Rate My Professor Mohamed Waqas

Affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) as a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security specializing in Wireless Communications Security, his academic interests span Wireless Communications encompassing 5G and 6G technologies, Vehicular Networks, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning applications. Waqas has led or contributed to several funded research projects in these domains as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or consultant. His prolific publication record features peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals, including "SF-Net: Spatial-Frequency Feature Synthesis for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery" (2026, IEEE JSTARS), "Complementary Information Mining for Redundancy and Weakly Aligned RGB-T Semantic Segmentation" (2026, IEEE TGRS), "TruChord: A Secure Communication Framework for Hybrid SDIoT Architecture Based on Chord Overlay" (2025, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing), "Desynchronization-Resistant Anonymous Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems Utilizing Physically Unclonable Functions" (2025, IEEE Internet of Things Journal), and "SLIM: A Secure and Lightweight Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Signcryption Scheme for IoT" (2023). Among his honors is the Best Research Paper Award from ASSP 2021. He has delivered invited talks and chaired sessions at international conferences and seminars. His research has garnered over 4,800 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his influence in advancing secure wireless and cyber-physical systems.