mobile cloud computing, ad hoc networks, and IoT.

Educational Information

Year	Degree	Board / University

2003	BSc	University of Peshawar
2005	MCS	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
2008	MS(CS)	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
2014	Doctor of Philosophy	University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Academic Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization

2007	2008	Visiting Faculty Member	Government Post Graduate College Mandian, Abbottabad
2006	2008	Research Associate	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
2012	2014	Research Associate	University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2008	2011	Lecturer	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
20014	2020	Assistant Professor	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
2022	till date	Tenured Associate Professor	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus

Publications

Key Publications

Abdul Nasir Khan,Abid Mehmood,Muhammad Nasir Mumtaz Bhutta,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Atta ur Rehman Khan''An efficient and compromise-resilient image encryption scheme for resource-constrained environments'',PLOS ONE,2024.
Abid Mehmood,Arslan Shafique,Abdul Nasir Khan, Moatsum Alawida, Junaid Shuja''Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme for IoT Environment and MachineLearning-Driven Robust S-box Selection'',Springer,2024.
Sana Nasim Karam,Kashif Bilal,Abdul Nasir Khan, Junaid Shuja?, Said Jadid Abdulkadir''Energy-efficient routing protocol for reliable low-latency Internet of Things in oil and gas pipeline monitoring'',PeerJ Inc.,2024.
Abid Mehmood, Arslan Shafique,Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan''Advances and Vulnerabilities in Modern Cryptographic Techniques: A Comprehensive Survey on Cybersecurity in the Domain of Machine/Deep Learning and Quantum Techniques'',IEEE,2024.
Ibrar Hussain,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Waqas Jadoon, Rab Nawaz Jadoon, Abdul Nasir Khan, Muhammad Shafi''Touch or click friendly: Towards adaptive user interfaces for complex applications'',Public Library of Science,2024.
Imtiaz Ali Shah,Abid Mehmood,Abdul Nasir Khan, Mourad Elhadef, Atta ur Rehman Khan''HeuCrip: A malware detection approach for internet of battlefield things'',Springer US,2024.
Abid Mehmood, Arslan Shafique,Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan, Neeraj Kumar''A time-efficient and noise-resistant cryptosystem based on discrete wavelet transform and chaos theory: An application in image encryption'',Elsevier,2023.
Arslan Shafique,Abid Mehmood,Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan, Atta Ur Rehman Khan''A novel machine learning technique for selecting suitable image encryption algorithms for IoT applications'',Hindawi,2022.
Muhammad Faisal Aziz,Abdul Nasir Khan,Junaid Shuja, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Fiaz Gul Khan, Atta ur Rehman Khan''A lightweight and compromise-resilient authentication scheme for IoTs'',,2022.
Arslan Shafique ,Abid Mehmood,Moatsum Alawida ,Abdul Nasir Khan ,and Atta Ur Rehman Khan''A Novel Machine Learning Technique for Selecting Suitable Image Encryption Algorithms for IoT Applications'',Hindawi,2022.
Ehzaz Mustafa,Junaid Shuja,S. Khaliq uz Zaman, Ali Imran Jehangiri, Sadia Din, Faisal Rehman, Saad Mustafa, Tahir Maqsood & Abdul Nasir Khan ''Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey'',Springer,2021.
MudassarAslama,Bushra Mohsin,AbdulNasir and ShahidRazaa''FoNAC - An automated Fog Node Audit and Certification scheme'',Elsevier,2020.
Usman Ali Khan,,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Ahmad Din, Waqas Jadoon,1Rab Nawaz Jadoon, Muhammad Amir Khan , Fiaz Gul Khan, and Abdul Nasir Khan''Towards a Complete Set of Gym Exercises Detection Using Smartphone Sensors'',Hindawi,2020.
Muhammad Sohail Khan,Muhamad Faisal Abrar,Dohyeun Kim, Faiza Tila, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Junaid Shuja & Abdul Nasir Khan ''Resource-based direct manipulation: a user-centric visual interface for operational customization of future smart appliances'',Springer,2020.
Tauqeer Khalid,Tauqeer Khalid,Abdul Nasir Khan; Mazhar Ali; Adil Adeel; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Junaid Shuja''A fog-based security framework for intelligent traffic light control system'',Springer,2019.
