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Dr. Safa Otoum

Assistant Professor

M.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Bio

Dr. Safa Otoum is an assistant professor of computer engineering in the College of Technological Innovation (CTI), Zayed University, United Arab Emirates and a researcher in the field of communications and networks security. Prior to joining the CTI, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa and has been a data scientist in Cheetah Networks Inc. Ottawa since 2019. She received her M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. She is actively working on several reputable events within IEEE and ACM.

Her research interests include networks security, Blockchain Applications, Applications of ML and Aim, IoT, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. She received several academic and research scholarships, including the prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral, the NSERC FSS and the RIF-Zayed University grant. Currently, she is an IEEE member and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) Ontario.

 
Office

Abu Dhabi Campus, FF2-0-47

Phone:

971-2-599-3846

Email:
Teaching Areas

Wireless Sensor Networks

Computer Network Technologies

Information and Computer Security

Data Science

Blockchain Applications

Distributed Systems

Research and Professional Activities

Research Area(s):

  • Networks Security
  • Blockchain Applications
  • AI-based Secure and Trustworthy Networks Solutions
  • Machine and Deep Learning Solutions
  • Federated Learning
  • Intrusions Detection and Prevention
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

Refereed journal papers

D. Berdik, S. Otoum, N. Schmidt, D. Porter, Y. Jararweh, "A Survey on Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security", Information Processing & Management, Volume 58, Issue 1, 2021. (Highly Cited Article)

Y. Jararweh, S. Otoum, I. Al Ridhawi, “Trustworthy and sustainable smart city services at the edge”, Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 62, 2020.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, " A Comparative Study of AI-based Intrusion Detection Techniques in Critical Infrastructures," in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2020.

Al-Khafajiy, M, Otoum, S, Baker, T, Asim, M, Maamar, Z, Aloqaily, M, Taylor, MJ and Randles, M Intelligent Control and Security of Fog Resources in Healthcare Systems via a Cognitive Fog Model. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2019.

Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, Yaser Jararweh, Thar Baker, “Providing secure and reliable communication for next generation networks in smart cities”, Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 56, 2020.

H. Salameh, S. Otoum, M. Aloqaily, R. Derbas, I. Ridhawi, Y. Jararweh, "Intelligent jamming-aware routing in multi-hop IoT-based opportunistic cognitive radio networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 98, 2020.

L. Tseng, L. Wong, S. Otoum, M. Aloqaily and J. B. Othman, "Blockchain for Managing Heterogeneous Internet of Things: A Perspective Architecture," in IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 16-23, January/February 2020.

V. Balasubramanian, S. Otoum, M. Aloqaily, I. Ridhawi, Y. Jararweh, “Low-latency vehicular edge: A vehicular infrastructure model for 5G”, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Volume 98, 2020.

M. Aloqaily, S. Otoum, I. Ridhawi, Y. Jararweh, “An intrusion detection system for connected vehicles in smart cities”, Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 90, 2019, 101842, ISSN 1570-8705. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, "On the Feasibility of Deep Learning in Sensor Network Intrusion Detection," in IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 68-71, June 2019. (FEATURED ARTICLE)

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, "Detection of Known and Unknown Intrusive Sensor Behavior in Critical Applications," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 1-4, Oct. 2017, Art no. 7500804.


Papers in refereed conference proceedings

S. Otoum, I. Al Ridhawi and H. T. Mouftah, "Blockchain-Supported Federated Learning for Trustworthy Vehicular Networks," GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, "A Novel Ensemble Method for Advanced Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, 2020.

Yehdego H., Otoum S., Alfandi O. (2021) An IoT-Based Non-invasive Diabetics Monitoring System for Crucial Conditions. Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2020). Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 345. Springer, Cham.

O. Alfandi, S. Otoum and Y. Jararweh, "Blockchain Solution for IoT-based Critical Infrastructures: Byzantine Fault Tolerance," NOMS 2020 - 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, 2020.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. Mouftah, "Empowering Reinforcement Learning on Big Sensed Data for Intrusion Detection," ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, 2019.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. Mouftah, "Adaptively Supervised and Intrusion-Aware Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Clusters in Critical Infrastructures," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, "Mitigating False Negative intruder decisions in WSN-based Smart Grid monitoring," 2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Valencia, 2017.

S. Otoum, B. Kantarci and H. T. Mouftah, "Hierarchical trust-based black-hole detection in WSN-based smart grid monitoring," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, 2017.

S. Otoum, M. Ahmed and H. T. Mouftah, "Sensor Medium Access Control (SMAC)-based epilepsy patients monitoring system," 2015 IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Halifax, NS, 2015.


SERVICES:

Area Editor:

  • Cluster Computing, Springer, 2020.

 

General Co-Chair:

  • The First International Workshop on Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems using Futuristic Technologies in conjunction with GLOBECOM 2021, Madrid, Spain.
  • The First International Workshop on Securing Next-Generation Connected Healthcare Systems using Futuristic Technologies in conjunction with International Conference on Networked Systems 2021, September 2021, Germany.

Technical Program Co-Chair:

  • The 13th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures (PEDISWESA’2021) in conjunction with the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2021, Athens, Greece.
  • 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  •  The Second International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2019), Granada, Spain.

Guest Editor:

  • Electronics at MDPI, Reinforcing Preventative Healthcare Solutions with AI, Blockchain and Next Generation Networks, Sep. 2021.

Publicity Chair

  • The Second International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC) In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2020.

  • EAI ADHOCNETS 2020 will be held as a fully-fledged online conference.

  • The 12th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2020).

  • The International Symposium on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2019), Granada, Spain. October 22-25, 2019.

  • The First International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2018), Valencia, Spain.

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