Prof. Dr. Md. Saiful Azad

• Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineer, Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan.’2021–till date
• Ass. Professor, Faculty of Computing (previously called Faculty of Computer Systems & System Engineering), University Malaysia Pahang, Gamabang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, Oct.’2015–Jan.’2021
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication and Information Technology, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia, Apr.’2015–Oct.’2015
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan.’2013–Apr.’2015
• Research Assistant, Department of CIE, IIUM, Gombak, KL, Malaysia, Apr.’2009–Jun.’2009
• Consultant, MIMOS, Malaysia, Aug.’2008–May’2009
• Research Assistant, Department of CIE, IIUM, Gombak, KL, Malaysia, Nov.’2007–Nov.’2009
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Apr.’2006–Dec.’2006
• Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan.’2004–Apr.’2006

Patents

1. A Method for Establishing an End-To-END Route for Traversing Data, Farhat Anwar, Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hasgim, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Waliu Adisa Shittu, Omer Mahmoud, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia, Patent No: WO2013100752

2. Multibiometric based Personal Verification using the Fusion of Hand and Finger Stripe Geometry, Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, Patent No: MY-151807-A

3. A System for Automated Lighting System, Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, et. al., Registration No: PI2018000634, 2018

4. A System for Controlling Street Lighting, Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, et. al., Registration No: UI2018701046, 2018

Books

5. Practical Cryptography: Algorithms & Implementations using C++, Editors: Saiful Azad and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, CRC press, USA, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2

6. IPTV Delivery Networks: Next Generation Architectures for Live and Video-on-Demand Services, Editors: Suliman Mohamed Fati, Saiful Azad, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Wiley, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-119-39791-5

Journal Articles

7. Kamal Z. Zamli, Md Abdule Kader, Saiful Azad, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Hybrid Henry Gas Solubility Optimization Algorithm with Dynamic Cluster-to-Algorithm Mapping for Search-based Software Engineering Problems,” Neural Computing and Applications, 2021. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.680]

8. M Shamim Kaiser, Mufti Mahmud, Manan Binth Taj Noor, Nusrat Zerin Zenia, Shamim Al Mamun, KM Abir Mahmud, Saiful Azad, VN Manjunath Aradhya, Stephan Punitha, Thomson Stephan, Ramani Kannan, Mohammed Hanif, Tamanna Sharmeen, Tianhua Chen, Amir Hussain, “iWorkSafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces during COVID-19 with an Intelligent pHealth App for Industrial Settings,” IEEE Access, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

9. Nurul Asyikin Zainal, Saiful Azad, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “An Adaptive Fuzzy Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for General Optimization Problems,” IEEE Access, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

10. Shah Samiur Rashid, Saiful Azad, Jalal K. C. A., Mohd Hasbi Bin Ab. Rahim, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Implementation of a Deep Learning Neural Network Model for Partial Optimization of Cellulose Enzyme Production Process,” International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2020. [Scopus]

11. Gollam Rabby, Saiful Azad, M Mahmud, KZ Zamli, MM Rahman, “TeKET: a Tree-Based Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction Technique,” Cognitive Computation, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.287]

12. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Taufiq A. Asyhari, Khoirul Anwar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “A Cyber-Enabled Mission-Critical System for Post-Flood Response: Exploiting TV White Space as Network Backhaul Links,” IEEE Access, 2019. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

13. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Qusay Medhat Salih, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Saiful Azad, “Traveling distance estimation to mitigate unnecessary handoff in mobile wireless networks,” Annals of Telecommunications, 2019. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.552]

14. Saiful Azad, Noor Elya Afiqah Che Nordin, Nur Nadhirah Ab Rasul, Mufti Mahmud, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “A Secure Hybrid Authentication Scheme using PassPoints and Press Touch Code,” IEEE Access, 2019. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

15. Dilara Ireen Swarna, Saiful Azad, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Arafatur Rahman, “Finding a suitable hop-to-hop busty traffic transmission approach for Underwater Acoustic Networks: handshake-based vs handshake-free MAC protocols,” International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, InderScience Publishers, vol 27, no. 3, Feb 2018. [ISI Q4, IF: 0.705]

16. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, and Muhammad Nomani Kabir, “An Expanding Neighbourhood Search Technique for Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Operations using Air Ground Collaborative Wireless Networks,” International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018. [Scopus]

17. M. R. Ghori, M. A. U. Rahman, Saiful Azad, N. Quosthoni, M. A. Majid, “Hybrid Communication Network Architecture for Palm Oil Supply Chain Traceability (POSCT) System,” Sindh University Research Journal, 2018. [WoS]

18. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Taufiq A. Asyhari, Khoirul Anwar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-And-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks,” IEEE Access, 2018. [ISI Q1, IF: 3.24]

19. Muhammad Nomani Kabir, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Mohamed Mostafa A. Azim, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “CoPCoNRF: A Model of Connection Probability for Communication Networks under Regional Failures,” International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.5]

20. M. S. A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, Safwan Fathi Bin Mohammad, Kamal Z. Zamli, and Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, “An Analysis on Vulnerabilities of Password Retrying,” Advanced Science Letters, 2018. [WoS]

21. Tien Fui Yong, Saiful Azad, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Kamal Z. Zamli, Gollam Rabby, “A Highly Accurate PDF-To-Text Conversion System for Academic Papers Using Natural Language Processing Approach,” Advanced Science Letters, 2018. [WoS]

22. Paolo Casari, Saiful Azad, Marco Zanforlin, and Michele Zorzi, “Underwater Delay-Tolerant Routing via Probabilistic Spraying,” IEEE Access, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 4.092]

23. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Saiful Azad, Rasib Khan, and Luca Caviglione, “Security mechanisms and data access protocols in innovative wireless networks,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.151]

24. M. S. A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, Nur Nadiah Hanim Binti Mohd Nor, Kamal Z. Zamli, “Press touch code: A finger press based screen size independent authentication scheme for smart devices,” PLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 10, 2017. [ISI Q1, IF: 2.81]

25. Saiful Azad, Md Arafatur Rahman, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, “Crowd Associated Network: Exploiting over Smart Garbage Management System,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 186–192, July 2017. [ISI Q1, IF: 10.435]

26. Saiful Azad, Musfiq Rahman, M. S. A. Noman Ranak, B. M. F. Kamal Ruhee, N. Nourin Nisa, Nazrul Kabir, Arafatur Rahman, Jasni M Zain, “VAP Code: A Secure Graphical Password for Smart”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 59, pp. 99–109, April 2017. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.57]

27. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Jahan Ali, Muhammad Nomani Kabir, and Saiful Azad, “A performance investigation on IoT enabled intra-vehicular wireless sensor networks,” International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, 2017. [Scopus]

28. Saiful Azad, Khandaker Tabin Hasan, Dip Nandi, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, “A High-Throughput Routing Metric for Multi-Hop Underwater Acoustic Networks”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 44, pp. 24–33, May 2015. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.57]

29. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, and Michele Zorzi, “Multipath Routing with Limited Cross-Path Interference in Underwater Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 465–468, 2014. [ISI Q2, IF:2.45]

30. Paolo Casari, Cristiano Tapparello, Federico Guerra, Federico Favaro, Ivano Calabrese, Giovanni Toso, Saiful Azad, Riccardo Masiero, Michele Zorzi, “Open-source Suites for the Underwater Networking Community: WOSS and DESERT Underwater,” Special issue on open source for networking: design and experimentation, IEEE Network, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 38-46, 2014. [ISI Q1, IF: 7.23]

31. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, and Michele Zorzi, “The Underwater Selective Repeat Error Control Protocol for Multiuser Acoustic Networks: Design and Parameter Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue: 99, pp. 1-12, 2013. [ISI Q1, IF:4.95]

32. Farhat Anwar, Aisha Hassan Abdalla, S. M. Sadakatul Bari, Md. Akhtaruzzaman, Mosharrof Hussain Masud, Jannatul Naeem, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, “Enhancing Performance of MAODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Network using Integrated Multiple Metrics Technique (IMMT),” International Journal of Networks and Communications, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1–6, 2012.

33. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, “An Enhanced Link Repair Technique for MAODV Routing Protocol,” textbfIJCIT, Serial Publications, Vol 3, No. 1, ISSN: 0974-696X, pp. 1–13, 2011.

34. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, “Integrated Metric-Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector: A Routing Protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks,” Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, No. 7, ISSN 1549-3636, pp. 511–518, 2009. [Scopus]

35. Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, “Multibiometric Systems Based Verification Technique,” EJSR, Vol. 34, No. 2, ISSN 1450-216X / 1450-202X, pp. 260–270, Jul. 2009. [Scopus]

36. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Aisha H. Abdalla, Akhmad Unggul Priantoro, Omer Mahmoud, “Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols over Wireless Mesh Networks,” IJCSNS, Vol. 9, No. 6, ISSN 1738-7906,  pp. 55–62, 2009.

37. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “Performance Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh,” Informatica Economică, Vol. 13, No. 2, ISSN 1453-1305, EISSN 1842-8088, pp. 120–127, 2009.

38. Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, and Mohammad Moshee Uddin (2008), “Performance Analysis of Ad hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 35, No. 3, ISSN 1819-656X (print version), ISSN 1819-9224 (online version), pp. 353–360, Sep. 2008. [Scopus]

39. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar, “A Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET),” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 5, ISSN: 1816-949X (Print) ISSN: 1818-7803 (online), pp.  891–896, 2007. [Scopus]

40. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “An Efficient Technique for Human Verification Using Finger Stripes Geometry,” International Journal of Soft Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, ISSN: 1816-9503, pp. 445–449, 2007. [Scopus]

Conference Articles

41. Ahmad Faizuwan Bin Welhendri, Saiful Azad, and Md Sayfullah Al Noman Ranak, “A Supervised Learning Neural Network Approach for the Prediction of Supercapacitive Energy Storage Materials,” Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2020. (accepted) [Scopus]

42. Ahmad Faizuwan Bin Welhendri, Saiful Azad, and Md Sayfullah Al Noman Ranak, “A Hybrid Screen Size Independent Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020. [Scopus]

43. M. Saef Ullah Miah, M. Sadid Tahsin, Saiful Azad, Gollam Rabby, M. Sirajul Islam, Shihab Uddin, and M. Masuduzzaman, “A Geofencing-based Recent Trends Identification from Twitter Data,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020. [Scopus]

44. Gollam Rabby, Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Kamal Z. Zamli, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, “A Flexible Keyphrase Extraction Technique for Academic Literature,” Procedia Compute Science, 2018. [Scopus]

45. Norul Suhaliana bt Abd Halim, Md Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Muhammad Nomani Kabir, Blockchain Security Hole: Issues and Solutions, International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology IRICT 2017: Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 739–746, May 2017

46. Saiful Azad, Leonardo Badia, Arafatur Rahman, and Jasni Mohamad Zain, “Raising fairness issue of vehicle routing problem,” ICITE 2016, Singapore. [Scopus]

47. Mohd Ishak Bin Ismail, Md Arafatur Rahman, and Saiful Azad, “Exploiting Privacy-Policy and -Management Features on Social Networks: A User’s Perspective,” ICCCE 2016, Malaysia. [Scopus]

48. Ali. M. H. Abbas, Jahan Ali, Md Arafatur Rahman, and Saiful Azad, “Comparative Investigation on CSMA/CA-Based MAC protocols for Salable Networks,” ICCCE 2016, Malaysia. [Scopus]

49. Soung-Yue Liew, Saiful Azad, Hock Guan Goh, Boon Yaik Ooi, and Arafatur Rahman, “A Store-and-delivery Based MAC Protocol for Air-ground Collaborative Wireless Networks for Precision Agriculture,” The 3rd International Workshop on Internet of Things Technologies (IoTT 2015), Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 14–17, 2015. [Scopus]

50. Md. Arafatur Rahman,  Muhammad Nomani Kabir, Jahan Ali, and Saiful Azad, “On mitigating Hop-to-Hop Congestion Problem in IoT Enabled Intra-Vehicular Communication,” In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS’ 15), Kuantan, Malaysia, Aug. 19–21, 2015. [Scopus]

51. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, KhandekarTabin Hasan, Michele Zorzi, “MACA-APT: A MACA-based Adaptive Packet Traintransmission protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks,” in Proc. of ACM WUWNet, Rome, Italy, Nov. 12–14, 2014. [Scopus]