Tauqeer Khalid,Abdul Nasir Khan,Muhammad Abbas Khan Abbasi; Maria Zuraiz; Mazhar Ali; Raja Wasim Ahmad; Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues; Mudassar Aslam''A survey on privacy and access control schemes in fog computing'',Wiley,2019.
Adil Adeel, Mazhar Ali,Abdul Nasir Khan; Tauqeer Khalid; Faisal Rehman; Yaser Jararweh; Junaid Shuja''A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authentication scheme'',Wiley,2019.
Daniyal Sakhawat,,Abdul Nasir Khan; Mudassar Aslam; Anthony T. Chronopoulos ''Agent-based ARP cache poisoning detection in switched LAN environments'',IET,2018.
Anum Khurshid, Abdul Nasir Khan, Fiaz Gul Khan; Mazhar Ali; Junaid Shuja; Atta ur Rehman Khan;''Secure-CamFlow: A device-oriented security model to assist information flow control systems in cloud environments for IoTs'',Wiley,2018.
Sardar Khaliq Uz Zaman,,Atta Ur Rehman Khan; Saif Ur Rehman Malik; Abdul Nasir Khan; Tahir Maqsood; Sajjad A Madani;''Formal verification and performance evaluation of task scheduling heuristics for makespan optimization and workflow distribution in large-scale computing systems'', C R L PUBLISHING LTD, 5 WEIR RD, KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP, LEICESTER, ENGLAND, LE8 0LQ ,2017.
Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Abdul Nasir Khan; Junaid Shuja; Saad Mustafa''Computation Offloading Cost Estimation in Mobile Cloud Application Models'',Springer,2017.
Bilal Jan ,Anthony Theodore Chronopoulos,Fiaz Gul Khan; Bartolomeo Montrucchio; Shahaboddin Shamshirband; Abdul Nasir Khan''Introducing ToPe-FFT: An OpenCL-based FFT library targeting GPUs'',Wiley,2017.
Abdul Nasir Khan ,,Mazhar Ali; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Fiaz Gul Khan; Iftikhar Ahmed Khan; Waqas Jadoon; Shahab Shamshirband; Anthony T. Chronopoulos;''A comparative study and workload distribution model for re-encryption schemes in a mobile cloud computing environment'',Wiley,2017.
Fiaz Gul Khan,Shahaboddin Shamshirband,Bartolomeo Montrucchio; Bilal Jan; Abdul Nasir Khan; Waqas Jadoon; Anthony Theodore Chronopoulos; Iftikhar Ahmed Khan;''An optimized magnetostatic field solver on GPU using open computing language'',Wiley,2017.
Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Abdul Nasir Khan; Shahbaz Akhtar Abid; Sajjad Ahmad Madani''MobiByte: An Application Development Model for Mobile Cloud Computing '',Springer,2015.
Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Mazhar Ali; Shahaboddin Shamshirband; Atta ur Rehman Khan;''A Cloud-Manager-Based Re-Encryption Scheme for Mobile Users in Cloud Environment: a Hybrid Approach'',Springer,2015.
Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman ; Feng Xia ; Abdul Nasir Khan;''Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing and Its Challenges'',IEEE,2015.
Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Mazhar Ali; Sajjad A. Madani; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Shahaboddin Shamshirband;''BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data storage services in mobile cloud environment'',Springer,2014.
Shahaboddin Shamshirbandad,,Nor Badrul Anuar; Miss Laiha MatKiah; Vala Ali Rohania; Dalibor Petkovic; Sanjay Misra; Abdul Nasir Khan;''Co-FAIS: Cooperative fuzzy artificial immune system for detecting intrusion in wireless sensor networks'',Elsevier,2014.
Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Sajjad A. Madani; Mazhar Ali; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Shahaboddin Shamshirband''Incremental proxy re-encryption scheme for mobile cloud computing environment'',Springer,2014.
Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Mazhar Ali; Abdul Nasir Khan; Sajjad Ahmad Madani;''Pirax: framework for application piracy control in mobile cloud environment'',Springer,2014.
Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Sajjad A. Madani; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Mazhar Ali''Enhanced dynamic credential generation scheme for protection of user identity in mobile-cloud computing'',Springer,2013.
Abdul NasirKhan,,M.L. Mat Kiah; Samee U.Khan; Sajjad A.Madani;''Towards secure mobile cloud computing: A survey'',Elsevier,2013.
Abdul Nasir Khan,,Kalim Qureshi; Sumair Khan;''An Intelligent Approach of Sniffer Detection '',IAJIT,2012.

Conferences

Year	Level	Country	City	Conference

No records to display.

Awards

Year	Awarding Organization	Description

2007-2008	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus	Won the scholarship for MS(CS) from COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
2012-2014	Bright Spark Unit of University of Malaya	Won the scholarship for Phd from Bright Spark Unit of University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2012	University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Won the Best Paper Award in PGReS, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Memberships

From	To	Title	Organization

No records to display.

Courses Taught

Course Code	Type	Title	University	Semester

No records to display.

Supervisions

Title	From	To	Organization / Institute	Type

Machine Learning Based Malware Detection in Internet of Battlefield Thing (IoBT)	June 2021	Jan 2022	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
Privacy Aware interoperable Patient Data Storage and Searching using Blockchain	June 2022	Jan-2023	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
Personality Prediction using Urdu Speech Data	Jan 2023	Jul 2023	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
UAVS-aided IoTs Framework for Energy-efficient, Reliable and Low Latency Sensing and Communication for Smart Pipelines Monitoring in Oil and Gas Industry	Jan 2023	in progress	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
Lightweight and Compromise-Resilient Authentication Protocol for IoT	Jan 2019	Aug 2019	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
A Fog-based Security Framework for Intelligent Traffic Light Control System	Jan 2018	Jul-2018	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
Device Oriented Security to Assist Information Flow Control Systems in the Cloud Environment	Jan 2017	Jul 2017	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision
A Service Discovery and Forwarding Architecture in Fog computing	Jun 2016	Jan 2017	CUI, Abbottabad	Research Supervision

Services

From	To	Institute / Organization	Job Specification

No records to display.

Books

Title	Subject	First Author	Second Author	Third Author	Year	Publisher

No records to display.

Fundings

From	To	Type	Title	Source	Amount

No records to display.

Active Collaborations

From	To	Type	Country	Organization

2021	2024	Research	Multiple Countries	Abu Dhabi University

Industrial / Consulting Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization

No records to display.

Extracurricular Activities

Hobbies	Interests

No records to display.

Languages and Skills

Languages	Skills

Urdu	Master
English	Listen, Speaking, Writing, Reading
Urdu	Listen, Speaking, Writing, Reading
Bahasa Malay	Basic

Disclaimer: The information displayed on this page belong to the author. Our employees are obliged not to display any false information. Therefore, CU will not take any liability for any false information included in this page. In case of any damages or other liabilites arising, employees are fully responsible for the content of their profiles.

