Dr Abdul Rauf
Dr Abdul Rauf
PhD APPROVED SUPERVISOR

Dr Abdul Rauf

Faculty of Information Technology Department of Computer Sciences Information Technology

Research profile, academic standing, and publication record for postgraduate supervision at The University of Faisalabad.

Profile
Name
Dr Abdul Rauf
CNIC No.
37405-0327753-3
Official Contact
PCD No.
6294
TOTAL PhD SCHOLARS SUPERVISED
5
Scopus / WoS Publications
22
Total Citations
381
Academic Information
PhD DEGREE
Information Technology
Postdoctoral Training
N/A
Field of Interest
  • • Research areas include network security cybersecurity
  • • Applied Cryptography and End-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in Network Communication
  • • Cloud Security and next-generation enterprise security (IoT)
  • • Edge Computing etc
Books / Chapters / Manuals Published
  • Year 2025
    "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity" Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Next Generation Cybersecurity: Concepts, Challenges and Applications
  • Year 2025
    "Zero Trust Architecture and AI-Driven IDS: A Machine Learning Framework for Secure Cloud Storage and Data Integrity" Madani SA (ed) Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) Islamabad: IEEE | https://doi:10.1109/FIT67061.2025.11333626
Significant Research Publications
  • Year 2025
    "Integrating large language models and AI into blockchain: a framework for intelligent smart contracts and fraud detection". IEEE Access | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3622511
  • Year 2025
    "A Privacy-preserving System for Skin Disease Diagnosis Using A Lightweight CNN and Tensor Flow.js for Client-side Inference". Advance Social Science Archive Journal | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17656620
  • Year 2025
    "VIT2D: A Multimodal Vision Transformer Framework for Non-invasive Prediction of Arterial Heart Disease". Spectrum of Engineering Sciences | https://zenodo.org/records/17539342
  • Year 2025
    "A Transforming Visual Analysis Approach for the Recognition of Colletotrichum Falcatum Leading to Red Rot on Sugarcane". Annual Methodological Archive Research Review (AMARR) | https://doi.org/10.63075/pacxkk36
  • Year 2022
    "Exploiting blockchain and RMCV based malicious node detection in ETD-LEACH for wireless sensor networks." Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing | https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7281872
  • Year 2020
    "Randomized substitution method for effectively secure block ciphers in I.O.T environment." Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-04919-3
  • Year 2020
    "An ASCII based effective and multioperation image encryption method". Multimedia Tools and Applications | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-088974
  • Year 2019
    "An Energy-efficient Task Scheduling Using BAT Algorithm for Cloud Computing". Journal of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences | https://doi.org/10.26782/jmcms.2019.08.00050
  • Year 2019
    "Big Data Analytics for a Novel Electrical Load Forecasting Technique". International Journal on Information Technologies & Security
Research Projects (Completed / Running)
  • Books/Book Chapters/Monographs/Manuals Published 1. Rauf A
  • Hussain M and Arshad Malik MS et al. (2025) Deep reinforcement learning for cybersecurity. In: Ullah F
  • Srivastava G
  • Ahmad A (eds) Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Next Generation Cybersecurity: Concepts
  • Challenges and Applications. London: The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  • 111-142. https://doi.org/10.1049/PBSE027E_ch6. 2. Manzoor H
  • Ashraf MW
  • Saeed M et al. (2025) ZAID: Zero Trust Architecture and AI-Driven IDS: a machine learning framework for secure cloud storage and data integrity. In: Madani SA (ed) Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) Islamabad: IEEE
  • 1-6. https://doi:10.1109/FIT67061.2025.11333626. Significant Research Publications 1. Ahmed RH
  • Sultana J
  • Zahid S et al. 2025) Integrating large language models and AI into blockchain: a framework for intelligent smart contracts and fraud detection. IEEE Access 13: 181323-181335. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3622511. 2. Javaid N
  • Sajid M
  • Najam M et al. (2022) Exploiting blockchain and RMCV based malicious node detection in ETD-LEACH for wireless sensor networks. Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing 2022: 7281872. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7281872. 3. Shoukat IA
  • Iqbal U
  • Rauf A et al. (2020) Randomized substitution method for effectively secure block ciphers in I.O.T environment. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 45: 11019–11036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-020-04919-3. 4. Naz F
  • Shoukat IA
  • Ashraf R et al. (2020) An ASCII based effective and multioperation image encryption method. Multimedia Tools and Applications 79: 22107–22129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-088974. 5. Ali U
  • Rauf A
  • Saeed U et al. (2025) A privacy-preserving system for skin disease diagnosis using a lightweight CNN and tensor flow.js for client-side inference. Advance Social Science Archive Journal 4(02): 1785–1797. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17656620. 6. Ullah A
  • Iqbal U and Shoukat IA (2019) An energy-efficient task scheduling using BAT algorithm for cloud computing. Journal of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences 14(4): 613-627. https://doi.org/10.26782/jmcms.2019.08.00050. 7. Ali U
  • Rauf A
  • Iqbal U et al. (2019) Big data analytics for a novel electrical load forecasting technique. International Journal on Information Technologies & Security 11: 33. 8. Umm-e-Farwa
  • Rauf A
  • Ahmed U et al. (2025) VIT2D: a multimodal vision transformer framework for non-invasive prediction of arterial heart disease. Spectrum of Engineering Sciences 3(11): 124-141. https://zenodo.org/records/17539342. 9. Ahmed U
  • Rauf A
  • Hussain M et al. (2025) A transforming visual analysis approach for the recognition of Colletotrichum falcatum leading to red rot on sugarcane. Annual Methodological Archive Research Review (AMARR) 3(11): 1430–1448. https://doi.org/10.63075/pacxkk36.