52. Md. Rafiqul Islam, Saiful Azad, and Md. Monzur Morshed, “A Secure Communication Suite for Cluster-based Underwater Surveillance Networks”, in Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (ICEEICT 2014), Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Scopus]

53. El HadiCherkaoui, Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Laura Toni, NazimAgoulmine, and Michele Zorzi, “Packet Error Recovery in Multipath Underwater Networks using Reed-Solomon Codes,” in proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Virginia, USA, Oct. 2012. [Scopus]

54. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “Coastal Patrol and Surveillance Networks using   AUVs and Delay-Tolerant Networking,” in Proc.  of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Yeosu, South Korea, May  2012. [Scopus]

55. Riccardo Masiero, Saiful Azad, Federico Favaro, Matteo Petrani, Giovanni Toso, Federico Guerra, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “DESERT Underwater: an NS-Miracle-based framework to DEsign, Simulate, Emulate and Realize Test-beds for Underwater network protocols,” in Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Yeosu, South Korea, May  2012. [Scopus]

56. Michael Goetz, Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Ivor Nissen, Michele Zorzi, “Jamming-Resistant Multi-path Routing for Reliable Intruder Detection in Underwater Networks,” in Proc. of ACM WUWNet, Seattle, Washington, USA, Dec. 1–2, 2011. [Scopus]

57. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Federico Guerra, Michele Zorzi, “On ARQ Strategies over Random Access Protocols in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE/OES OCEANS, Santander, Spain, Jun. 2011. [Scopus]

58. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Chiara Petrioli, Roberto Petroccia, Michele Zorzi, “On the Impact of the Environment on MAC and Routing in Shallow Water Scenarios,” in Proc. of IEEE/OES OCEANS, Santander, Spain, Jun. 2011. [Scopus]

59. Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, S.M. Sadakatul Bari, Muhammad Mehdi Masud, “Improved link repair technique for multicast routing in Wireless Mesh Network,” in Proc. of 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 17–19, 2011. [Scopus]

60. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Moshee Uddin, Saiful Azad, Shariq Haseeb “Performance Analysis on a Limited Resource Server: Fedora vs. Ubuntu Linux,” in Proc. of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), Orlando, FL, USA, Apr. 12–15, 2010. [Scopus]

61. Md.Arafatur Rahman, Farhat  Anwar, Saiful Azad, “Smart Card Design To Enhance Fare Collection For Public Transportation Sector In Bangladesh,” in Proc. of International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems 2009 (ICSECS’09), Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, Oct. 19–21, 2009

62. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “Integrating Multiple Metrics to Improve the perofrmance of a Routing Protocvol over Wireless Mesh Network,” in Proc. ofInternational Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2009), Singapore, pp. 784–787, 2009. [Scopus]

63. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Aisha Hassan Abdalla, “A Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks,” in Proc. of International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, Mar. 7–9, 2009. [Scopus]

64. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md Arafatur Rahman, “Performance of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” In: Wai PK., Huang X., Ao SI. (eds) Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 33. Springer. [Scopus]

65. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md. Rafiqul Islam, “Design of Smart Card for Automated Toll Collection at Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh,” in Proc. of5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering(ICECE 2008), Dhaka, Bangladesh, DOI: 10.1109/ICECE.2008.4769355, Dec. 20–22, 2008. [Scopus]

66. Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Eklas Hossain, Saiful Azad, “Rain Fade Analysis on Earth-Space Microwave Link in a Subtropical Region,” in Proc. of 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering(ICECE 2008), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 20–22, 2008. [Scopus]

67. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “The Efficient Use of Lifetime to Enhance the Performance of AODV,” in Proc. of 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU’ 2008), Malaysia, Nov. 17–19, 2008.

68. Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, “A Simulation and Analysis of Tree and Mesh based Multicast Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks,” in Proc. of 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU’ 2008), Malaysia, Nov. 17–19, 2008.

69. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, “A Simple and Effective Technique for Human Verification with Hand Geometry,” in Poc. of International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering  (ICCCE ’08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 13–15, 2008. [Scopus]

70. Saiful Azad, Mohammad Moshee Uddin, Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” in Proc. Of IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications, Hong Kong, Mar. 19–21, 2008.

71. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, S. M. Kamruzzaman and Md. Jahidur Rahman, “A Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET),” in Proc. of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ( ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 21 – 23, 2006.

Book Chapters

72. M. S. A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, B. M. F. Kamal Ruhee, N. Nourin Nisa, Nazrul Kabir, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Kamal Z. Zamli, “IPTV Network Security: Threats and Countermeasures,” IPTV Delivery Networks: Next Generation Architectures for Live and Video-on-Demand Services, Wiley, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

73. Saiful Azad, Mashiour Rahman, KhandakerTabin Hasan, and Dip Nandi, “Comparison of non-probing based routing metrics for a static Multi-Hop Underwater Acoustic Networks,” Simulation Technologies in Networking and Communications: Selecting the Best Tool for the Test, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222549-5.

74. Sheikh Shaugat Abdullah and Saiful Azad, “Classical Cryptographic Algorithms Department of Computer Science,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

75. Sheikh Shaugat Abdullah and Saiful Azad, “Rotor Machine,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

76. Tanveer Islam, Mohammod Abul Kashem, and Saiful Azad, “Block Cipher,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

77. Ezazul Islam and Saiful Azad, “Data Encryption Standard,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

78. Asif Ur Rahman, SaefUllah Miah, and Saiful Azad, “Advanced Encryption Standard,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

79. Nasrin Sultana and Saiful Azad, “Asymmetric Key Algorithms,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

80. Saad Andalib and Saiful Azad, “The RSA Algorithm,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

81. Hafizur Rahman and Saiful Azad, “Elliptic Curve Cryptography,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

82. Saddam Hossain Mukta and Saiful Azad, “Secure Hash Algorithm,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA, ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2.

83. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, and Farhat Anwar,“Performance Evaluation of Wireless Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment”, for the book “Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science” Editors: Sio-IongAo, Xu Huang, Ping-kong Alexander Wai, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9492-7, Springer, 2009. [Invited Book chapter]

Extended Abstracts / Posters

84. Federico Favaro, Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “On the Performance of Unsynchronized Distributed MAC Protocols in Deep Water Acoustic Networks,” WUWNet, Seattle, Washington, USA, Dec. 1–2, 2011. [Scopus]

86. Riccardo Masiero, Saiful Azad, Federico Favaro, Matteo Petrani, Giovanni Toso, Federico Guerra, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “DESERT Underwater: an NS-Miracle based framework to DEsign, Simulate, Emulate and Realize Test-beds for Underwater network protocols,” 9th Italian Networking Workshop, Courmayeur, Italy, Jan. 11–13, 2012.

Copyrights

88. Vap Code:  A Secure Graphical Password For Smart Devices,  no. LY201700180, Application Year: 2016

89. TeKET: A Tree based Keyphrase Extraction Technique,  no. LY2019002360, Application Year: 2019

Service Awards & Recognitions:

1. Best Service Award (Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang) for the excellent service in 2017, UMP, Malaysia

2. Best Service Award (Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang)} for the excellent service in 2018, UMP, Malaysia

Research Awards and Recognitions: 

3. Principal Inventor, Bronze Medal for the title, “A Trust Management Model for Cyber Physical Production System using Deep Learning Technique,” CITREX, UMP, 2020.

4. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “LockApps: A Smart and Secure Apps Locking Application,” MTE, Malaysia, 2019.

5. Principal Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “TeKET: A Tree-based Keyphrase Extraction Technique for Academic Recommender System,” ITEX, Malaysia, 2019.

6. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “TeKET: A Tree-based Keyphrase Extraction Technique for Academic Recommender System,” CITREX, UMP, 2019.

7. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “IOT Enable Relay Network for Demand based Light Intensity Controlled Seamless Highway Lighting,” ITEX, Malaysia, 2018.

8. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “A Smart and Secure Application Locker for Smart Devices,” CITREX, UMP, 2018.

9. Principal Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “A Highly Accurate PDF-to-Text Conversion System for Academic Papers using Natural Language Processing Approach,” CITREX, UMP, 2018.

10. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “Vibration and Pattern (VAP) code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme,” iENA, Germany, 2017.

11. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Designing An Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” iENA, Germany, 2017.

12. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “Vibration and Pattern (VAP) code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme,” ITEX, Malaysia, 2017.