Publication Year	Key Publications

1 2024	1 Abdul Nasir Khan,Abid Mehmood,Muhammad Nasir Mumtaz Bhutta,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Atta ur Rehman Khan''An efficient and compromise-resilient image encryption scheme for resource-constrained environments'',PLOS ONE,2024.
2 2024	2 Abid Mehmood,Arslan Shafique,Abdul Nasir Khan, Moatsum Alawida, Junaid Shuja''Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme for IoT Environment and MachineLearning-Driven Robust S-box Selection'',Springer,2024.
3 2024	3 Sana Nasim Karam,Kashif Bilal,Abdul Nasir Khan, Junaid Shuja?, Said Jadid Abdulkadir''Energy-efficient routing protocol for reliable low-latency Internet of Things in oil and gas pipeline monitoring'',PeerJ Inc.,2024.
4 2024	4 Abid Mehmood, Arslan Shafique,Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan''Advances and Vulnerabilities in Modern Cryptographic Techniques: A Comprehensive Survey on Cybersecurity in the Domain of Machine/Deep Learning and Quantum Techniques'',IEEE,2024.
5 2024	5 Ibrar Hussain,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Waqas Jadoon, Rab Nawaz Jadoon, Abdul Nasir Khan, Muhammad Shafi''Touch or click friendly: Towards adaptive user interfaces for complex applications'',Public Library of Science,2024.
6 2024	6 Imtiaz Ali Shah,Abid Mehmood,Abdul Nasir Khan, Mourad Elhadef, Atta ur Rehman Khan''HeuCrip: A malware detection approach for internet of battlefield things'',Springer US,2024.
7 2023	7 Abid Mehmood, Arslan Shafique,Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan, Neeraj Kumar''A time-efficient and noise-resistant cryptosystem based on discrete wavelet transform and chaos theory: An application in image encryption'',Elsevier,2023.
8 2022	8 Arslan Shafique,Abid Mehmood,Moatsum Alawida, Abdul Nasir Khan, Atta Ur Rehman Khan''A novel machine learning technique for selecting suitable image encryption algorithms for IoT applications'',Hindawi,2022.
9 2022	9 Muhammad Faisal Aziz,Abdul Nasir Khan,Junaid Shuja, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Fiaz Gul Khan, Atta ur Rehman Khan''A lightweight and compromise-resilient authentication scheme for IoTs'',,2022.
10 2022	10 Arslan Shafique ,Abid Mehmood,Moatsum Alawida ,Abdul Nasir Khan ,and Atta Ur Rehman Khan''A Novel Machine Learning Technique for Selecting Suitable Image Encryption Algorithms for IoT Applications'',Hindawi,2022.
11 2021	11 Ehzaz Mustafa,Junaid Shuja,S. Khaliq uz Zaman, Ali Imran Jehangiri, Sadia Din, Faisal Rehman, Saad Mustafa, Tahir Maqsood & Abdul Nasir Khan ''Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey'',Springer,2021.
12 2020	12 MudassarAslama,Bushra Mohsin,AbdulNasir and ShahidRazaa''FoNAC - An automated Fog Node Audit and Certification scheme'',Elsevier,2020.
13 2020	13 Usman Ali Khan,,Iftikhar Ahmed Khan,Ahmad Din, Waqas Jadoon,1Rab Nawaz Jadoon, Muhammad Amir Khan , Fiaz Gul Khan, and Abdul Nasir Khan''Towards a Complete Set of Gym Exercises Detection Using Smartphone Sensors'',Hindawi,2020.
14 2020	14 Muhammad Sohail Khan,Muhamad Faisal Abrar,Dohyeun Kim, Faiza Tila, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Junaid Shuja & Abdul Nasir Khan ''Resource-based direct manipulation: a user-centric visual interface for operational customization of future smart appliances'',Springer,2020.
15 2019	15 Tauqeer Khalid,Tauqeer Khalid,Abdul Nasir Khan; Mazhar Ali; Adil Adeel; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Junaid Shuja''A fog-based security framework for intelligent traffic light control system'',Springer,2019.
16 2019	16 Tauqeer Khalid,Abdul Nasir Khan,Muhammad Abbas Khan Abbasi; Maria Zuraiz; Mazhar Ali; Raja Wasim Ahmad; Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues; Mudassar Aslam''A survey on privacy and access control schemes in fog computing'',Wiley,2019.
17 2019	17 Adil Adeel, Mazhar Ali,Abdul Nasir Khan; Tauqeer Khalid; Faisal Rehman; Yaser Jararweh; Junaid Shuja''A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authentication scheme'',Wiley,2019.
