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 cyber defence and AI security, network and wireless security, distributed ledger technology, 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.
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 the 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 Soongsil University, South Korea. Before this, he worked as a lecturer in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Thapar University, India. At QUB, he is affiliated with Centre for Intelligent Sustainable Computation (CISC) and Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) clusters. Previously, he led the British Computer Society (BCS) Accreditation for QUB and chaired the Computer Science Programme Review Working Group. He also served as the Co-Chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. He is the director of the Innovation-by-design lab and holds the position of Research Reputation & Culture Champion at EEECS. Dr Sharma serves on the Royal Society International Exchanges Committee, and he is the Co-Investigator for the Northern Ireland Advanced Research and Engineering Centre (ARC). He is a senior member of IEEE, a professional member of ACM and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).