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Associate Professor & Coordinator for Cyber Security Program
Canadian University Dubai, UAE
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Email: firstname "dot" lastname "at" cud"dot"ac"dot"ae
Office: HUB-03, School of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, Canadian University Dubai, City Walk, Dubai, UAE
Associate Professor & Coordinator for Cyber Security Program,
School of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, Canadian University Dubai (Aug 2023 – Present)
Accreditation and Quality Assurance Leadership
CAA's OBF Framework: Completed our application for re-accreditation of our BSc CyS program by CAA, UAE.
Lead for ABET, prepared the ABET SSR, and managed the ABET PEV visit (Oct 2025) achieving zero deficiencies, weaknesses, or concerns.
Co-developed ABET's Readiness Review report; designed PIs, mapped courses to PIs, developed templates for data collection, and documented continuous improvement data.
Ensure continuous compliance with ABET and UAE CAA standards through structured curriculum and assessment reviews.
Academic and Administrative Leadership
Oversee curriculum design, academic quality, and faculty coordination, ensuring compliance with international standards.
Proposed new Courses for BSc CyS program - including network security, digital forensics, ML for CyS, Privacy, and Governance Laws.
Lead the Undergraduate Internship Program — Redesigned assessment rubrics & report templates for effective assessments.
Conducted faculty workshops on assessment, reporting, and continuous improvement.
Program Development
Contributed to the design and proposal of MS (Cyber Security) and MS (Artificial Intelligence) programs.
Developed course outlines, thesis frameworks, and research supervision guidelines for postgraduate studies.
Teaching Services:
Cyber Security Courses: Penetration testing and ethical hacking, security principles and practices, network security and administration,
Computer Networks: Network operating systems, LAN switching and routing, enterprise network design, communication technologies, communication networks
Programming and General Computing Courses: Database systems, OOP, data structures & algorithms, logic for computing science
Associate Professor, NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [Oct 2020 - Aug 2023 | currently on long leave]
Administrative and Curriculum Modernization Experience:
Modernized BSCS Curriculum as per Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) 2020 framework [2022 & 2023]
Led BSCS curriculum revision aligned with National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC), Pakistan [2020]
Chaired Self-Assessment Reports for MS(IT), PhD(IT), MS(IS), and PhD(IS) programs for re-accreditation.
Supervision:
Four MS Theses in cybersecurity, IoT, and distributed systems with publications.
Fourteen UG capstone projects two of which won prizes in the annual open house event at NUST-SEECS.
Research Grants: Secured national and international research grants.
Teaching: Algorithmic Game Theory, IoTs, Mobile Application Development, Data Structures, Algorithm Analysis.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad [Mar 2013 – Sep 2020]
Convener, Course Mentors Committee — enhanced teaching quality and faculty mentoring.
Member, ABET Continuous Improvement Committee — advanced outcome-based assessment practices.
Served on Academic Review, Thesis, and FYP Committees, ensuring curriculum and research quality.
Teaching: Game Theory, digital forensics, wireless networks, data structures and algorithms, communication networks.
Research: Supervised 13 Masters Theses that resulted in IF journal publications; many of my students earned fully funded International PhD scholarships
Teaching domains: Computer Networks, Data Communication, Distributed Systems, WSNs, Network Programming, OS.
Lecturer (ATER in French), Université Paris Nord, France [September, 2011 - August, 2012]
Teaching: Computer Networks related multiple courses.
Research: Conducted research on large scale wireless sensor networks.
Ph.D. (Computer Science), Université Paris Nord, France [2012]
MS (Networks and Distributed Systems), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France [2008]
BS (Computer Science), FAST NUCES [2006] (Silver Medalist)
Co-Principal Investigator
Project Title: An AI enabled quasi-real-time water quality monitoring for early chemical and/or bio-contamination detection
Funding Body: TEINN Asi@Connect Grant: 150,000 Euros
Project Duration: March 2022 - February 2023
Co-Principal Investigator
Project Title: PEEOS: Phenology Estimation of Rice and Wheat in Pakistan using Earth Observation Satellite Images
Funding Body: HEC-NRPU Grant: PKR 13 Million
Project Duration: 3 years starting from March, 2022
Routing, medium access control, resource allocation and security related issues in:
Internet of Things
Cloud Computing
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (vehicular networks, opportunistic networks, sensor networks)
Smart Grids
Moreover, I am interested in the applications of algorithmic game theory to various research domains.
Mubashir Husain Rehmani and Yasir Faheem, Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Applications, Architectures, and Challenges, This book is part of the Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (AWTT) series., Editors: Mubashir Husain Rehmani and Yasir Faheem, IGI Global, USA, June, 2014.