18 2018	18 Daniyal Sakhawat,,Abdul Nasir Khan; Mudassar Aslam; Anthony T. Chronopoulos ''Agent-based ARP cache poisoning detection in switched LAN environments'',IET,2018.
19 2018	19 Anum Khurshid, Abdul Nasir Khan, Fiaz Gul Khan; Mazhar Ali; Junaid Shuja; Atta ur Rehman Khan;''Secure-CamFlow: A device-oriented security model to assist information flow control systems in cloud environments for IoTs'',Wiley,2018.
20 2017	20 Sardar Khaliq Uz Zaman,,Atta Ur Rehman Khan; Saif Ur Rehman Malik; Abdul Nasir Khan; Tahir Maqsood; Sajjad A Madani;''Formal verification and performance evaluation of task scheduling heuristics for makespan optimization and workflow distribution in large-scale computing systems'', C R L PUBLISHING LTD, 5 WEIR RD, KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP, LEICESTER, ENGLAND, LE8 0LQ ,2017.
21 2017	21 Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Abdul Nasir Khan; Junaid Shuja; Saad Mustafa''Computation Offloading Cost Estimation in Mobile Cloud Application Models'',Springer,2017.
22 2017	22 Bilal Jan ,Anthony Theodore Chronopoulos,Fiaz Gul Khan; Bartolomeo Montrucchio; Shahaboddin Shamshirband; Abdul Nasir Khan''Introducing ToPe-FFT: An OpenCL-based FFT library targeting GPUs'',Wiley,2017.
23 2017	23 Abdul Nasir Khan ,,Mazhar Ali; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Fiaz Gul Khan; Iftikhar Ahmed Khan; Waqas Jadoon; Shahab Shamshirband; Anthony T. Chronopoulos;''A comparative study and workload distribution model for re-encryption schemes in a mobile cloud computing environment'',Wiley,2017.
24 2017	24 Fiaz Gul Khan,Shahaboddin Shamshirband,Bartolomeo Montrucchio; Bilal Jan; Abdul Nasir Khan; Waqas Jadoon; Anthony Theodore Chronopoulos; Iftikhar Ahmed Khan;''An optimized magnetostatic field solver on GPU using open computing language'',Wiley,2017.
25 2015	25 Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Abdul Nasir Khan; Shahbaz Akhtar Abid; Sajjad Ahmad Madani''MobiByte: An Application Development Model for Mobile Cloud Computing '',Springer,2015.
26 2015	26 Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Mazhar Ali; Shahaboddin Shamshirband; Atta ur Rehman Khan;''A Cloud-Manager-Based Re-Encryption Scheme for Mobile Users in Cloud Environment: a Hybrid Approach'',Springer,2015.
27 2015	27 Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman ; Feng Xia ; Abdul Nasir Khan;''Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing and Its Challenges'',IEEE,2015.
28 2014	28 Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Mazhar Ali; Sajjad A. Madani; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Shahaboddin Shamshirband;''BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data storage services in mobile cloud environment'',Springer,2014.
29 2014	29 Shahaboddin Shamshirbandad,,Nor Badrul Anuar; Miss Laiha MatKiah; Vala Ali Rohania; Dalibor Petkovic; Sanjay Misra; Abdul Nasir Khan;''Co-FAIS: Cooperative fuzzy artificial immune system for detecting intrusion in wireless sensor networks'',Elsevier,2014.
30 2014	30 Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Sajjad A. Madani; Mazhar Ali; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Shahaboddin Shamshirband''Incremental proxy re-encryption scheme for mobile cloud computing environment'',Springer,2014.
31 2014	31 Atta ur Rehman Khan,,Mazliza Othman; Mazhar Ali; Abdul Nasir Khan; Sajjad Ahmad Madani;''Pirax: framework for application piracy control in mobile cloud environment'',Springer,2014.
32 2013	32 Abdul Nasir Khan,,M. L. Mat Kiah; Sajjad A. Madani; Atta ur Rehman Khan; Mazhar Ali''Enhanced dynamic credential generation scheme for protection of user identity in mobile-cloud computing'',Springer,2013.
33 2013	33 Abdul NasirKhan,,M.L. Mat Kiah; Samee U.Khan; Sajjad A.Madani;''Towards secure mobile cloud computing: A survey'',Elsevier,2013.
34 2012	34 Abdul Nasir Khan,,Kalim Qureshi; Sumair Khan;''An Intelligent Approach of Sniffer Detection '',IAJIT,2012.

Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, CUI Abbottabad Campus