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Safa Otoum

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  • Ph.D.: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2019

  • Master (M.A.Sc): Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2014.

  • Internet of Things (IoTs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).

  • Artificial Intelligent (AI)-based critical infrastructures.

  • Security and Privacy of Digital Healthcare Infrastructures.

  • Empirical measurements for Internet of Things (IoTs) Security.

  • Privacy and Security in Network.

  • Assistant Professor, Zayed University (January 2020 - Present), Abu Dhabi, UAE

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, May.2019- December. 2019.

  • Ontario Professional Engineer (P.Eng), Canada, 2020.

  • Data Scientist, Cheetah Networks, Ottawa, Canada, 2019.

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.

Journals (Last Ten)

  • Safa Otoum, Burak Kantarci, and Hussein Mouftah. 2021. A Comparative Study of AI-Based Intrusion Detection Techniques in Critical Infrastructures. ACM Trans. Internet Technol. 21, 4, Article 81 (November 2021), 22 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3406093.

  • S. Otoum, I. Al Ridhawi and H. T. Mouftah, "Preventing and Controlling Epidemics Through Blockchain-Assisted AI-Enabled Networks," in IEEE Network, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 34-41, May/June 2021, doi: 10.1109/MNET.011.2000628.

  • S. Otoum, I. A. Ridhawi and H. Mouftah, "Securing Critical IoT Infrastructures with Blockchain-Supported Federated Learning," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3088056.

  • David Berdik, Safa Otoum, Nikolas Schmidt, Dylan Porter, Yaser Jararweh, "A Survey on Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security",Information Processing & Management, Volume 58, Issue 1, 2021, 102397, ISSN 0306-4573, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102397. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645732030892X)

  • Haythem Bany Salameh, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, Rawan Derbas, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Yaser Jararweh, “Intelligent jamming-aware routing in multi-hop IoT-based opportunistic cognitive radio networks”. Ad Hoc Networks 98 (2020).

  • Lewis Tseng, Liwen Wong, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, Jalel Ben-Othman, “Blockchain for Managing Heterogeneous Internet of Things: A Perspective Architecture.”, IEEE Network 34(1): 16-23 (2020).

  • Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Yaser Jararweh, “Low-latency vehicular edge: A vehicular infrastructure model for 5G.”, Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 98 (2020)

  • Moayad Aloqaily, Safa Otoum, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi. "An Intrusion Detection System for Connected Vehicles in Smart Cities", Ad Hoc Networks,2019, ISSN 1570-8705.

  • Otoum, Safa, Burak Kantarci, and Hussein T. Mouftah. "On the Feasibility of Deep Learning in Sensor Network Intrusion Detection", IEEE Networking Letters 1 (2), 68-71.

  • Start-up Grant, Zayed University, 2020/7 – Now.

  • Research Incentive Fund (RIF), Zayed University, 2020/12-Now.

  • Short Term Grant (STG), Zayed University, 2020/5 – 2020/9.

  • NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Scholarship (CGS D), 2017/9 – 2019/4.

  • NSERC Doctoral Scholarship – PGS2, 2017/5 to 2017/8.

  • University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, 2017/5-2019/4.

  • FRQNT Doctoral (B2X) scholarships (Declined), 2017/5 to 2019/4.

  • Onatrio Graduate Scholarship (OGS), (Declined), 2017/5 to 2018/4.

  • Information Security SEC 605