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Computation offloading in the edge-to-cloud compute continuum: a survey of federated architectural solutions

Journal Article
Pournazari, J., Ullah, A., Al-Dubai, A., & Liu, X. (in press)
Computation offloading in the edge-to-cloud compute continuum: a survey of federated architectural solutions. Cluster Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-025-05577-6

Digital Twin-Enabled Lightweight Attack Detection for Software-Defined Edge Networks

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yigit, Y., Gursu, K., Al-Dubai, A., Maglaras, L. A., & Canberk, B. (2025, March)
Digital Twin-Enabled Lightweight Attack Detection for Software-Defined Edge Networks. Presented at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Milan, Italy
With the development of software-defined edge networks, network management has become more flexible and realtime. However, this advancement has also led to critical security c...

Arabic Cyberbullying Detection: A Comprehensive Review of Datasets and Methodologies

Journal Article
Aljalaoud, H., Dashtipour, K., & AI_Dubai, A. (2025)
Arabic Cyberbullying Detection: A Comprehensive Review of Datasets and Methodologies. IEEE Access, 13, 69021-69038. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3561132
The freedom of speech in online spaces has substantially promoted engagement on social media platforms, where cyberbullying has emerged as a significant consequence. While ext...

Arabic Short-text Dataset for Sentiment Analysis of Tourism and Leisure Events

Journal Article
Basabain, S., Al‐Dubai, A., Cambria, E., Alomar, K., & Hussain, A. (2025)
Arabic Short-text Dataset for Sentiment Analysis of Tourism and Leisure Events. Expert Systems, 42(5), Article e70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.70030
The focus of this study is to present the detailed process of collecting a dataset of Arabic short-text in the tourism context and annotating this dataset for the task of sent...

Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Energy Provisioning Technologies, Charging Scheduling Schemes, and Challenges

Journal Article
Abdel Aziz, S., Wang, X., Hawbani, A., Qureshi, . B., Alsamhi, S. H., Alabsi, A., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Ismail, . A. (online)
Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Energy Provisioning Technologies, Charging Scheduling Schemes, and Challenges. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2025.3549414
Recently, a plethora of promising green energy provisioning technologies has been discussed in the orientation of prolonging the lifetime of energy-limited devices (e.g., sens...

Accurate AI-Driven Emergency Vehicle Location Tracking in Healthcare ITS’s Digital Twin

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Shareeda, S., Celik, Y., Bilgili, B., Al-Dubai, A., & Canberk, B. (2025, February)
Accurate AI-Driven Emergency Vehicle Location Tracking in Healthcare ITS’s Digital Twin. Presented at 2025 5th IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM), Byblos, Lebanon
Creating a Digital Twin (DT) for Healthcare Intelligent Transportation Systems (HITS) is a hot research trend focusing on enhancing HITS management, particularly in emergencie...

Integrating Reality: A Hybrid SDN Testbed for Enhanced Realism in Edge Computing Simulations

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Almaini, A., Koßmann, T., Folz, J., Schramm, M., Heigl, M., & Al-Dubai, A. (2024, June)
Integrating Reality: A Hybrid SDN Testbed for Enhanced Realism in Edge Computing Simulations. Presented at UNet24: The International Conference on Ubiquitous Networking, Marrakesh, Morocco
Recent advancements in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) have facilitated its deployment across diverse network types, including edge networks. Given the broad applicability o...

A Novel Cosine-Modulated-Polynomial Chaotic Map to Strengthen Image Encryption Algorithms in IoT Environments

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Ahmad, J., Al-Dubai, A., Pitropakis, N., Driss, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024, September)
A Novel Cosine-Modulated-Polynomial Chaotic Map to Strengthen Image Encryption Algorithms in IoT Environments. Presented at 28th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems (KES 2024), Spain
With the widespread use of the Internet of Things (IoT), securing the storage and transmission of multimedia content across IoT devices is a critical concern. Chaos-based Pseu...

CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems

Journal Article
Zhao, L., Mao, C., Wan, S., Hawbani, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Min, G., & Zomaya, A. Y. (2025)
CAST: Efficient Traffic Scenario Inpainting in Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 24(3), 2331-2345. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2024.3492148
As a promising vehicular communication technology, Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) is expected to ensure the safety and convenience of Intelligent Transportation System...

