Schoarly Activity

Editorship:

o ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies - Associate Editor (2021- current)

o Computers & Security - Guest Editor, Special Issue on Federated Learning for Decentralized Cybersecurity (2020- 2021)

o ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) - Guest Editor, Special issue on Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems (2019- 2020)

o IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management - Guest Editor, Special issue on Blockchain Ecosystem: Technological and Management Challenges and Opportunities (2018-2020)

o Evolutionary Intelligence Journal: Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversarial Risk Analysis (2019-2020)

o Frontiers in Blockchain - Guest Editor, AI and Blockchains section (2019)

o Springer- Editor, book titled “Blockchain Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy” (2018-2019)

o Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (2013- 2017), Associate Editor

Technical Program Committee (TPC):

- IEEE-Blockchain 2024 - The 7th International Conference on Blockchain, Copenhagen, Denmark

- IEEE MetaCom 2024 - The 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom 2024), Hong Kong

- IEEE-Blockchain 2023 - The 6th International Conference on Blockchain, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China

- IEEE MetaCom 2023 – The 1st International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023), Kyoto, Japan

- IEEE-Blockchain 2022 - The 5th International Conference on Blockchain, Espoo, Finland

- CyberTIM 2022 - The 5th International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management, in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), Vienna, Austria

- IEEE-Blockchain 2021 - The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Melbourne, Australia

- IEEE PST 2021- 18th IEEE Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

- WSDF 2021: The 14th International Workshop on Digital Forensics, in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria

- CyberTIM 2021 - The 4th International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management, in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), Vienna, Austria

- IEEE CPS-Sec 2021 - IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security, in conjunction with the IEEE ICNP 2021, Dallas, Texas, USA

- NCS 2021: National Cyber Summit, Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

- ACM BSCI 2021 - The 3rd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure, Hong Kong, China.

- IEEE ATC 2021 - The 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, Atlanta, USA.

- ICBC 2021 - The 4th International Conference on Blockchain, virtual (Springer)

- IEEE ARES 2020 - The 15th IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Dublin, Ireland.

- IEEE-Blockchain 2020 - The 3rd IEEEInternational Conference on Blockchain, Rhode Island, Greece.

- IEEE CPS-Sec 2020 - IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security, in conjunction with the IEEE CNS 2020, Avignon, France

- CyberTIM 2020 - The 3rd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management, in conjunction with the IEEE ARES 2020, Dublin, Ireland

- NCS 2020 - National Cyber Summit, Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

- IEEE ICBC 2020 - The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Toronto, Canada.

- IADS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International workshop on Integrated Artificial Intelligence in Data Science, jointed with ICPR 2020: International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy

- ICBC 2020 - The 3nd International Conference on Blockchain, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (Springer)

- ACMSE 2020 - The Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA

- IEEE Blockchain-2019 - The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Atlanta, USA

- ICBC 2019 - The 2nd International Conference on Blockchain, San Diego, USA

- ARES 2019 - The 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Canterbury, UK.

- CyberTIM 2019 - The 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence Management, in conjunction with the IEEE ARES 2019, UK.

-TEMSCON 2019- The IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference, Atlanta, USA

- NCS 2019 - National Cyber Summit, Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

- IEEE STP-CPS 2019- IEEE Workshop on Secure Trust Privacy for Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (in conjunction with IEEE SECON)

- ACM SIGCSE 2019 - The 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

- IEEE CCECE 2019 - Artificial Intelligence for Securing Cyber-Physical System Workshop, Edmonton, Canada

- HIDAMT 2019 - The 1st International Workshop on Human-oriented Intelligent Defense Against Malware Threats (in conjunction with 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019), Macao

- HICSS 2019 - The 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-52), Hawaii, USA

- ACMSE 2019 - The Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw, GA, USA

- ICACCA 2018 - The 4th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing,Communication and Automation, Malaysia.

- ICBTA 2018 - 2018 International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, China

- IEEE TrustCom 2018: The 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications, New York, USA

- IEEE COMPSAC 2018: The 42nd IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computers, Software & Applications, Tokyo, Japan

- IEEE FIE 2018: IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA

- NCS 2018: National Cyber Summit, Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

- ISDDC 2018: International Conference on Intelligent, Secure and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments, Vancouver, BC, Canada

- ISDDC 2017: International Conference on Intelligent, Secure and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments, Vancouver, BC, Canada

- Mysec 2014: The 8th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference, Langkawi, Malaysia

- IEEE RCIS 2014: IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Marrakesh, Morocco

- CSECS 2011: The Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems, KL, Malaysia

PC Chair:

- IEEE DAPPS 2024: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures July 15-18, 2024, Shanghai, China.

- ACM AutoCyber 2024: International Workshop on Autonomous Cybersecurity (AutoCyber 2024), In conjunction with the 31st ACM CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, USA

- CSIA 2021: 2021 International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics Shenyang, China.

- HICSS 2021: 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), minitrack on Decentralized Federated Learning: Applications, Solutions, and Challages

- BOCE 2020: The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering, London, Ontario, Canada, (in conjunction with IEEE CCECE 2020),

-BOCE 2019: The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering, Edmonton, Canada (in conjunction with IEEE CCECE 2019)

- BOCE 2018: the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering, Canada (in conjunction with IEEE-Blockchain 2018)

- ACMSE 2020: Fintech, Blockchain and Smart Contracts Engineering, Track Chair, Florida, USA

- ACMSE 2019: Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering Track Chair, Atlanta, USA

- CSIA 2020: International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics, Haikou, China

- CSIA 2019: International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics, China

- SpaCCS 2019: The12th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, Atlanta, USA

- AIBlocks 2019: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on AI and Blockchain Systems, in conjunction with 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress, CyberSciTech 2019, Japan

- IWCSS 2020: The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2020), in conjunction with IEEE-TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, China

- IWCSS 2019: The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2019), in conjunction with the iSCI 2019 conference, Guangzhou, China

- ICBTA 2019: The 2nd International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, China

- ICBTA 2018: the 1st International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, China

Invited Journal Reviewer (samples):

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Software
IEEE Network
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Internet Computing
IET Software
IEEE Access
Empirical Software Engineering
IT Professional (IEEE Computer Society)
Frontiers in Blockchain
Expert Systems with Applications
Future Generation Computers Systems
Journal of Software: Practice and Experience
Journal of Information Security and Applications
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Express
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
Journal of Medical Systems
Computer Networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Ad Hoc Networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Neural Computing and Applications
Journal of Systems and Software

Grant Reviewer:

- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada

- Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland

- Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)