ADVANCING CYBER SECURITY & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Research

I am Dr. Faheem Ullah, an Assistant Professor at Zayed University, specializing in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering. My research focuses on developing intelligent systems for cybersecurity analytics, machine learning applications, and secure software architectures. I have extensive experience in academia and research, with publications in high-impact journals and international conferences.

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Cyber Security
96%
Machine Learning
88%
Artificial Intelligence
93%
Software Engineering
94%
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS

RECENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Faheem Ullah has published numerous research papers in leading international journals and conferences in the areas of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering. His research focuses on intelligent cybersecurity analytics, machine learning for security, cloud and distributed systems, and secure software architectures.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Research and Teaching in Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2024 - Present ( Assistant Professor)
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Teaching:
Machine Learning
Applied Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Data Structures and Algorithms
Information Security and Data Privacy

Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 ( Assistant Professor)
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Teaching:
Concepts in Cyber Security
Secure Software Engineering
Cyber Security Industry Projects
Cyber Security Research Projects

Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 ( Program Director for Cyber Security)
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Academic Leadership:
Led Master of Cyber Security program
Mentored course coordinators
Ensured accreditation alignment
Organized recruitment webinars

Mar 2019-Nov 2019 (Casual Lecturer )
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Teaching:
Software Architecture
Software Requirements Engineering
Course delivery and tutorials
Student academic support

Mar 2017 - Nov 2018 (Associate Lecturer )
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Teaching:
Software Design and Analysis
Software Requirements Engineering
Software Architecture
Tutorials and student support

Nov 2014 - Sept 2015 (Associate Lecturer )
GIK Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan

Teaching:
Circuit Analysis
Microcontroller and Interfacing
Computer Architecture

Aug 2013 - Oct 2014(Associate Lecturer )
Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), Pakistan

Teaching:
Data Structures and Algorithms
Programming Techniques
Object Oriented Programming
Computer Architecture

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

  1. A Survey on Immersive Cyber Situational Awareness Systems
    Authors: Hussain Ahmad, Faheem Ullah, and Rehan Jafri
    Venue: Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 5, no. 2
    Year: 2025
  2. Evaluation of Distributed Data Processing Frameworks in Hybrid Clouds
    Authors: Faheem Ullah, Shagun Dhingra, Xiaoyu Xia, and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Journal of Network and Computer Applications 224
    Year: 2024
  3. Towards Deep Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Microservice Architectures
    Authors: Majid Abdulsatar, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Faheem Ullah
    Venue: Journal of Cluster Computing
    Year: 2024
  4. Microservice Vulnerability Analysis: A Literature Review with Empirical Insights
    Authors: Raveen Kanishka Jayalath, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Muhammad Shuja Syed, Faheem Ullah
    Venue: IEEE Access
    Year: 2024
  5. Design and Implementation of Fragmented Clouds for Evaluation of Distributed Databases
    Authors: Yaser Mansouri, Faheem Ullah, Shagun Dhingra, and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
    Year: 2023
  6. Defending SDN Against Packet Injection Attacks Using Deep Learning
    Authors: Phu Anh Tuan, Bo Li, Faheem Ullah, Tanvir Ul Huque, Ranesh Naha, Muhammad Ali Babar, and Hung Nguyen
    Venue: Computer Networks 234
    Year: 2023
  7. A Review on C3I Systems’ Security: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures
    Authors: Hussain Ahmad, Isuru Dharmadasa, Faheem Ullah, and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: ACM Computing Surveys
    Year: 2022
  8. Resource Utilization of Distributed Databases in Edge-Cloud Environment
    Authors: Yaser Mansouri, Victor Prokhorenko, Faheem Ullah, and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    Year: 2022
  9. Design and Evaluation of Adaptive System for Big Data Cyber Security Analytics
    Authors: Faheem Ullah, M. Ali Babar, Aldeida Aleti
    Venue: Expert Systems with Applications
    Year: 2022
  10. On the Scalability of Big Data Cyber Security Analytics
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)
    Year: 2021
  11. Machine Learning for Detecting Data Exfiltration: A Review
    Authors: Bushra Sabir, Faheem Ullah, M. Ali Babar, and Raj Gaire
    Venue: ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54, no. 3
    Year: 2021
  12. Architectural Tactics for Big Data Cybersecurity Analytics: A Review
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 151, Pages 81–118
    Year: 2019
  13. Data Exfiltration: A Review of External Attack Vectors and Countermeasures
    Authors: Faheem Ullah, Matthew Edwards, Rajiv Ramdhany, Ruzanna Chitchyan, M. Ali Babar, and Awais Rashid
    Venue: Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Volume 101, Pages 18–54
    Year: 2018