M. H. Rehmani, Y. Faheem, Data Dissemination and Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Networks, Book chapter in Evolution of Cognitive Networks and Self-Adaptive Communication Systems, Editors: Thomas Lagkas, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Malamati Tenia, Periklis and Chatzimisios, IGI Global USA, 2013
[J17] F. Namee, M. Ali, G. Kaddoum, Y. Faheem, M. Debbah, Y. Zhang, "A Survey on Generative AI-Driven Digital Twins: Towards Intelligent 6G Networks and Metaverse Systems , IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025, Accepted [IF = 6.1]
[J16] Saadia, A. Saadat, Y. Faheem, Z. Abaid, M. M. Fraz, Cloud Security in the Age of Adaptive Adversaries: A Game Theoretic Approach to Hypervisor-based Intrusion Detection, Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, 2024 [IF=3.7]
[J15] M. M. Qirtas, Y. Faheem, M. H. Rehmani, A Cooperative Mobile Throwbox-Based Routing Protocol for Social-Aware Delay Tolerant Networks, Springer Wireless Networks, 2020 [IF = 2.4]
[J14] R. Niazi, Y. Faheem, A Bayesian Game-Theoretic Intrusion Detection System for Hypervisor-Based Software Defined Networks in Smart Grids , IEEE Access, 2019 [IF=4.09]
[J13] A. Haq, Y. Faheem, A Peer-to-Peer Communication based Content Distribution Protocol for Incentive-Aware Delay Tolerant Networks, Springer Wireless Networks, 2019 [IF = 2.4]
[J12] S. Ali, A. Ahmad, Y. Faheem, M. Altaf, H. Ullah, Energy-efficient RRH-association and resource allocation in D2D enabled multi-tier 5G C-RAN, Springer Telecommunication Systems, 2019 [IF = 1.7]
[J11] H. Khelifi, S. Luo, B. Nour, H. Moungla, Y. Faheem, R. Hussain, A. Ksentini, Named Data Networking in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks: State of the Art and Challenges, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2019 [ IF= 22.97]
[J10] M. Fahimullah, Y. Faheem, N. Ahmad, A Bi-Objective Game-Theoretic Model for Collaboration Formation Between Software Development Firms, PLOS ONE, 2019, [IF = 2.77]
[J9] M. Fahimullah, Y. Faheem, N. Ahmad, Collaboration Formation and Profit Sharing Between Software Development Firms: A Shapely Value Based Cooperative Game, IEEE Access, 2019, [IF = 4.09]
[J8] N. Islam, Y. Faheem, I. U. Din, et. al., A Blockchain-based Fog Computing Framework for Activity Recognition as an Application to e-Healthcare Services, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, 2019 [IF = 5.7]
[J7] S. Khan, N. Islam, Z. Jan, I. Din, A. Khan, Y. Faheem, An e-Health Care Services Framework for the Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer in Breast Cytology Images as an IoMT Application, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, 2019 [IF = 5.7]
[J6] M. U. Hassan, M. H. Rehmani, Y Faheem, Performance Evaluation of Broadcasting Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks, Springer Wireless Networks, 2017. [IF = 1.98]
[J5] R. Ullah, Y. Faheem, B. S. Kim, Energy and Congestion-Aware Routing Metric for Smart Grid AMI Networks in Smart City, IEEE Access, July 2017 [IF = 3.24]
[J4] M. Qirtas, Y. Faheem, M. H. Rehmani, Throwboxes in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Survey of Placement Strategies, Buffering Capacity, and Mobility Models, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2017 [IF = 3.50]
[J3] Y. Faheem. S. Boudjit, Duty-Cycle SN-MPR Algorithm for Mobile Sink Wireless Sensor Networks, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2015 [ISI indexed]
[J2] Z. A. Khan, Y. Faheem, Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Smart Communication for Smart Grids - A Case Study of Pakistan, Elsevier Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 [IF = 5.62]
[J1] M. A. Qureshi, M. I. Khan, Y. Faheem et. al., Reactive GTS Allocation Protocol for Sporadic Events Using the IEEE 802.15.4, Hindawi's Journal of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014 [IF = 1.08]
[C5] M. B. Islam, Y. Faheem, A. Ahmad, M. M. Fraz , From measured pH to hidden BOD: Quasi real-time estimation of key indirect water quality parameters through direct sensor measurements, 9th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, UK, 2024
[C4] Y. Faheem, S. Boudjit, TABA: A Traffic-Aware Channel Selection Protocol for 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of the twelfth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (MOBIHOC), Paris, 2011 (short paper)
[W1] Y. Faheem, S. Boudjit, Traffic-aware Adaptive-Bandwidth Channel Selection Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, IWSOS workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011
[C3] Y. Faheem, S. Boudjit, & K. Chen, Dynamic Sink Location Update Scope Control Mechanism for Mobile Sink Wireless Sensor Networks, in Proceedings of Wireless On-Demand Networks Conference (WONS), Italy, 2011
[C2] Y. Faheem, S. Boudjit & K. Chen, Data Dissemination Strategies in Mobile Sink Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey, in Proceedings of IFIP Wireless Days Conference , Paris, France, 2009
[C1] Y. Faheem, J. L. Rougier, Loop avoidance for fish-eye OLSR in Sparse Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), IEEE Press, 2009, 215-218
Email: firstname.lastname "at_the_rate_of" cud.ac.ae
Office: Office Hub-G07, School of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, Canadian University Dubai, Al Wasl, City Walk, Dubai, UAE