Vishal Sharma, PhD, FHEA
Senior Lecturer (~Associate Professor)
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, BT9 5BN
Openings
PhDs and Postdocs: My research group is always looking for excellent PhD students and post-docs focusing on network security, distributed ledger technology, autonomous systems and security with a focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and digital twins.
Make a PhD enquiry on the themes mentioned above or even with your ideas and funding relevant to secure computing or network security.
Short bio
Vishal Sharma is working as a Senior Lecturer (~Associate Professor) in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at the Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Before coming to QUB, he was a Research Fellow in the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore, with Prof. Paweł Szałachowski and Prof. Jianying Zhou, under a project entitled, future-proof blockchain, funded by MoE-Tier 2 grant, Singapore. Before joining SUTD, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor under Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation in the MobiSec Lab. at Soonchunhyang University with research sponsored by ETRI-Korea, NRF-Korea, IITP-Korea, MSIT-Korea, and AFOSR-USA. He was a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Ilsun You in the Information Security Engineering Department at Soonchunhyang University in association with the Soongsil University, South Korea. Before this, he worked as a lecturer in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Thapar University, India. Since 2022, he has been affiliated with Global Innovation Institute as a Fellow, and works with the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) and Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC). He is the director of the Innovation-by-design lab at QUB. He leads the British Computer Society (BCS) Accreditation for QUB and is the Chair of the Computer Science Programme Review Working Group. He is the Co-Investigator for the Northern Ireland Advanced Research and Engineering Centre (ARC). He is a senior member of IEEE and a professional member of ACM.