Conference Publications

  1. Mapping Industry Demands for Digital Forensics: A Study of Penetration Tester Requirements
    Authors: Pragya Kaushik, Faheem Ullah, and Muhammad Imran Taj
    Venue: 2025 12th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), IEEE, pp. 8–16
    Year: 2025
  2. Enhancing Mobile AI: Feature-Based Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Image Classification
    Authors: Luca Canala, Muhammad Uzair, Faheem Ullah, Babar Shah
    Venue: 19th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA)
    Year: 2025
  3. From Air to Water: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Tackle UAE’s Water Scarcity
    Authors: Shouq Alseiari, Hoor Alkatheeri, Faheem Ullah, Muhammad Imran Taj
    Venue: Student Research Conference on Applied Computing, UAE
    Year: 2025
  4. Data Breaches: What Happened over the Last 20 Years?
    Authors: Faheem Ullah, Liwei Wang, Uswa Fatima, and Muhammad Imran Taj
    Venue: International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA)
    Year: 2025
  5. Characterizing Vulnerabilities in Microservices: Source, Age and Severity
    Authors: Samuel Beahan, Faheem Ullah, Lachlan Chalmers, Uswa Fatima, Mojtaba Shahin
    Venue: International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Odense, Denmark
    Year: 2025
  6. An Exploratory Study of Vulnerabilities in Big Data Systems
    Authors: Tyllis, Nikolas, Faheem Ullah, and Muhammad Uzair
    Venue: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), IEEE, pp. 1360–1367
    Year: 2023
  7. Co-Tuning of Cloud Infrastructure and Distributed Data Processing Platforms
    Authors: Dharmadasa, Isuru, and Faheem Ullah
    Venue: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), IEEE, pp. 207–214
    Year: 2023
  8. Guidance Models for Designing Big Data Cyber Security Analytics Systems
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and Muhammad Ali Babar
    Venue: European Conference on Software Architecture, pp. 70–80, Springer Nature Switzerland
    Year: 2023
  9. Scalable Containerized Pipeline for Real-time Big Data Analytics
    Authors: Rana Aurangzaib, Waheed Iqbal, Muhammad Abdullah, Faisal Bukhari, Faheem Ullah, Abdelkarim Earradi
    Venue: International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Perth, Australia
    Year: 2022
  10. Automated Security Assessment for the Internet of Things
    Authors: Xuanyu Duan, Mengmeng Ge, Triet HM Le, Faheem Ullah, Shang Gao, Xuequan Lu, M Ali Babar
    Venue: International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Perth, Australia
    Year: 2022
  11. Quantifying the Impact of Design Strategies for Big Data Cyber Security Analytics Systems: An Empirical Investigation
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), Gold Coast, Australia
    Year: 2019
  12. QuickAdapt: Scalable Adaptation for Big Data Cyber Security Analytics
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Guangzhou, China
    Year: 2019
  13. An Architecture-driven Adaptation Approach for Big Data Cyber Security Analytics
    Authors: Faheem Ullah and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Hamburg, Germany
    Year: 2019
  14. Security Support in Continuous Deployment Pipeline
    Authors: Faheem Ullah, Adam Johannes Raft, Mojtaba Shahin, Mansooreh Zahedi, and M. Ali Babar
    Venue: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), pp. 57–68, Porto, Portugal
    Year: 2017

Industry Experience

Project Manager

The University of Adelaide, Australia (2016–2017)

Managed a university-funded project to develop SuperSort, a mobile application designed to educate students about proper waste disposal.

Software Developer

TECNEX, Pakistan (2013)

Worked on a hospital management system project, focusing on bug fixing and improving system reliability.

