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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EH-HL: Effective communication model by integrated EH-WSN and hybrid LiFi/WiFi for IoT
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1719-1726Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2791999
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OpCloudSec: Open cloud software defined wireless network security for the Internet of Things
Computer Communications, vol. 122, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2018.03.008
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A Software Defined Fog Node Based Distributed Blockchain Cloud Architecture for IoT
IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 115-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2757955
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DSS-SL: Dynamic signage system based on SDN with LiFi communication for smart buildings
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7605-3_128
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Social network security: Issues, challenges, threats, and solutions
Information Sciences, vol. 421, pp. 43-69Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2017.08.063
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A Hesitant Fuzzy Based Security Approach for Fog and Mobile-Edge Computing
IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 688-701Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2774837
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DistBlockNet: A Distributed Blockchains-Based Secure SDN Architecture for IoT Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 78-85Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700041
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XSSClassifier: An efficient XSS attack detection approach based on machine learning classifier on SNSs
Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1014-1028Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.03.0079
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Advanced lightweight encryption algorithms for IoT devices: survey, challenges and solutions
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, pp. 1-18Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0494-4
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Block-VN: A distributed blockchain based vehicular network architecture in smart city
Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 184-195Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/JIPS.03.0065
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A security model for protecting virtualization in cloud computing
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3023-9_60
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Solving standard cell placement problem using discrete firefly algorithm: A nature inspired approach
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3023-9_59
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DFA-AD: a distributed framework architecture for the detection of advanced persistent threats
Cluster Computing, vol. 20, pp. 597-609Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-016-0716-0
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EH-GC: An efficient and secure architecture of energy harvesting green cloud infrastructure
Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 4, 673Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040673
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i-shss: An IoT based smart home security system
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5041-1_51
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Novel assessment method for accessing private data in social network security services
Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 3307-3325Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-017-2018-6
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On solving partition driven standard cell placement problem using firefly-based metaheuristic approach
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 121-127Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIC.2017.083101
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SH-SecNet: An enhanced secure network architecture for the diagnosis of security threats in a smart home
Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 4, 513Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040513
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FS-OpenSecurity: A taxonomic modeling of security threats in SDN for future sustainable computing
Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 8, no. 9, 919Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su8090919
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Secure clouds forensic investigative architecture for social network cloud
Advanced Science Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2461-2464Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2016.7790
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A discrete firefly algorithm for VLSI circuit partitioning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECS.2014.6892764
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