Summary
Dr. Muhammad Usama received BS and MS degrees in Software Engineering from the Bahria University, Karachi in 2005 and 2009, respectively and a PhD degree from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia in 2018. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cyber Security, Pakistan Navy Engineering College, NUST, Karachi. Before joining NUST, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, FAST-NU University, Karachi and completed his post-doctoral research studies from Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He also held a researcher position at the King Saud University, Riyad, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Muhammad Usama research interests includes Big data security, Cloud computing security, Information security and cryptography and Applied secure computation for machine learning applications. He has around 17 years of experience that spans industry, research and teaching and has published articles in various highly reputed journals and conferences. Dr. Muhammad Usama has taught various courses in the area of computer science and cyber security.
Academic Background
PhD
(Information Security) Universiti Teknologi Petronas
January 01, 2014 - March 14, 2018
Honours and Awards
Publications
An efficient secure data compression technique based on chaos and adaptive Huffman coding
September 01, 2021
Muhammad Usama, Qutaibah M. Malluhi, Nordin Zakaria, Imran Razzak, Waheed Iqbal,
Peer-to-Peer Network Applications - Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 2651-2664
An efficient construction of key-dependent substitution box based on chaotic sine map
December 01, 2019
Muhammad Usama, Osama Rehman, Imran Memon, Safdar Rizvi,
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 1-9
An efficient, secure, and queryable encryption for NoSQL-based databases hosted on untrusted cloud environments
April 01, 2019
Mamdouh Alenezi, Muhammad Usama, Khaled Almustafa, Waheed Iqbal, Muhammad Ali Raza, Tanveer Khan,
International Journal of Information Security and Privacy - Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 14-31
Chaos-based simultaneous compression and encryption for Hadoop
January 01, 2017
Muhammad Usama, Nordin Zakaria,
PLoS ONE - Volume 12, Issue 1, Article Number e0168207
Range GLS-Coding: A Scheme of Simultaneous Data Compression and Encryption
December 31, 2016
Muhammad Usama, Nordin Zakaria,
Journal of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences - Vol:8, No. 4, Pages:273-279
Chaos based secure storage and transmission of digital medical images
April 01, 2014
Fahad bin Muhaya, Muhammad Usama, Fahim Akhter,
Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences - Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 27-33
Framework for secure wireless communication in wireless sensor networks
December 01, 2013
Muhammad Usama, Fahad bin Muhaya,
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - Volume 2013, Article ID 585491, 8 pages
Satellite Image Encryption for C4I System
September 02, 2011
Abdullah Sharaf Alghamdi, Hanif Ullah, Muhammad Usama, Iftikhar Ahmad, Khalid Alnafajan,
International Journal of the Physical Sciences - Vol:6, Issue:17, Pages:4255-4263, Article Number: E4CC61B26745
Chaos-based secure satellite imagery cryptosystem
July 01, 2010
Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Khaled Alghathbar, Changhoon Lee,
Computers and Mathematics with Applications - Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 326-337
Conferences
Secure NoSQL Over Cloud Using Data Decomposition and Queryable Encryption
November 06, 2019 - November 08, 2019
Muhammad Ali Raza, Muhammad Usama, Waheed Iqbal, Faisal Bukhari,
CIntelligent Technologies and Applications: Second International Conference, INTAP
Modified AES using chaotic key generator for satellite imagery encryption
September 16, 2009 - September 19, 2009
Fahad Bin Muhaya, Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Khurram Khan,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Satellite imagery security application (SISA)
September 23, 2008 - September 24, 2008
Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Khurram Khan,
2008 IEEE International Multitopic Conference
AINAN: Collaborative application for protein visualization & analyses
August 06, 2008 - August 08, 2008
Rauf Malick, Muhammad Usama, Athar Abbas, Waheed Iqbal, Kamran Azim,
Proc. 9th ACIS Int. Conf. Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, SNPD 2008 and 2nd Int. Workshop on Advanced Internet Technology and Applications
Classical and chaotic encryption techniques for the security of satellite images
April 23, 2008 - April 24, 2008
Muhammad Usama, Muhammad Khurram Khan,
IEEE- International Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies, ISBAST'08
Assistant Professor
FAST-NU
January 31, 2022 - January 25, 2023
Assistant Professor
DHA-SUFFA University
October 21, 2020 - January 31, 2022
Research Assistant
Qatar University
December 22, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Assistant Professor
Bahria University
August 27, 2018 - October 31, 2019
Graduate Assistant
University Technology Petronas
January 01, 2014 - May 14, 2018
Lecturer
King Saud University
April 16, 2010 - August 13, 2013
Assistant Manager
SUPARCO
July 16, 2007 - February 04, 2010
Software Developer
SigmaFlow
June 01, 2006 - July 15, 2007
Software Developer
East Tech International
January 01, 2006 - June 30, 2006