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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
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

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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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  • SoftEdgeNet: SDN Based Energy-Efficient Distributed Network Architecture for Edge Computing

    Sharma, P. K., Rathore, S., Jeong, Y. S., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 104-111
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blockchain based hybrid network architecture for the smart city

    Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 86, pp. 650-655
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Li-Fi based on security cloud framework for future IT environment

    Sharma, P. K., Ryu, J. H., Park, K. Y., Park, J. H., Park, J. H.
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, vol. 8, 23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • DistArch-SCNet: Blockchain-Based Distributed Architecture with Li-Fi Communication for a Scalable Smart City Network

    Sharma, P. K., Rathore, S., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 7, pp. 55-64
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
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  • EH-HL: Effective communication model by integrated EH-WSN and hybrid LiFi/WiFi for IoT

    Sharma, P. K., Jeong, Y. S., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1719-1726
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
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  • OpCloudSec: Open cloud software defined wireless network security for the Internet of Things

    Sharma, P. K., Singh, S., Park, J. H.
    Computer Communications, vol. 122, pp. 1-8
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Software Defined Fog Node Based Distributed Blockchain Cloud Architecture for IoT

    Sharma, P. K., Chen, M. Y., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 115-124
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • DSS-SL: Dynamic signage system based on SDN with LiFi communication for smart buildings

    Sharma, P. K., Kwon, B. W., Park, J. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Social network security: Issues, challenges, threats, and solutions

    Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Loia, V., Jeong, Y. S., Park, J. H.
    Information Sciences, vol. 421, pp. 43-69
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Hesitant Fuzzy Based Security Approach for Fog and Mobile-Edge Computing

    Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Sangaiah, A. K., Park, J. J.
    IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 688-701
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • DistBlockNet: A Distributed Blockchains-Based Secure SDN Architecture for IoT Networks

    Sharma, P. K., Singh, S., Jeong, Y. S., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 78-85
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • XSSClassifier: An efficient XSS attack detection approach based on machine learning classifier on SNSs

    Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1014-1028
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Advanced lightweight encryption algorithms for IoT devices: survey, challenges and solutions

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Moon, S. Y., Park, J. H.
    Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, pp. 1-18
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Block-VN: A distributed blockchain based vehicular network architecture in smart city

    Sharma, P. K., Moon, S. Y., Park, J. H.
    Journal of Information Processing Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 184-195
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A security model for protecting virtualization in cloud computing

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Solving standard cell placement problem using discrete firefly algorithm: A nature inspired approach

    Sharma, P. K., Singh, S., Park, J. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • DFA-AD: a distributed framework architecture for the detection of advanced persistent threats

    Sharma, P. K., Moon, S. Y., Moon, D., Park, J. H.
    Cluster Computing, vol. 20, pp. 597-609
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • EH-GC: An efficient and secure architecture of energy harvesting green cloud infrastructure

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Moon, S. Y., Park, J. H.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 4, 673
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • i-shss: An IoT based smart home security system

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Moon, S. Y., Park, J. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Novel assessment method for accessing private data in social network security services

    Park, J. H., Sung, Y., Sharma, P. K., Jeong, Y. S., Yi, G.
    Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 3307-3325
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • On solving partition driven standard cell placement problem using firefly-based metaheuristic approach

    Kaur, M., Sharma, P. K.
    International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 121-127
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SH-SecNet: An enhanced secure network architecture for the diagnosis of security threats in a smart home

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 4, 513
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
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  • FS-OpenSecurity: A taxonomic modeling of security threats in SDN for future sustainable computing

    Sung, Y., Sharma, P. K., Lopez, E. M., Park, J. H.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 8, no. 9, 919
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Secure clouds forensic investigative architecture for social network cloud

    Singh, S., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Advanced Science Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2461-2464
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A discrete firefly algorithm for VLSI circuit partitioning

    Sharma, P. K., Kaur, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
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