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Dr Mujeeb Ur Rehman is an experienced academic with more than 10 years of teaching and research experience at prestigious institutions, including ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ (UK), University of Glasgow (UK), and York St John University (UK), among others. He is recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (2025). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Professional Member of BCS, he actively contributes to the academic and research community. He has supervised numerous PhD, MSc, and undergraduate students in their dissertations and has published over 50 research papers in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions, IET Transactions, and Elsevier, as well as in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. In 2022, he was endorsed as a Global Talent in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security by the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). He has also received several best paper awards at international conferences. Academically, he earned a Gold Medal in his MS (Engineering) degree and a Distinction in his BS (Engineering) degree. In addition to his academic achievements, he is a member of the Talent Peer Review College at UKRI, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), where he evaluates funding applications and contributes to shaping research directions. Furthermore, he has successfully led and collaborated on multiple internationally funded research projects, securing over £1.8 million in competitive grants both within the UK and internationally.

• Digital Future Institute (Full Membership)
• Cyber Technology Innovations (CTI)
• Innovative Artificial Intelligence (IAI)

Reecent Selected Journal Papers

• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity: The Convergenceof AI, Quantum Computing, and Ethical Frameworks for a Secure Digital Era, ”Computer Science Review, 2026 (Impact factor: 12.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and AssistiveTechnologies in the Diagnosis and Intervention of Mental Health Conditions, ”Artificial Intelligence Review, 2026 (Impact factor: 13.9) (Accepted).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Blockchain-Enabled Identity Management for IoT: A Multi-Layered Defense Against Adversarial AI,” Scientific Reports, 2026 (Impact factor: 3.9) (Accepted).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Hybrid Deep Learning Based Load Forecasting and AI-Driven Energy Management for Grid-Connected Multi-Microgrids,” Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2026 (Impact factor: 4.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Enhancing the efficacy of hormone therapy in prostatecancer through Conditional Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control and Redfoxoptimization,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2026 (Impact factor: 4.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Machine Learning and Multivariate Analysisof Depression Prevalence and Predictors in Acute Coronary Syndrome.” IEEEAccess, 2025 (Impact factor: 3.467).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Diabetes: A HybridMachine Learning Approach,” Biomedical Physics Engineering Express, 2025 (Impact factor: 1.6).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “A CatBoost and ExtraTrees-Based Softvoting Ensemble Approach for Non-Invasive Diabetes Detection Using Hair LIBS Spectral Data,” Microchemical Journal, 2025 (Impact factor: 5.1).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Enhancing Fall Detection in Alzheimer’s Patients using Unsupervised Domain Adaptation,” Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2025 (Impact factor: 2.5).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Application of Laser Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for Diagnostics of Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes”, Applied Spectroscopy, 2025 (Impact factor: 2.2).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, “Quantum-Enhanced Chaotic Image Encryption: Strengthening Digital Data Security with 1-D Sine-Based Chaotic Maps and Quantum Coding” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2024 (Solo Author Paper, Impact factor: 6.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A Fusion of Machine Learning and Cryptography for Fast Data Encryption through the Encoding of High and Moderate Plaintext Information Blocks” MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 2024 (Impact factor: 3.6).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Sustainable Environmental Monitoring: Multistage Fusion Algorithm for Remotely Sensed Underwater Super-Resolution Image Enhancement and Classification” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2025 (Impact factor 4.7). 
