Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- pradip.sharma@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
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
Adaptive Quantum-Augmented Security Framework for Vehicle-to-Everything (AQAS-V2X) Communication
Contributions to Conferences: PapersMultivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Spatial-Temporal Graph Ordinary Differential Equations Network
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingContributions to Journals: ArticlesSoK: Towards Privacy-Centric Collaborative Machine Learning—A Classification Framework for Privacy Solutions
SN Computer ScienceContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04482-4
An Unsupervised Malicious Web Request Detection based on Transformer and Contrastive Learning
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3281-3294Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2025.3563089
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GpDB: A Graph Partition Based Storage Strategy for DAG-Blockchain in Edge-Cloud IIoT
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5790-5798Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3162201
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- Research
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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.

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, £200K (PI)
2024-2025 “ZECURE Data Exchange Platform - Net Zero Mobility,” Innovate UK, £236K (PI)
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
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- Publications
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Compound Scaling Encoder-Decoder (CoSED) Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Related Bio-marker Detection
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1959 - 1970Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3313785
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Next-Generation Consumer Electronics Data Auditing Scheme Toward Cloud-Edge Distributed and Resilient Machine Learning
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2244-2256Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2024.3368206
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A relay-assisted parallel offloading strategy for multi-source tasks in internet of vehicles
Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol. 62, 103619Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2024.103619
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A Reservation-Based Multi-Source Distributed Offloading Strategy in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 1866 - 1876Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2023.3338745
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Dual-path network combining CNN and transformer for pavement crack segmentation
Automation in Construction, vol. 158, 105217Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105217
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SHT-based public auditing protocol with error tolerance in FDL-empowered IoVs
Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 142-149Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2022.07.011
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Blockchain-Based Sensitive Document Storage to Mitigate Corruptions
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 71, pp. 12635 - 12647Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2022.3183867
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Privacy Enhanced Mobile User Authentication Method Using Motion Sensors
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 3013-3032Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.031088
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Parameter-Efficient Log Anomaly Detection based on Pre-training model and LORA
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE59848.2023.00038
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An Intelligent Secure Adversarial Examples Detection Scheme in Heterogeneous Complex Environments
Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 3859-3876Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.041346
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