Dr Rizwan Asghar
Biography
Muhammad Rizwan Asghar is a Senior Lecturer (over the bar) in the School of Computer Science at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at international research institutes including CISPA at Saarland University in Germany and CREATE-NET in Trento Italy, where he also served as a Researcher.
He received his Ph.D. degree in ICT (Security and Privacy) from the University of Trento, Italy in 2013. As part of his Ph.D. programme, he was a Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Fellow at SRI International, California, USA. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Information Security Technology from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands in 2009.
Research | Current
Access Control, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography.
Teaching | Current
COMPSCI 316 - Cyber Security [Course Coordinator]
COMPSCI 702 - Security for Smart-Devices [Course Coordinator]
COMPSCI 725 - System Security [Course Coordinator]
COMPSCI 726 - Network Defence and Countermeasures [Course Coordinator]
Distinctions/Honours
2018 Best Paper Award at TrustCom (CORE Rank A)
2017 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (Early Career)
2017 Highly Commended Paper at ITNAC
2015 Best Paper Award at FiCloud
Committees/Professional groups/Services
2020 Chair of Hiring Panels for Fellowship and Lecturer positions in Cybersecurity
Since 2019 Coordinator of the Master of Professional Studies (Digital Security) Programme
2018-2020 Departmental Chair for the first Graduating Year Review of the Master of Professional Studies (Digital Security) Programme
2018 Member of the ACM ITiCSE Working Group on "Global Perspectives on Cybersecurity Education"
Since 2018 Editorial Board Member of "Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective" - Taylor &
Francis
Since 2018 Steering Committee Member of the Science and Society Theme
2015-2019 Visitor Coordinator
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Hu, Q., Yu, S.-Y., & Asghar, M. R. (2020). Analysing performance issues of open-source intrusion detection systems in high-speed networks. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY AND APPLICATIONS, 5110.1016/j.jisa.2019.102426
- Usman, M., Qaraqe, M., Asghar, M. R., Gebremariam, A. A., Ansari, I. S., Granelli, F., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2020). A Business and Legislative Perspective of V2X and Mobility Applications in 5G Networks. IEEE ACCESS, 8, 67426-67435. 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2986129
- Asghar, M. R., Hu, Q., & Zeadally, S. (2019). Cybersecurity in industrial control systems: Issues, technologies, and challenges. COMPUTER NETWORKS, 16510.1016/j.comnet.2019.106946
- Usman, M., Qaraqe, M., Asghar, M. R., & Ansari, I. S. (2019). Process Mining and User Privacy in D2D and IoT Networks. Informatik-Spektrum, 42 (5), 340-342. 10.1007/s00287-019-01212-y
- Hu, Q., Asghar, M. R., & Brownlee, N. (2019). Checking certificate revocation efficiently using certificate revocation guard. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY AND APPLICATIONS, 4810.1016/j.jisa.2019.06.012
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Nevil Brownlee - Kuppa, A., Grzonkowski, S., Asghar, M. R., & Le-Khac, N. A. (2019). Black box attacks on deep anomaly detectors. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 10.1145/3339252.3339266
- Huang, J., Qi, Y. W., Asghar, M. R., Meads, A., & Tu, Y. C. (2019). MedBloc: A blockchain-based secure EHR system for sharing and accessing medical data. Proceedings - 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019. 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00085
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Meads, Yu-Cheng Tu - Kuppa, A., Grzonkowski, S., Asghar, M. R., & Le-Khac, N. A. (2019). Finding rats in cats: Detecting stealthy attacks using group anomaly detection. Proceedings - 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019, 442-449. 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00066
Contact details
- +64 9 923 4762
- +64.9.923.4762
- r.asghar@auckland.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary office location
SCIENCE CENTRE 303S - Bldg 303S
Level 5, Room 585
38 PRINCES ST
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand
