Dr. Ali Kashif Bashir

ALI KASHIF BASHIR is a Reader of Networks and Security at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. Also serving as Program Leader for BSc Cyber Forensics and Security and BSc Cyber Security. He also enjoys adjunct and honorary affiliations of the University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC), University of Science and Technology, Islamabad (NUST), and the University of Guelph, Canada. In the past, he has worked for the University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark; Osaka University, Japan; Nara National College of Technology, Japan; the National Fusion Research Institute, South Korea; Southern Power Company Ltd., South Korea, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea

He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Korea University, South Korea. He has authored over 200 research articles; and received over 3 Million USD funding as PI and Co-PI from research bodies of South Korea, Japan, EU, UK and the Middle East. His research interests include internet of things, wireless networks, distributed systems, network/cyber security, network function virtualization, machine learning, etc. He is serving as the Editor-in-chief of the IEEE FUTURE DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER. He is leading many conferences as a chair (program, publicity, and track) and had organized workshops in flagship conferences like IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, IEEE Mobicom, etc. He has given more than 35 invited and keynote talks at International conferences across the globe.