VisCrypt: Image Encryption Featuring Novel Chaotic Key Generation and Block Permutation Techniques with Visual Cryptography

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Ahmad, J., Ali, M., Al Dubai, A., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024, July)
VisCrypt: Image Encryption Featuring Novel Chaotic Key Generation and Block Permutation Techniques with Visual Cryptography. Presented at 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Advanced Technologies, Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP), Sousse, Tunisia
In this digital era, ensuring the security of data transmission is critically important. Digital data, especially image data, needs to be secured against unauthorized access. ...
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Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance pharmacovigilance and side-effect reporting of new drugs

2024 - 2027
The proposed PhD research will be conducted as part of the esteemed UK EPSRC funded COG-MHEAR research program, which aims to revolutionize the field of hearing assistive technology through the develo...
Funder: Bawazeer group | Value: £36,653

Innovative energy harvesting solutions for cyber-secured green buildings

2022 - 2025
This adventurous and multidisciplinary project aims to develop new techniques for harvesting energy from footsteps and acoustic energy sources (zero-net resources such as footstep mats, flexible solar...
Funder: Kuwait College of Science and Technology | Value: £113,999

Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

2022 - 2024
The great leap forward in wireless communications technology drives the recent advancements of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). As a key part of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) framewo...
Funder: Royal Society | Value: £12,000

KTP Ace Aquatec

2021 - 2023
To develop, test and incorporate Innovative AI based approaches to improve accuracy of Individual fish identification and sea lice detection.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £265,334

COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired, 5G-IoT enabled multi-modal hearing aids

2021 - 2026
Embracing the multimodal nature of speech presents both opportunities and challenges for hearing assistive technology: on the one hand there are opportunities for the design of new multimodal audio-vi...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £3,258,999

Reliable Internet of Things based monitoring & Surveillance in Oil & Gas Fields (RsIoT)

2015 - 2017
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of things are among the top potential new technologies that dramatically alter the world and the way we live and work. Indeed, in recent decades, the need ...
Value: £66,635

Building new research partnerships with the Qatari Institutions

2012 - 2012
This short research visit aims at building research collaborative links with the Texas A & M University at Qatar and the University of Qatar
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,700

International Conference Grant

2009 - 2009
International Travel
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £1,000

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Improving Hearing Aids Using Visual and Sound Information through AI Technology

2025 - date
Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Prof Amir Hussain

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance pharmacovigilance and side-effect reporting of new drugs

2024 - date
Dr Mahmoud Elrggal | Director of Studies: Prof Amir Hussain | Second Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

On the Design of complex encryption schemes, for instance, chaos-based encryption, to achieve a desirable level of IoT security

2023 - date
Shahbaz Khan | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Dr Nick Pitropakis

Privacy and Security

2023 - date
Huda Aljalaoud | Director of Studies: Dr Kia Dashtipour

An AI-based Biometrics Facial Recognition Continuous Authentication Framework and Protocols for Shoulder Surfing Attacks

2023 - date
Nida Zeeshan | Director of Studies: Dr Luigi La Spada | Second Supervisor: Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor

2022 - date
Idrees Hasan | Director of Studies: Dr Kia Dashtipour | Second Supervisor: Dr. Mandar Gogate

AI enabled orchestration of next generation Internet-of-Things systems in the Cloud-to-Things computing continuum

2022 - date
Jaber Pournazari | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Prof Xiaodong Liu

A computational outlook on sepsis dynamics: A foundation for artificial intelligence-based analytics for temporal transcriptomics in critical care

2021 - date
Director of Studies: Prof Amir Hussain | Second Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Applying Brain-signals Analysis for Evaluation of user experience in healthcare application

2021 - date
Hanadi Alfraidi | Director of Studies: Prof Amir Hussain | Second Supervisor: Dr Baraq Ghaleb

On reliable and secure RPL (routing protocol low-power and lossy networks) based monitoring and surveillance in oil and gas fields

2021 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Baraq Ghaleb | Second Supervisor: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

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