Shafiq Ahmed

About

I am Shafiq Ahmed, a cybersecurity researcher. I passed my PhD viva in Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex in October 2026, and the final award is expected in December 2026. My research focuses on AI-based secure authentication protocols for demand response power management in the Vehicle to Intelligent Grid paradigm. I hold an MS in Computer Science and a Master of Computer Science from COMSATS University Islamabad, and a BSc from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. My research interests include network security, privacy protection, cybersecurity, authentication, data analysis, and software engineering.

I have developed an anonymous key-agreement protocol for V2G environments within the Social Internet of Vehicles and contributed to secure, privacy-preserving frameworks. My work is published in top-tier journals such as IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. I look forward to connecting with researchers and professionals to share insights and explore collaborative opportunities in this dynamic field.

Employment

• University of Essex PhD Researcher
  2023 - 2026
• Bahria University Lecturer
  2020 - 2023
• COMSATS University Islamabad Research Assistant (part time)
  2019 - 2021
• COMSATS University Islamabad Teaching Assistant and Junior Lecturer
  2018 - 2020

Education

• University of Essex PhD
  2023 - 2026
• COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus Master of Computer Science (MCS)
  2015 - 2017
• Bahauddin Zakariya University Bachelor of Science (BSc)
  2013 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (18)

• Privacy preserving federated fine tuning of large language models for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles command generation
  Shafiq Ahmed, Mohammad Hossein Anisi, Ayesha Iqbal +3 more
  Computers and Electrical Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2026.111373
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• Quantum safe drone security: Authenticated key exchange and privacy preserving intrusion detection for low altitude intelligent transportation systems
  Computers and Electrical Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2026.111429
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• AI-Enhanced Zero-Knowledge Authentication for High-Mobility IoT Using Predictive Token Learning
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2026 DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3644599
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• Always On Trust for Remote Cardiac Monitoring: Quantum Safe Authentication With One Time PUFs and Edge Anomaly Screening
  Shafiq Ahmed, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Khalid Mahmood +3 more
  IEEE Internet of Things Magazine 2026 DOI: 10.1109/MIOT.2026.3690416
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• A Post-Quantum Secure Federated Learning Framework for Cross-Domain V2G Authentication
  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2025.3580338
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• AIDAS: AI-Enhanced Intrusion Detection and Authentication for Autonomous Vehicles
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3562919
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• Distributed Trust Authentication via TPM-Bound Credentials and Byzantine Consensus for Secure Vehicular Digital Twin Ecosystems
  IEEE Global Communications Conference 2025 DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432286
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• Q-BLAISE: Quantum-Resilient Blockchain and AI-Enhanced Security Protocol for Smart Grid IoT
  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2025.3570969
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• Trust-Aware Reinforcement Selection for Robust Federated Learning under Adaptive Adversaries
  International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics 2025 DOI: 10.1109/CCCI65983.2025.11215089
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• Optimizing V2G Dynamics: An AI-Enhanced Secure Protocol for Energy Management in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TICPS.2024.3432851
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• Provable Secure Identity-Based Anonymous and Privacy-Preserving Inter-Vehicular Authentication Protocol for VANETS Using PUF
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3118892
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• Signcryption Based Authenticated and Key Exchange Protocol for EI-Based V2G Environment
  Shafiq Ahmed, Salman Shamshad, Zahid Ghaffar +4 more
  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2021.3102156
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• Security Analysis on “A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems”
  IEEE Systems Journal 2021 DOI: 10.1109/jsyst.2021.3073537
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• Provably secure biometric-based client–server secure communication over unreliable networks
  Journal of Information Security and Applications 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.jisa.2021.102769
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• PUF enable lightweight key-exchange and mutual authentication protocol for multi-server based D2D communication
  Khalid Mahmood, Salman Shamshad, Minahil Rana

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  • Akasha Shafiq
  • Shafiq Ahmed
  • Muhammad Arslan Akram
  • Ruhul Amin
  Journal of Information Security and Applications 2021 DOI: 10.1016/J.JISA.2021.102900
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• An enhanced authentication protocol for client server environment
  Muhammad Asad Saleem, Shafiq Ahmed, Khalid Mahmood +2 more
  Frontiers of Computer Science 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11704-019-9186-x
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• An Improved Authentication Scheme for Remote Data Access and Sharing Over Cloud Storage in Cyber-Physical-Social-Systems
  IEEE Access 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2977264
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• Anonymous Key-Agreement Protocol for V2G Environment Within Social Internet of Vehicles
  Shafiq Ahmed, Saru Kumari, Muhammad Asad Saleem +3 more
  IEEE Access 2020 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3003298
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