13. Co-Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Designing An Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” ITEX, Malaysia, 2017.

14. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “Vibration and Pattern (VAP) code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme,” CITREX, UMP, 2017.

15. Co-Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Designing An Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” CITREX, UMP, 2017.

16. Principal Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “A Finger Press based Screen Size Independent Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices,” CITREX, UMP, 2017.

17. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “An Exceptionally Secure Graphical Password for Smart Devices,” iCAN, Canada, 2017.

18. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “An Exceptionally Secure Graphical Password for Smart Devices,” iCAN, Canada, 2017.

19. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “A Secure Shoulder Surfing Resistant Authentication Scheme,” iCE-CInno, UMP, 2016.

20. Principal Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Designing An Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” iCE-CInno, UMP, 2016.

21. Co-Inventor, Gold Medal for the title, “IoT Enabled Intra-Vehicular Communication for Designing a Smart Car,” iCE-CInno, UMP, 2016.

22. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “Design and Implement a Dynamic & Adaptive Grammar Learning Tool,” iCE-CInno, UMP, 2016.

23. Principal Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “VAP Code: A Secure Graphical Password Scheme for Smart Devices,” iCE-CInno, UMP, 2016.

24. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “A Web-Extension for authentication of Online Hadish Texts,” ITEX, Malaysia, 2016.

25. Co-Inventor, Silver Medal for the title, “A Web-Extension for authentication of Online Hadish Texts,” CITREX, UMP, 2016.

26. Co-Inventor, Bronze Medal for the title, “Mobility-Aware Channel Selection Technique for Next Generation Wireless Networks,” CITREX, UMP, 2016.

27. Co-Inventor, Bronze Medal for the title, “Mobility-Aware Channel Selection Technique for Next Generation Wireless Networks,” CITREX, UMP, 2016.

28. Principal Inventor, Cendekia Bitara (Bright Scholar) Award: Exhibition Category for the product, “Vibration-And-Pattern (VAP) Code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme,” UMP, 2017.

29. Principal Inventor, Merit Award: Silver (Exhibition Category) for the product, “VAP Code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices,” UMP, 2017.

30. Co-Inventor, Best of the Best Award (Staff Category) for the product, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” CITREX, 2017.

31. Co-Inventor, Most Commercial IT Innovation Award for the product, “Vibration-And-Pattern (VAP) Code: A Smart and Secure Authentication Scheme,” CITREX, 2016.

32. Co-Inventor, Special Award from IBM CoE for the product, “IoT Enabled Relay Network for Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System,” iCE-CInno, 2016.

Publication Awards & Recognition:

33. Principal Author, Cendekia Bitara (Bright Scholar) Award: Journal Publication Category for the title, “Underwater Delay-Tolerant Routing via Probabilistic Spraying,” UMP, 2019.

34. Co-Author, Cendekia Bitara Award: Journal Publication Category for the title, “Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-And-Rescue missions exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks,” UMP, 2019.

35. Principal Author, Merit Award: Gold (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “Security Mechanisms and Data Access Protocols in Innovative Wireless Networks,” UMP, 2019.

36. Principal Author, Merit Award: Gold (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “Security Mechanisms and Data Access Protocols in Innovative Wireless Networks,” UMP, 2018.

37. Principal Author, Merit Award: Gold (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “Finding a Suitable Hop-to-Hop Busty Traffic Transmission Approach for Underwater Acoustic Networks: Handshake vs Handshake-Free MAC Protocols,” UMP, 2018.

38. Co-Author, Merit Award: Gold (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “A Connection Probability Model for Communications Networks Under Regional Failures,” UMP, 2018.

39. Best Presenter Award in 2nd Advances in Environmental Science and Engineering Research International Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 2017.

40. Principal Author, Cendekia Bitara (Bright Scholar) Award: Journal Publication Category for the title, “Crowd Associated Network: Exploiting over a Smart Garbage Management System,” UMP, 2017.

41. Principal Author, Merit Award: Diamond (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “Press Touch Code: A Finger Press based Screen Size Independent Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices,” UMP, 2017.

42. Principal Author, Merit Award: Gold (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “VAP Code: A Secure Graphical Password for Smart Devices,” UMP, 2017.

