Rate My Professor Keyvan Ansari

Dr. Keyvan Ansari is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University, where he joined in 2023. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, obtained between 2010 and 2014. His doctoral work focused on inter-vehicle communications and positioning. Following his PhD, Ansari served as an Associate Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at QUT from 2014 to 2016. He then moved to the University of the Sunshine Coast, where he was a Lecturer in Information and Communications Technology from September 2016 to January 2023. At Murdoch, he contributes to teaching in cybersecurity fundamentals and coordinates aspects of the Master of Information Technology program.

Ansari's research specializations encompass connected vehicles, smart mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and cybersecurity, with emphasis on intelligent autonomous systems, pervasive communications, distributed IoT architectures, cloud computing, and security protocols. His publications demonstrate substantial impact, with over 778 citations on Google Scholar. Notable works include 'An IoT architecture for preventive maintenance of medical devices in healthcare organizations' (2019, with J. Maktoubian, cited by 121), 'Joint use of DSRC and C-V2X for V2X communications in the presence of non-IoT vehicles' (2021, cited by 109), 'Cooperative Position Prediction: Beyond Vehicle-to-Vehicle Relative Positioning' (2020, cited by 86), 'Stochastic Modeling of IoT Botnet Spread: A Short Survey on Mobile Malware Spread Modeling' (2020, with A. Mahboubi and S. Camtepe, cited by 66), 'Robust certificateless authentication protocol for the SAE J1939 commercial vehicles bus' (2023, with B. Palaniswamy et al., cited by 20), and 'Cloud Computing on Cooperative Cars (C4S): An Architecture' (2018). Recent contributions feature 'A taxonomy proposal of information assurance and data quality solutions in smart cities' (2025, with D. Suleman et al.) and advancements in ransomware protection such as 'File System Shield (FSS): A Pass-Through Strategy Against Unwanted Encryption' (2024). Ansari has chaired and served on technical program committees for international conferences and acts as an editorial board member and reviewer for journals and magazines in his field.