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Voice Disorder Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms: An Application in Speech and Language Pathology” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024 (Impact factor: 8.0).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A novel medical image data protection scheme for smart healthcare system” CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 2024 (Impact factor: 5.1).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Robust encryption framework for IoT devices based on bit-plane extraction, chaotic sine models, and quantum operations” Internet of Things, 2024 (Impact factor: 5.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Enhancing image security via chaotic maps, Fibonacci, Tribonacci transformations, and DWT diffusion: a robust data encryption approach” Scientific Reports, 2024 (Impact factor: 3.8).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Fingernail Diagnostics: Advancing type II diabetes detection using machine learning algorithms and laser spectroscopy” Microchemical Journal, 2024 (Impact factor: 4.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A Compact 3-stage Pipelined Hardware Accelerator for Point Multiplication of Binary Elliptic Curves over GF(2233)” IEEE Access, 2024 (Impact factor: 3.467).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Unif-NTT: A Unified Hardware Design of Forward and Inverse NTT for PQC Algorithms” IEEE Access, 2024 (Impact factor: 3.467).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Innovative Cybersecurity for Enhanced Data Protection: An Extended Bit-Plane Extraction and Chaotic Permutation Diffusion Approach in Information Security” IEEE Access, 2024 (Impact factor: 3.467).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Securing Medical Information Transmission Between IoT Devices: An Innovative Hybrid Encryption Scheme Based on Quantum Walk, DNA Encoding, and Chaos” Internet of Things, 2023 (Impact factor: 5.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “An Efficient Deep Learning Model for Brain Tumor Detection with Privacy Preservation” CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 2023 (Impact factor: 5.1).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Efficient and Secure Image Encryption Using Key Substitution Process with Discrete Wavelet Transform” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2023 (Impact factor: 6.9).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A Novel Parallel Computing Confidentiality Scheme Based on Hindmarsh-Rose Model” CMC-Computers, Materials Continua, 2023 (Impact factor: 3.86).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Chaos and Cellular Automata-based Substitution Box and its Application in Cryptography” MDPI Mathematics, 2023 (Impact ffactor: 2.592).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Securing High-Resolution Images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with DNA Encoding and Bit-Plane Extraction Method.” IEEE Access, 2023 (Impact factor: 3.467).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A Novel Chaos-based Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis.” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022 (Impact factor: 5.033).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “A Secure and Immutable Framework for Smart Healthcare Services using Blockchain Technology.” Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 2022 (Impact factor: 4.397).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Novel Privacy Preserving Non-Invasive Sensing Based Diagnoses of Pneumonia Disease Leveraging Deep Network Model.” Sensors, 2022 (Impact factor: 3.847).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Non-Invasive Early Diagnosis of Obstructive Lung Diseases Leveraging Machine Learning Algorithms.” CMC-Computers, Materials Continua, 2022 (Impact factor: 3.860).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Future Forecasting of COVID-19: A Supervised Learning Approach.”, Sensors, 2021 (Impact factor: 3.847).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Dynamic Substitution and Confusion-Diffusion Based Noise-resistive Image Encryption Using Multiple Chaotic Maps.”, IEEE Access, 2021 (Impact factor: 3.367).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman et al., “Noise-resistant Image Encryption Scheme for Medical Images in the Chaos and Wavelet Domain.”, IEEE Access, 2021 (Impact ffactor: 3.367).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman, et al., “Synthesis and Design of Highly Selective Multi Mode Dual-Band Bandstop Filter.”, IEEE Access, 2021 (Impact Factor: 3.367).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman et al., “Detecting the Security Level of Various cryptosystems Using Machine Learning Models.”, IEEE Access, 2020 (Impact ffactor: 3.367).

Recent Selected Conference Papers

• Mujeeb Ur Rehman et al.,“ Metaheuristically Enhanced ANN-Based Intrusion Detection System with Explainable AI Integration,” 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE, Pages 1-8, 2025 (Category A).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman et al.,“ Deep Learning Based Captioning of Toys in a Smart Monitoring System,” 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE, Pages 1-8, 2025 (Category A).
• Mujeeb Ur Rehman et al.,“ Zero-Day Attack Detection System Using Autoencoders and Isolation Forest: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach,” 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 245-258, 2025.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cyber Security
• Post-Quantum Cryptography
• AI for Healthcare
• Homomorphic Encryption
• Zero-Knowledge Proof
• IoMT
• Digital Healthcare System
• Data Science

• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning
• Information Security
• Computer Programming
• Data Analytics
• Entrepreneurship

• PhD (Applied AI and Cyber Security)
• Masters in Engineering
• Bachelors in Engineering

