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Dr Pradip Sharma

Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma

Senior Lecturer

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Email Address
pradip.sharma@abdn.ac.uk
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228 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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School of Natural and Computing Sciences
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Biography

Dr. Pradip Sharma, SMIEEE, SFHEA, is a globally recognised academic and researcher in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. As Associate Professor of Cybersecurity & AI at the University of Aberdeen, UK, he leads pioneering research and educates the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Holding a PhD in Cybersecurity and an M.Tech in Computer Science, Dr. Sharma brings a unique blend of academic excellence and industry experience, having previously served as a Research Fellow and Software Engineer. A Senior Member of IEEE and Senior Fellow of Advance HE, Dr. Sharma is a thought leader in the global research community. Dr. Sharma serves as an editor for leading journals and is a regular keynote speaker and program chair at international conferences. His educational leadership includes spearheading innovative cybersecurity curricula and supervising a diverse cohort of doctoral researchers. With a portfolio exceeding £1M in funded research from EPSRC, Innovate UK, and international agencies, his work fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and drives impactful solutions to global security challenges.

External Memberships

Senior Fellowship Advance HE (SFHEA)

IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE)

Latest Publications

  • SoK: Towards Privacy-Centric Collaborative Machine Learning—A Classification Framework for Privacy Solutions

    Boar, P. E., Akram, R. N., Li, W., Sharma, P. K.
    SN Computer Science
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An Unsupervised Malicious Web Request Detection based on Transformer and Contrastive Learning

    He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3281-3294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • GpDB: A Graph Partition Based Storage Strategy for DAG-Blockchain in Edge-Cloud IIoT

    Liao, Z., Cheng, S., Zhang, J., Wu, W., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5790-5798
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

    Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Minecrafter: A secure and decentralized consensus protocol for blockchain-enabled vaccine supply chain

    Maloth, S., Hada, N. S., Jatoth, C., Gupta, N., Fiore, U., Sharma, P. K.
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 18, no. 4, 168
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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Research

Research Overview

Research interests: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Edge Computing, Software-defined Networking, IoT Security

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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Research Specialisms

  • Computer and Information Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Applied Computing
  • Cybernetics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Funding and Grants

2025-2026            “Oil & Gas Cyber Benchmarking,” Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, £26K (PI)

2025-2028            “Digital Guardian: AI-Powered Shield Against Highly Sophisticated AI based Phishing Attacks,” International Doctoral Training Scholarship, £37K (Co-I)

2024-2026            “Secure, Privacy-aware, and Trusted Data Share in Smart Mobility,” EPSRC ECR, £200K FEC (PI)

2024-2025            “ZECURE Data Exchange Platform - Net Zero Mobility,” Innovate UK, £236K (PI-UoA)

2023-2026            “Quantum-resistant Cybersecurity,” International Doctoral Training Scholarship, £73K (PI)

2022-2023            “Secure and Privacy-aware Data Share in Smart Mobility,” Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact, £2K (PI)

2022-2023            “Distributed Big-data Service Framework based on Blockchain and Machine Learning for Smart Cities,” 2022 High-end Foreign Expert in China, £20K (PI)

2020-2022            “Development of Simulator for Virtual Learning,” Agency for Defence Development, £270K (Co-I)

2016-2019            “Developing a Green Smart Home Security Framework for Next Generation IoT Environment,”  National Research Foundation (NRF), £200K (Investigator)

2016-2019            “WellTEC Coaching Service and Content Development for Wellness Life,” Consortium Information Technology Research Center (C-ITRC), £16K (Investigator)

2016-2018            “Development of an immersive and interactive NUI/NUX Platform for Invoked Reality Contents,”  Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), £5K (Investigator)

Teaching

Courses

Publications

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  • SoK: Towards Privacy-Centric Collaborative Machine Learning—A Classification Framework for Privacy Solutions

    Boar, P. E., Akram, R. N., Li, W., Sharma, P. K.
    SN Computer Science
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An Unsupervised Malicious Web Request Detection based on Transformer and Contrastive Learning

    He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3281-3294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • GpDB: A Graph Partition Based Storage Strategy for DAG-Blockchain in Edge-Cloud IIoT

    Liao, Z., Cheng, S., Zhang, J., Wu, W., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5790-5798
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

    Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Minecrafter: A secure and decentralized consensus protocol for blockchain-enabled vaccine supply chain

    Maloth, S., Hada, N. S., Jatoth, C., Gupta, N., Fiore, U., Sharma, P. K.
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 18, no. 4, 168
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Label-free Medical Image Quality Evaluation by Semantics-aware Contrastive Learning in IoMT

    Yi, D., Hua, Y., Murchie, P., Sharma, P.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 2335-2344
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Uni-directional graph structure learning-based multivariate time series anomaly detection with dynamic prior knowledge

    He, S., Li, G., Wang, J., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 267-283
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Zero Trust Networks: Evolution and Application from Concept to Practice

    Ren, Y., Wang, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alqahtani, F., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 1593-1613
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • A dual encoder crack segmentation network with Haar wavelet-based high–low frequency attention

    Zhang, J., Zeng, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 256, 124950
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Based on Multiple Spatiotemporal Graph Convolution

    He, S., Guo, Q., Li, G., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 3500714
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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