Awards & Honors
Most Cited Paper Award
Journal of Systems and Software
Architectural Tactics for Big Data Cyber Security Analytics (2022)
Best Paper Award Nominee
ENASE Conference
Security Support in Continuous Deployment Pipeline (2017)
Bronze Medalist
Faculty of Computer Engineering, GIK Institute
3rd Position in BS Computer Engineering (2013)
Dean's Honor for Academic Excellence
GIK Institute
Academic distinction for outstanding performance (2011–2013)
Gold Medalist
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Peshawar
1st Position among 62,000 students (2009)
Gold Medalist
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Mardan
1st Position among 57,000 students (2007)
Research Grants & Funded Projects
Year 2025
Research Intensive Fund, Zayed University
The Dual Edge of AI - Security Implications of Integrating AI in Mobile Applications
Duration: 2026 - 2027
Principle Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 248,000
Year 2025
Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia
Revolutionizing Urban Planning in Saudi Arabia with AI: From NEOM to the Red Sea
Duration: 2025 - 2026
Co-Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: SAR 50,000
Year 2024
Start Up Grant, Zayed University
Dynamic Risk Assessment for IoT-based Smart Cities
Duration: 2024 - 2025
Principle Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AED 30,000
Year 2024
Short Term Grant, Zayed University
Machine Learning for Detecting Data Exfiltration Attacks
Duration: 2024 - 2025
Principle Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AED 10,000
Year 2022
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
SCReed – Sharing Cyber Security Data for Australian Research
Duration: 2022 - 2024
Co-Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 540,000
Year 2022
Adelaide Summer Research Scholarship
Big Data Analytics for Climate Change Analysis
Duration: Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Principle Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 2,400
Year 2022
Adelaide Summer Research Scholarship
Securing of Big Data Systems
Duration: Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Principle Investigator: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 1,200
Year 2021
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology (The University of Adelaide)
Machine Learning for Detecting Data Exfiltration Attacks
Duration: Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Principle Supervisor: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 1,200
Year 2021
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
Automated Security Assessment for the Internet of Things
Duration: Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Principle Supervisor: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 7,200
Year 2021
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre & Faculty of SET (University of Adelaide)
Protecting SDN against Packet Injection Attacks
Duration: Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Principle Supervisor: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: AUD 4,800
Year 2021
Adelaide Graduate School (The University of Adelaide)
User Behavioural Analytics for Healthcare Security
Duration: 2021 - 2024
Project Designer: Faheem Ullah
Grant Amount: 1 PhD ScholarshipAUD 27,000/year

Student Supervision

PhD Students
Yongzheng Xie (2020 - 2024)
Topic: AI-based Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Hussain Ahmad (2021 - 2022)
Topic: Engineering Secure ML based Cybersecurity Systems
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Master Students
Mohideen Abdul Jan (2023 - Sept 2023)
Topic: Machine Learning for Detecting Data Exfiltration Attacks
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Kaiyun Yu (Oct 2022 - May 2023)
Topic: Comparative Security Analysis of Microservice and Monolithic Architectures
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Che-Fu (Oct 2022 - May 2023)
Topic: Security Analysis of Microservice Architecture based on Stack Overflow Posts
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Jianwei He (May 2022 - Dec 2022)
Topic: Identifying Security Issues Based on Mobile App Reviews
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Yuen Yuen (May 2022 - Dec 2022)
Topic: Identifying Security Issues Based on Mobile App Reviews
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Xiaohan Ye (May 2022 - Dec 2022)
Topic: Topic: What Expertise Security Professionals Need
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
YuxiWu (May 2022 - Dec 2022)
Topic: Machine Learning Skills for Cyber Security Professionals
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Imaduddin Mohammed (Feb 2021 - Oct 2021)
Topic: Energy-aware Task-offloading for Big Data Platforms in Edge-Cloud Environment
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
The Trung Le (Feb 2021 - Oct 2021)
Topic: The Impact of Node Failure and Node Addition on the Performance of Big Data Platforms
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Shagun Dhingra (Sept 2020 - May 2021)
Topic: Performance Evaluation of Hadoop, Spark, and Flink in Hybrid Clouds
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Atukoralage Kusala Rajakaruna (Sept 2020 - May 2021)
Topic: Co-tuning of Cloud and Big Data System
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Sharon Khate Damaso (Sept 2020 - May 2021)
Topic: Co-tuning of Cloud and Big Data System
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Trung Ky Moc (Feb 2020 - Oct 2020)
Topic: IoT Edge Processing for Smart Parking System
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
Anying Xiang (Feb 2019 - Oct 2019)
Topic: Scalable and Reliable Big Data Cyber Security Analytics with Spark
Affiliation: The University of Adelaide, Australia
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