• High Assurance System Design (CTEC5723)
• Embedded Systems and IoT (CTEC 3706)
• Critical Systems (CTEC5722)
• Object Oriented Development (CTEC2304)
• OO Design and Development (CTEC2710)

• World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier, 2025).
• Global Talent, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK - Recognised for excellence in AI and Cybersecurity.
• Best Researcher Award, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, Leicester, UK, 2024-2025.
• Best Supervisor Mentor of the Year Award, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, Leicester, UK, 2024-2025.
• Young Researcher Award, 3rd International Conference on EmergingTrends & Innovation (ICETI), 30 & 31 October, 2025, NationalVocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC), Center ofExcellence, Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Best Paper Award, Intrusion Detection using Machine Learning Techniques: An Experimental Comparison, the International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN 2021), July 2021, Yemen.
• Best Paper Award, Anomaly Detection and Attack Classification Using Machine Learning, The 2nd International Conference of Advanced Computing and Informatics (ICACIN 2021), May 2021, Casablanca, Morocco. 
• Distinction in BS (Engineering)
• First Position in MS (Certificate of Distinction, Gold Medal Award)
• PhD Studentship Award 

• General Chair in SciMeTech-SD-26 International Conference, Essaouira, Morocco, May 17-19, 2026.
• General Chair in 4th International Conference on Emerging Trends & Innovation (ICETI), Islamabad, Pakistan, November 25-26, 2026.
• Program Committee Member in ICSC2023 (The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference), San Antonio, USA, October 23-25, 2023.
• Program Committee Member in CGVC 23, The 41st Computer Graphics Visual Computing Conference, Wales, UK, September 14-15, 2023.
• Program Committee Member in IEEE Global Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GlobConPT), New Delhi, India, September 22-24, 2023.
• Program Committee Member in ICAISC 23, The 1st International Conference on Advanced Innovations in Smart Cities, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, January 23-25, 2023.
• Program Committee Member in SMARTTECH-22, The 2022 International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 22-24, 2022.

1. Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE)
2. Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College
3. Member of the NIHR
4. Professional Engineer 
5. MBCS
6. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
7. Member of the IEEE Computer Society
8. Member of the International Neural Networks Society

• Noise-tolerant Data Security Using Machine learning: An Application in Unmanned Ariel Vehicles, Abu Dhabi University, UAE (Research Consultant, 2022-2023).
• Security Protocols for Digital Images Using Chaos and Machine learning, Abu Dhabi University, UAE (Research Consultant, 2021-2022).
• Defending Against Intrusion of Malicious UAVs Using Ethical Hacking, Abu Dhabi University, UAE (Research Consultant, 2020- 2021).
• Noise-Resistant Image Encryption Scheme for Medical Images in the Chaos and Wavelet Domain, King Khalid Univerity, Abha, Saudi Arabia (Research Consultant, 2020-2021).

First Supervisor for Current PhD Researchers

Ongoing Research Funding and Grants:

1. The Hybrid Cyber Range (HCR) project, supported by the UK's six Electricity Distribution Network Operators(DNO), 2025-2028.
2. Protecting Medical Data: A Novel AI-Driven E-Healthcare Solution using Post Quantum Lightweight Cryptography, Cyber security academic startup accelerator programme 2024-25: phase 1, Innovate UK (Principal Investigator (PI), 2024-2025).
3. Protecting Medical Data: A Novel AI-Driven E-Healthcare Solution using Post Quantum Lightweight Cryptography, Cyber security academic startup accelerator programme 2024-25: phase 2, Innovate UK (Principal Investigator (PI), 2024-2025).
4. Scotland–England Collaboration on Developing Human Resource in Quantum Technologies in Healthcare and Promoting Public Trust in Digital Health, Quantum ARC (Scottish Research Council), (Principal Investigator (PI), 2024-25).
5. Co-design for SDG16 pursuit: Using an integrated systems and design thinking approach for tackling the complex issues of individually displaced persons and migration’, PRME, UK, (Co-Investigator (Co-I), 2025-2026).
6. Integrating Chaos Theory, Algebraic Structures and Machine Learning for Advanced Cyber Security Solutions, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, (Co-Investigator (Co-I), 2024-2025). 

