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Dr Pradip Sharma

Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma

Senior Lecturer

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pradip.sharma@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
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

  • Exploiting CKKS-based Homomorphic Encryption in Federated Learning: A Hybrid Attack under Adverse Deployment Conditions

    Boar, P. E., Sharma, P., Akram, R. N., Li, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Complying with the Right to Be Forgotten in Smart Mobility Data Sharing: A Delete-Only Redactable Consortium Blockchain

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Mariappan, V., Hong, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • 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

  • SALB: Security-Aware Load Balancing for Large Language Model Training in Datacenter Networks

    He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Personalised Multi-Task Federated Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Image Classification

    Li, Y., Sharma, P., Leontidis, G., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

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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.

Computing Science

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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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

2026-2029    “LATTICE: Lateral Adaptive Threat Triaging And Intelligence Collaborative Ecosystems,” Horizon Europe (HORIZON), €5.14M (Co-PL)

2026-2028            “Governing AI In The Final Frontier,” British Academy, £358K (Co-PL)

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

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

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

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

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

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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  • Editorial Special Section on Security, Privacy, and Trust Analysis and Service Management for Intelligent Internet of Things Healthcare

    Cai, L., Sharma, P., Ghosh, U., He, J.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 4785-4787
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • BERT-Based Deep Spatial-Temporal Network for Taxi Demand Prediction

    Cao, D., Zeng, K., Wang, J., Sharma, P. K., Ma, X., Liu, Y., Zhou, S.
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 9442 - 9454
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blockchain and Federated Learning-enabled Distributed Secure and Privacy-preserving Computing Architecture for IoT Network

    Sharma, P., Gope, P., Puthal, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Guest Editorial: Blockchain and Industry 4.0 in Resilient Wireless Communications

    Sharma, P. K., Hafid, A. S., Rana, O., Chandramouli, R., Peng, S.
    IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 12-13
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Toward Advanced UAV Communications: Properties, Research Challenges, and Future Potential

    Sahoo, B. P., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 154-159
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mitigation of black hole attacks in 6LoWPAN RPL-based Wireless sensor network for cyber physical systems

    Sharma, D. K., Dhurandher, S. K., Kumaram, S., Datta Gupta, K., Sharma, P. K.
    Computer Communications, vol. 189, pp. 182-192
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Optimal and Privacy-Aware Resource Management in Artificial Intelligence of Things Using Osmotic Computing

    Sharma, V., Tan, T. G., Singh, S., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 3377-3386
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An Ultra-Lightweight Data-Aggregation Scheme with Deep Learning Security for Smart Grid

    Gope, P., Sharma, P. K., Sikdar, B.
    IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 30-36
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • TFMD-SDVN: a trust framework for misbehavior detection in the edge of software-defined vehicular network

    Nayak, R. P., Sethi, S., Bhoi, S. K., Mohapatra, D., Sahoo, R. R., Sharma, P. K., Puthal, D.
    Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 78, no. 6, pp. 7948-7981
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Multiple Strategies Differential Privacy on Sparse Tensor Factorization for Network Traffic Analysis in 5G

    Wang, J., Han, H., Li, H., He, S., Sharma, P. K., Chen, L.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1939 - 1948
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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