Zeeshan Pervez
Professor, University of Wolverhampton, UK
BIOGRAPHY
Prof Zeeshan Pervez is Director of Centre for Cyber Resilience and Artificial Intelligence (CYBRAI), and Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Wolverhampton. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, Distinguished Research Fellow at National CERT – Pakistan, and a Full Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (UK).
He has a strong track record of successfully completing research, industry, and capacity-building projects funded by Innovate UK, the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Innovation Centres, the European Commission, Erasmus+, Microsoft Research, and international research institutes. He has over 18 years of research and industry experience in addressing technological and societal challenges and in designing and developing enterprise-ready solutions.
His areas of expertise include Cybersecurity, Applied ML/AI, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, and Data Analytics. The application areas of his research include, but are not limited to, Cyber Resilience, Digital Twins, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Predictive Maintenance, Facilities Management, and Healthcare.
He is regularly invited by national and international research and academic institutes to deliver talks on topics ranging from Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastructure, AI-driven Cybersecurity, and Digital Twin-enabled City Planning to name a few.
He has successfully supervised to completion 29 postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate research/taught and undergraduate students (as lead and co-supervisor). He has served as a TPC member of over 100 conferences and as a regular reviewer for more than 30 IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, and Springer journals. He has chaired or evaluated over 40 doctoral exams for UK and international higher education institutes.
He is serving as an external examiner to several UK higher education institutes for their computing programme boards – postgraduate, undergraduate, and international provisions. He has led the development, validation, and delivery of postgraduate programmes, namely MSc Information & Network Security and MSc Advanced Computing (Big Data and IoT).
Professor Levent Altinay will share his experience of successful funding applications to the prestigious funding bodies including EU, Horizon, ESRC (Economic Social Research Council), Newton, British Academy, British Council and TUBITAK. During the workshop, Altinay will cover a wide range of topics including creative idea generation for research funding, formation of multidisciplinary research consortiums, use of networks, research design, dissemination of research findings and the generation of academically robust, practically meaningful research impact.