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Nauman Aslam is Professor of Network Systems and Security in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, UK. Before joining Northumbria University as a Senior Lecturer in 2011, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He received his PhD in Engineering Mathematics from Dalhousie University, Canada in 2008. Professor Aslam is leading the Cyber Security and Network Systems (CyberNets) research group at Northumbria University. His research interests cover diverse but interconnected areas related to communication networks. His current research efforts are focused at addressing problems related to wireless body area networks and IoT, network security, QoS-aware communication in industrial wireless sensor networks and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in communication networks. He has led an Erasmus Mundus Action-2 project titled Sustainable Green Economies through Learning, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge Exchange (gLINK), which is funded by the European Union (worth 3.03 million Euros). He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference. Professor Aslam is a member of IEEE.
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- Decentralized Energy Management of Power- and Hydrogen-Based Microgrids in Wholesale Electricity Market as Price-Maker, Mansour Saatloo, A., Mehrabidavoodabadi, A., Aslam, N., Marzband, M. 1 Mar 2026, In: Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
- Generative Adversarial Networks for Intrusion Detection Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of Applications, Challenges, and Research Directions, Alauthman, M., Aslam, N., Al-Qerem, A., Aldweesh, A., Sureephong, P. 6 Feb 2026, In: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
- On the Integration of Multi-Agent and RIS-Assisted Networks in Smart Environments, Andreou, A., Mavromoustakis, C., Aslam, N., Markakis, E., Mastorakis, G. 4 Feb 2026
- Stein-type Estimator Assisted by Dynamics, Hu, S., Aslam, N. 20 Apr 2026, KDD '26: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1, New York, US, ACM
- An enhanced BiGAN architecture for network intrusion detection, Arafah, M., Phillips, I., Adnane, A., Alauthman, M., Aslam, N. 8 Apr 2025, In: Knowledge-Based Systems
- A Trustworthy and Untraceable Centralised Payment Protocol for Mobile Payment, Neera, J., Chen, X., Aslam, N., Issac, B. 31 May 2025, In: ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
- Bridge to Real Environment with Hardware-in-the-loop for Wireless Artificial Intelligence Paradigms, Redondo Sarmiento, J., Aslam, N., Zhang, J., Yuan, Z., Jimenez, D. 12 Aug 2025, Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
- Detection of AI generated images using combined uncertainty measures and particle swarm optimised rejection mechanism, Yumlembam, R., Issac, B., Aslam, N., Kollonoor Babu, E., Collyer, J., Kennedy, F. 17 Dec 2025, In: Scientific Reports
- Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Vehicles Using Transformer Models, Alauthman, M., Mashaleh, A., Aslam, N., Aldweesh, A., Almomani, A. 28 Apr 2025, 2025 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence Approaches and Applications (ICCIAA), Piscataway, US, IEEE
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- COVER - Cooperative and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for emergency response applications, Chen, X. (Principal Investigator), Aslam, N. (Co Investigator), European Commission, 01/07/23 - 30/06/27, £63,601.00
- EVOLVE - Electric vehicles point location optimisation via vehicular communications, Aslam, N. (Principal Investigator), European Commission, 01/01/23 - 31/12/25, £79,286.00
- Engineering Mathematics PhD June 30 2008
- Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2014
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