43. Co-Author, Merit Award: Silver (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “VAP Code: A Secure Graphical Password for Smart Devices,” UMP, 2017.

44. Co-Author, Merit Award: Silver (Journal Publication Category) for the title, “A Performance Investigation on IoT Enabled Intra-Vehicular Wireless Sensor Networks,” UMP, 2017.

45. Supervisor, Notable Masters Project for the title, “An Enhanced UDTN protocol using Reed-Solomon Codes for Packet Error Recovery in Coastal Patrol and Surveillance Networks,” FK, UMP, 2016.

Research Experiences: Grants:

Research Project 1:

Title: A Trust Management Model for Cyber Physical Production System using Deep Learning Technique

Duration: 01/09/2019–30/11/2021

Grant No.: RDU1901109

Funding Org.: Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Amount: RM 60,700

Role: Leader

Research Project 2:

Title: A Machine Learning based Fingerprint Extraction Technique from UMPIR for UMP Researcher Profiling

Duration: 01/09/2019–30/11/2022

Grant No.: RDU192210

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 87,800

Role: Leader

Research Project 3:

Title: A Deep Neural Network-Since Cosine Algorithm DNN-SCA) based Hybrid Prediction Model for Parameter Optimization

Duration: 01/09/2019–30/11/2022

Grant No.: RDU192218

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 59,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 4:

Title: A Machine Learning Based Keyphrase Extraction Technique From Academic Literature For Implementing Material 4.0 @ ASEAN

Duration: 15/10/2018–14/01/2022

Grant No.: RDU182201-3

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 24,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 5:

Title: An Artificial Neural Network-Sine Cosine Algorithm ANN-SCA) based hybrid prediction model for the production of Cellulose NanoCrystals CNC) from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch OPEFB

Duration: 01/01/2019–31/03/2022

Grant No.: RDU191801-4

Funding Org.: Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Amount: RM 94,429

Role: Member

Research Project 6:

Title: Interaction of Magnetic Field on the Alignment of Iron Nano Particle Coated Nanocrystalline Cellulose in Biodegradable Composites

Duration: 01/01/2019–31/03/2022

Grant No.: RDU190138

Funding Org.: Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Amount: RM 94,500

Role: Member

Research Project 7:

Title: A New Priority Rule Cloud Scheduling Technique That Utilizes Gaps to Increase the Efficiency of Jobs Distribution

Duration: 01/09/2019–30/11/2021

Grant No.: RDU1901194

Funding Org.: Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Amount: RM 71,800

Role: Member

Research Project 8:

Title: A New Fusion Fault Tolerance Replication Model in Grid-Cloud Distributed Environment

Duration: 15/12/2019–14/03/2022

Grant No.: RDU1903122

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 21,000

Role: Member

Research Project 9:

Title: A New Binary Vote Assignment Data Grid Mining with Fault Tolerance BVADGM-FT) Algorithm for Fragmented Distributed Databases Replication in Big Data

Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021

Grant No.: RDU1903132

Funding Org.: Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Amount: RM 85,300

Role: Member

Research Project 10:

Title: An Artificial Intelligence based Offstage Reference Pathway Finding Model to Enhance Recommender Systems for Academic Literature

Duration: 01/08/2016–31/07/2018

Grant No.: RDU160107

Funding Org.: Fundamental Research Grant, Ministry of Higher Education

Amount: RM 65,200

Role: Leader

Research Project 11:

Title: An Artificial Intelligent based Efficient Recommender System for Academic Literature

Duration: 15/05/2017–14/05/2019

Grant No.: RDU1703100

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 25,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 12:

Title: An Automatic Research Profiling System using a Supervised Machine Learning based Approach

Duration: 15/04/2018–14/04/2020

Grant No.: RDU180359

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 20,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 13:

Title: A Secure Graphical Password Scheme for Smart Devices

Duration: 25/05/2016–24/11/2017

Grant No.: RDU160353

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 20,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 14:

Title: A new global optimization algorithm based on stochastic approach to minimize software testing redundancy

Duration: 01/08/2016–31/01/2019

Grant No.: RDU160102

Funding Org.: Fundamental Research Grant, Ministry of Higher Education

Amount: RM 63,700

Role: Member

Research Project 15:

Title: Exploiting the Cross-Layer Paradigm for Routing in Mobile Cognitive Radio Networks

