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Dr Pradip Sharma

Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
pradip.sharma@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
228 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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School/Department
School of Natural and Computing Sciences




Biography

Dr. Pradip Sharma, SMIEEE, SFHEA, is a globally recognised academic and researcher in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. As Associate Professor of Cybersecurity & AI at the 51cg, UK, he leads pioneering research and educates the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Holding a PhD in Cybersecurity and an M.Tech in Computer Science, Dr. Sharma brings a unique blend of academic excellence and industry experience, having previously served as a Research Fellow and Software Engineer. A Senior Member of IEEE and Senior Fellow of Advance HE, Dr. Sharma is a thought leader in the global research community. Dr. Sharma serves as an editor for leading journals and is a regular keynote speaker and program chair at international conferences. His educational leadership includes spearheading innovative cybersecurity curricula and supervising a diverse cohort of doctoral researchers. With a portfolio exceeding £1M in funded research from EPSRC, Innovate UK, and international agencies, his work fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and drives impactful solutions to global security challenges.

External Memberships

Senior Fellowship Advance HE (SFHEA)

IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE)

Latest Publications

  • Decentralised and Dynamic Reputation Management Model For Smart Mobility Using A Smart Contract

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P.
    Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Exploiting CKKS-based Homomorphic Encryption in Federated Learning: A Hybrid Attack under Adverse Deployment Conditions

    Boar, P. E., Sharma, P., Akram, R. N., Li, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Complying with the Right to Be Forgotten in Smart Mobility Data Sharing: A Delete-Only Redactable Consortium Blockchain

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Mariappan, V., Hong, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Spatial-Temporal Graph Ordinary Differential Equations Network

    He, S., Guo, Q., Feng, K., Liang, D., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 3723-3737
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

    Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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Research

Research Overview

Research interests: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Edge Computing, Software-defined Networking, IoT Security

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Computing Science

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Computer and Information Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Applied Computing
  • Cybernetics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Funding and Grants

2026-2029    “LATTICE: Lateral Adaptive Threat Triaging And Intelligence Collaborative Ecosystems,” Horizon Europe (HORIZON), €5.14M (Co-PL)

2026-2028            “Governing AI In The Final Frontier,” British Academy, £358K (Co-PL)

2025-2026            “Oil & Gas Cyber Benchmarking,” Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, £26K (PL)

2024-2026            “Secure, Privacy-aware, and Trusted Data Share in Smart Mobility,” EPSRC, £200K (PL)

2024-2025            “ZECURE Data Exchange Platform - Net Zero Mobility,” Innovate UK, £236K (PL)

2022-2023            “Secure and Privacy-aware Data Share in Smart Mobility,” Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact, £2K (PL)

2022-2023            “Distributed Big-data Service Framework based on Blockchain and Machine Learning for Smart Cities,” 2022 High-end Foreign Expert in China, £20K (PL)

2020-2022            “Development of Simulator for Virtual Learning,” Agency for Defence Development, £270K (Co-I)

2016-2019            “Developing a Green Smart Home Security Framework for Next Generation IoT Environment,”  National Research Foundation (NRF), £200K (Investigator)

2016-2019            “WellTEC Coaching Service and Content Development for Wellness Life,” Consortium Information Technology Research Center (C-ITRC), £16K (Investigator)

2016-2018            “Development of an immersive and interactive NUI/NUX Platform for Invoked Reality Contents,”  Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), £5K (Investigator)

Teaching

Courses

Publications

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  • Compound Scaling Encoder-Decoder (CoSED) Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Related Bio-marker Detection

    Yi, D., Baltov, P., Hua, Y., Philip, S., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1959 - 1970
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Next-Generation Consumer Electronics Data Auditing Scheme Toward Cloud-Edge Distributed and Resilient Machine Learning

    Li, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Lai, C. F., Sivaraman, A., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2244-2256
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A relay-assisted parallel offloading strategy for multi-source tasks in internet of vehicles

    Cao, D., Zhang, Y. B., Yang, Y. F., Ji, B. F., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol. 62, 103619
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Reservation-Based Multi-Source Distributed Offloading Strategy in Dynamic Environments

