Essam Ghadafi

About

I am a senior lecturer in Cyber Security at Newcastle University as of the 1st of September 2022. I am the director of the MSc in Cyber Security and a member of the PhD progression panel. Prior to joining Newcastle University, I was a senior lecturer at UWE Bristol. Prior to that, I worked with Prof Jens Groth as a research associate in the Information Security Group at University College London from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, I was at the Computer Science Department at the University of Bristol between 2011 and 2015 as a post-doctoral researcher in the Cryptography Group and then as a teaching associate. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol working on Cryptography & Information Security in 2012.

Education

• PhD Computer Science, University of Bristol, 2012
• Master's (with Distinction), University of Bristol, 2007

Selected publications

• Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for IoT–Edge–Cloud
• A Survey on Emerging Blockchain Technology Platforms for Securing the Internet of Things
• Defending against adversarial machine learning attacks using hierarchical learning: A case study on network traffic attack classification
• Leveraging Patient Information Sharing Using Blockchain-Based Distributed Networks
• Functionality-Preserving Adversarial Machine Learning for Robust Classification in Cybersecurity and Intrusion Detection Domains: A Survey
• Adventures of a Light Blockchain Protocol in a Forest of Transactions: A Subset of a Story
• Foundations of Fully Dynamic Group Signatures
• Anonymous attestation with user-controlled linkability
• Partially Structure-Preserving Signatures: Lower Bounds, Constructions and More
• Feature Vulnerability and Robustness Assessment against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks