Rate My Professor Mohamed Waqas

Dr. Muhammad Waqas is a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich, part of the Faculty of Engineering and Science in London, UK. In this role, he heads the V2X Cyber Range Lab, contributes significantly to research outputs, curriculum development, and module leadership particularly in Computer Networks and Computer Forensics. He also maintains an Adjunct Senior Lecturer appointment at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. His career trajectory includes serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahrain, Research Associate at Beijing University of Technology in China, and earlier as a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology in Peshawar, Pakistan. Waqas obtained his PhD in Information and Communication Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, complemented by MSc and BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Wireless Communication from institutions in Pakistan.

Affiliated with the Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) as a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security specializing in Wireless Communications Security, his academic interests span Wireless Communications encompassing 5G and 6G technologies, Vehicular Networks, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning applications. Waqas has led or contributed to several funded research projects in these domains as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or consultant. His prolific publication record features peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals, including "SF-Net: Spatial-Frequency Feature Synthesis for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery" (2026, IEEE JSTARS), "Complementary Information Mining for Redundancy and Weakly Aligned RGB-T Semantic Segmentation" (2026, IEEE TGRS), "TruChord: A Secure Communication Framework for Hybrid SDIoT Architecture Based on Chord Overlay" (2025, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing), "Desynchronization-Resistant Anonymous Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems Utilizing Physically Unclonable Functions" (2025, IEEE Internet of Things Journal), and "SLIM: A Secure and Lightweight Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Signcryption Scheme for IoT" (2023). Among his honors is the Best Research Paper Award from ASSP 2021. He has delivered invited talks and chaired sessions at international conferences and seminars. His research has garnered over 4,800 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring his influence in advancing secure wireless and cyber-physical systems.