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Farkhund Iqbal

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  • Ph.D. Department of computer science and software engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2011

  • M.S. Department of computer science and software engineering, Concordia University, Canada, 2006

  • B.Sc., Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 1994

  • Cybersecurity

  • Digital Forensics

  • Machine learning & Data science

  • Smart city and smart home security & forensics

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Internship Coordinator, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi (Aug 1, 2021- Date.)

  • Graduate Program Coordinator, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University (Aug 2015 to Oct 30, 2017)

  • Assistant Professor & Co-Director Advanced Cyber Forensics Research Laboratory, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University (2012 - 2016)

  • Associate Professor & Director Advanced Cyber Forensics Research Laboratory, College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University (May 2016 to Date)

  • Affiliate Faculty Member, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada (Jan 2016 to Date), Montreal, Canada.

  • Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business and IT, Ontario Tech University (2015 - date), Ontario, Canada.

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. (Jan 2011 - Aug 2012).

  • I have actively contributed to the college and university by serving on different committees and task forces including the following:

    - University standing committee for graduate studies, Zayed University, UAE

    - Graduate Affairs University Standing Committee, Zayed University, UAE

    - Graduate council, Zayed University, UAE

    - College council

    - College advisory council

    - College Faculty search committee

    - College Research committee

    - Member of task force for CAA accreditation for graduate curriculum

    - College graduate affairs committee

Chair: Conference / Track / Program

  • International symposium on Computing in Smart Toys in Conjunction with Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS-50 (2017), Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii.

  • Launched the First IFIP NTMS International Workshop on Cybercrime Investigation and Digital forensics (CID) in conjunction with the 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS2016), Cyprus, Larnaca, Cyprus.

  • SWT Leader of "Computing in Smart Toys," Half-day Symposium, SWT Theme: Software Development Approach, the IEEE 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2018

  • Second IFIP NTMS International Workshop on Cybercrime Investigation and Digital forensics (CID), NTMS'2018 is the 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security that will be held from 26 to 28 February 2018 in Paris – France.

Guest Editor

  • Special Issue: Towards Secure, Privacy-Preserving, and Reliable Smart Cities and Society, Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society.2017-18

  • Special issues "Cybercrime Investigation and Digital Forensics" (https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-digital-crime-forensics/1112) in the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF) 2017-18.

  • Book called "Cybercrime Investigation and Digital Forensics" in the Springer International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology (http://www.springer.com/series/13820).

Reviewer

Have worked as a guest editor and reviewer for various journals and conferences in cybersecurity, digital forensics, smart city and smart Toys.

  • Elsevier, Digital Investigation journal

  • Elsevier, Sustainable Cities and Society

  • IEEE international conference of Privacy, Security and Trust

  • International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF)

  • IEEE International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Dubai, United Arab

  • EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime.

Journals (Last Ten)

Google scholar (citations: 1815 and h-index: 22, i10-index: 38), Scopus (Citations: 680, h-index:21) and DBLP [j30, c47]. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9081-3598

Published more than 100 refereed papers in high ranked journals/conferences including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (JCR impact factor: 7.384, 5-year: 7.678), Information Sciences (JCR impact factor: 4.832, 5-year: 4.732), Elsevier Digital Investigation Journal, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS-53 (2020), and IEEE 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS.

  • Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi, and Benjamin C. M. Fung. Machine Learning for Authorship Attribution and Cyber Forensics, ser. Computer Entertainment and Media Technology. 194 pages, Springer Nature, December 2020. [book | ISBN: 978-3-030-61674-8]

  • Rashid Hussain Khokhar, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Jamal Bentahar: Enabling Secure Trustworthiness Assessment and Privacy Protection in Integrating Data for Trading Person-Specific Information. IEEE Trans. Engineering Management 68(1): 149-169 (2021)

  • Khalifa Al-Room, Farkhund Iqbal, Thar Baker, Babar Shah, Benjamin Yankson, Áine MacDermott, Patrick C. K. Hung: Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Digital Forensic Investigations Conducted on Common Drone Models. Int. J. Digit. Crime Forensics 13(1): 1-25 (2021)

  • Farkhund Iqbal, Rabia Batool, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Saiqa Aleem, Ahmed Abbasi, Abdul Rehman Javed: Toward Tweet-Mining Framework for Extracting Terrorist Attack-Related Information and Reporting. IEEE Access 9: 115535-115547 (2021)

  • Hana Bouafif, Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal: Towards a Better Understanding of Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Parrot AR Drone 2.0. Int. J. Digit. Crime Forensics 12(1): 35-57 (2020)

  • Áine MacDermott, Thar Baker, Paul Buck, Farkhund Iqbal, Qi Shi: The Internet of Things: Challenges and Considerations for Cybercrime Investigations and Digital Forensics. Int. J. Digit. Crime Forensics 12(1): 1-13 (2020)

  • Farkhund Iqbal, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Rabia Batool, Asad Masood Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, Patrick C. K. Hung: A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction. IEEE Access 7: 14637-14652 (2019)

  • Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Mourad Debbabi, Rabia Batool, Andrew Marrington: Wordnet-Based Criminal Networks Mining for Cybercrime Investigation. IEEE Access 7: 22740-22755 (2019).

  • Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin Yankson, Maryam A. AlYammahi, Naeema AlMansoori, Suaad Mohammed Qayed, Babar Shah, Thar Baker: Drone forensics: examination and analysis. Int. J. Electron. Secur. Digit. Forensics 11(3): 245-264 (2019).

  • Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, William K. Cheung: Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis. IEEE Trans. Cybern. 49(1): 107-121 (2019).

  • Best paper award: 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Canterbury CA United Kingdom August 26 - 29, 2019

  • Provost's Research Fellowship award 2020-21, Zayed University.

  • Exceed Expectation Award 2020-21

  • CTI nominated me for Research Award 2018-19

  • Exceed Expectation Award 2016-17

  • Exceptional Employee Award 2016-17

  • Outstanding Faculty Award 2015-16

  • Salary increase Award for 2014-15

  • Exemplary Merit Award 2013-14

  • Outstanding Reviewer award Elsevier

  • Secured more than US$ 2.5 M research funding (as PI and Co-PI) from internal and external funding agencies including 22 internal grants.

Our research work is reported in more than 55 different media houses including New York Times, Toronto Start and CBC radio Canada.

Authorship Analysis: http://dmas.lab.mcgill.ca/fung/media.htm

Contributed developing a new Master’s program on Information Systems and restructuring the existing Master’s program in Cybersecurity.

  • SEC630: Cyber Forensics

  • SEC535: Advanced Cyber forensics

  • SEC599: Independent Research

  • SEC638: Small Scale Digital Devices Forensics

  • SEC699: Master’s thesis

Successfully supervised more than 16 Master’s and PhD students at Zayed University, McGill University and Ontario Tech University, Canada.