    Cao, D., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Zhu, M.
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 1866 - 1876
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Dual-path network combining CNN and transformer for pavement crack segmentation

    Wang, J., Zeng, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Zhang, J., Wang, L.
    Automation in Construction, vol. 158, 105217
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SHT-based public auditing protocol with error tolerance in FDL-empowered IoVs

    Zhu, K., Ren, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Sharma, P. K.
    Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 142-149
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blockchain-Based Sensitive Document Storage to Mitigate Corruptions

    Mahlaba, J., Mishra, A. K., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 71, pp. 12635 - 12647
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Parameter-Efficient Log Anomaly Detection based on Pre-training model and LORA

    He, S., Lei, Y., Zhang, Y., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • An Intelligent Secure Adversarial Examples Detection Scheme in Heterogeneous Complex Environments

    Wang, W., Wang, X., Pan, X., Gong, X., Liang, J., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Said, W.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 3859-3876
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Reliability Analysis of Correlated Competitive and Dependent Components Considering Random Isolation Times

    Cai, S., Luo, T., Yu, F., Sharma, P. K., Wang, W., Yin, L.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 2763-2777
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • A Distributed Deep Learning Approach with Mobile Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT Networks Security

    Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Rathore, H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Homomorphic Encryption-based Privacy-preserving Federated Learning in IoT-enabled Healthcare System

    Zhang, L., Xu, J., Vijayakumar, P., Sharma, P. K., Ghosh, U.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 2864-2880
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SECBlock-IIoT: A Secure Blockchain-enabled Edge Computing Framework for Industrial Internet of Things

    Sanwar Hosen, A. S., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Ra, I. H., Cho, G. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Early Diagnosis of Lung Tumors for Extending Patients’ Life Using Deep Neural Networks

    Manju, A., Kaladevi, R., Hariharan, S., Chen, S. Y., Kukreja, V., Sharma, P. K., Alqahtani, F., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 993-1007
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Fine-Grained Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection in IoT

    He, S., Guo, M., Yang, B., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K., Yan, X.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 5027-5047
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • A Novel Joint Time-Frequency Spectrum Resources Sustainable Risk Prediction Algorithm Based on TFBRL Network for the Electromagnetic Environment

    Li, S., Sun, Y., Han, Y., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 15, no. 6, 4777
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Privacy Protection of Medical Data Based on Multi-Scroll Memristive Hopfield Neural Network

    Yu, F., Shen, H., Yu, Q., Kong, X., Sharma, P. K., Cai, S.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 845-858
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Data storage mechanism of industrial IoT based on LRC sharding blockchain

    Ren, Y., Liu, X., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, S., Wang, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 2746
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Fast Visual Tracking with Squeeze and Excitation Region Proposal Network

    Cao, D., Dai, R., Wang, J., Ji, B., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K., Zhu, M.
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, vol. 13, 7
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Rational Layout of Taxi Stop Based on the Analysis of Spatial Trajectory Data

    Liu, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, J., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, Q., Tang, Y.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 15, no. 4, 3227
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • A Fuzzy-based approach to Enhance Cyber Defence Security for Next-generation IoT

    Makkar, A., Ghosh, U., Sharma, P. K., Javed, A.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2079-2086
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Hybrid Mode of Operation Schemes for P2P Communication to Analyze End-Point Individual Behaviour in IoT

    Mishra, A. K., Singh, O., Kumar, A., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K., Pradhan, B.
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 19, no. 2, 31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • BIIoVT: Blockchain-based Secure Storage Architecture for Intelligent Internet of Vehicular Things

    Singh, S. K., Sharma, P. K., Pan, Y., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 11, pp. 75-82
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
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  • SPTM-EC: A Security and Privacy-Preserving Task Management in Edge Computing for IIoT

    Sanwar Hosen, A. S., Sharma, P. K., Ra, I. H., Cho, G. H.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 6330-6339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SHARIF: Solid Pod-Based Secured Healthcare Information Storage and Exchange Solution in Internet of Things

    Ghayvat, H., Sharma, M., Gope, P., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 5609-5618
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
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