• QSafe Technology: A Spinout Initiative for Quantum-Resilient Digital Data Protection,Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF), UK (Principal-Investigator (PI), 2026).
• QSafeT Mini-PoC From lab idea to real-world demo, Faculty Research and Innovation FUnd, (¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ), UK (Principal-Investigator (PI), 2025-26).
• Lingua Manus 2.0: AI, Sign Language, and Community. A Glove for True Expression. Faculty Research Funding, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, (Principal Investigator (PI), 2025.

Reflection-less Bandstop Notch RF Filter for Interference Mitigation in Wireless Communication Systems, International Patent Office (IPO), 2024.

Ongoing External Academic Activities:

1. Editor in Chief for ICCK Transactions on Cybersecurity, 2025.
2. Academic Editor for Scientific Reports, Nature Journal (Impact Factor: 3.8), 2025.
3. Academic Editor for Journal of Multimedia Technology & Recent Advancements, 2025.
4. Academic Editor for American Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2025.
5. Academic Editor for European Scientific Journal, 2025.
6. Academic Editor for Eterno Press, 2025.
7. Associate Editor for Quantum Research, ELSP Publishing, 2025.
8. Lead Guest Editor in Special Issue, “Next-Generation Cybersecurity: AI, PostQuantum Cryptography, and Chaotic Innovations,” Computers, Materials & Continua (impact factor 1.7), September 2025 to June 2026.
9. Delivered a keynote talk on Cyber Defence at the International Seminar on “Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity,” organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, 25–26 November 2025.
10. Delivered a keynote talk on AI-Driven System for Quantum-Safe Video & Telemetry at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends& Innovation (ICETI), 30 & 31 October, 2025, National Vocational and TechnicalTraining Commission (NAVTTC), Center of Excellence, Islamabad, Pakistan.
11. Advisory Board Member at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends& Innovation (ICETI), 30 & 31 October, 2025, National Vocational and TechnicalTraining Commission (NAVTTC), Center of Excellence, Islamabad, Pakistan.
12. Delivered a keynote talk on AI and Cyber Security at Innovate Educate, hosted bythe Artery Peer Support Group in Craven, held on April 13, 2023, in York, UK.
13. Delivered a keynote talk on AI for Healthcare at the University of Haripur, held on May 30, 2023, Pakistan.
14. Lead Guest Editor in Book, “AI and Post-Quantum Approaches for MultimediaSecurity,” IET Publisher, 2025  - 2026.
15. Guest Editor in Book, “Edge Intelligence: Advanced Deep Transfer Learning for IoT Security”, Elsvier Publisher, 2025 - 2026.
16. Lead Guest Editor in Special Issue, “Application of Cloud Computing in Industrial Internet of Things”, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (impact factor 3.7), 2025.
17. Lead Guest Editor in Special Issue, “Next-Generation Cybersecurity: AI, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and Chaotic Innovations,” Computers, Materials &
    Continua (impact factor 1.7), September 2025 to June 2026.
18. Special Session Chair, “Privacy-Preserving Techniques in the Quantum Computing Era: Innovative Approaches for Enhanced Information Security”, The 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2024), 28 Aug - 30 Aug 2024, Sunderland, UK.
19. Guest Editor in Special Issue, “Emerging Technologies in Information Security”, CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering Science (impact factor 2.4), 2024.
20. Guest Editor in Special Issue, “Innovations in Mathematical Analysis for Advanced Information Systems, Data Analysis and Its Applications”, Axioms, MDPI (impact factor 2.0), 2024.
21. Reviewer for many journals and conferences

Post-Quantum Cryptography for quantum-resilient digital data protection (Submitted an institutional REF impact case study at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ aligned to the QSafeT pathway; In progress with planned submission to the forthcoming REF cycle, 2028-29.)

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