Duration: 25/05/2016–24/05/2018

Grant No.: RDU160360

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 22,200

Role: Member

Research Project 16:

Title: IoT Enabled Relay Network for Energy Efficient Highway Lighting System

Duration: 2017–2018

Grant No.: UIC

Funding Org.: University Malaysia Pahang

Amount: RM 28,500

Role: Member

Research Project 17:

Title: CoLlAborative eMbedded networks for submarine surveillance CLAM)

Duration: Jan.’2010-–Mar.’2011

Grant No.: Grant agreement no. 258359

Funding Org.: European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme

Amount: RM 20,000

Role: Leader

Research Project 18:

Title: NAUTILUS

Duration: May’2011-–Dec.’2013

Grant No.: Grant agreement no. 258359

Funding Org.: Italian Institute of Technology within the Project SEED framework

Research Project 19:

Title: RACUN

Duration: Feb.’2011–Dec.’2012

Grant No.: Grant agreement no. 258359

Funding Org.: European Defense Agency

Research Project 20:

Title: Development of Seamless IP-Based Communication Architecture With Enhance Quality of Services QoS) for High Speed Mobile Node

Duration: Apr.’2009-–Jun.’2009

Grant No.: Grant agreement no. 258359

Funding Org.: International Islamic University Malaysia IIUM)

Research Project 21:

Title: Multicast Routing Protocol for WiMAX Mesh Networks

Duration: Aug.’2008–May’2009

Grant No.: Grant agreement no. 258359

Funding Org.: MIMOS, Malaysia

Research Project 22:

Title: A New Multi-Biometric based Algorithm for Human Verification

Duration: Nov.’2007–Nov.’2009

Grant No.: 05/FRGS 0207-50

Funding Org.: Fundamental Research Grants FRGS), Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Highlights

•  Received  Excellent Service Award in 2018 for the performance of 2017 from UMP.

•  Received  Excellent Service Award in 2019 for the performance of 2018 from UMP.

•  Received  Cendekia Bitara (Bright Scholar) Award for Publication (Journal), 2017, 2018 and 2019.

•  Received  Cendekia Bitara (Bright Scholar) Award for Research Product, 2018.

•  Completed  PhD from  University of Padova, Italy, under the supervision of  Prof. Michele Zorzi — Chair/Director of Board of Editors-in-Chief of IEEE ComSoc Society journals.

•   17 years of academic and research experience.

•  Total Running Grant Amount:  RM 253,700 or around $62,000 (as Leader) + RM 281,729 or around $68,000 (as Member) = RM 535,429 or $130,000.

•  Total Completed Grant Amount:  RM 110,200 or $27,000 (as Leader) + RM 114,400 (as Member) or $28,000 = RM 224,600 or $55,000.

• Supervised or Co-supervised 40 students: 7 PhD, 7 master, and 26 bachelor students.

• Published  4 patents and  2 copyrights.

• Authored/Edited 2 books, which are published from  Wiley and  CRC press.

• Published many articles in renowned peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

•        Guest Editor in: i) Special Collection on Security Mechanisms and Data Access Protocols in Innovative Wireless Networks,  International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, SAGE Publications [ISI Q3] and ii) in Advances in Computer Intelligence & Technology: Towards Embracing Industry 4.0,  SN Applied Sciences [WoS].

•   Conducted 6 seminars in various universities — locally and internationally.

•  Developed one Android application and uploaded it on Google Play Store, named  LockApps.

•  One of the developers of a simulator, called  DESERT Underwater simulator, which is an Open-source software for simulating underwater networking scenarios.

•  Possess a  h-index of 17 with a citation count of 731 in google scholar and a  h-index of11$ with a citation count of  371 in Scopus as of October 30, 2020.

•   Received 4 scholarships including  CaRiPaRo Scholarship for pursuing PhD.

•  Received  10 Gold medals in exhibitions including IENA (Germany), MTE, ITEX, CITREX and  11 silver medals in exhibitions including IENA (Germany), ITEX, CITREX.

•  Stood 3rd in H.S.C under Comilla Board and  15th in S.S.C under the same board.

•  Included in the  Google Knowledge Graph and appearing in the  Google Knowledge panel.