Dr Sarfraz Brohi

Dr. Brohi is a distinguished researcher and senior educationist in Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Drones (IoD),  Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud.

Currently a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and PL of MSc IT at UWE, Bristol, he has over a decade of Computer Science and Cybersecurity teaching experience at high-ranked universities. In addition to his academic leadership, he serves as an External Examiner for the University of Gloucestershire and the University of Technology Bahrain, ensuring quality assurance and benchmarking academic programs against international standards. During his previous roles, he held significant responsibilities including Coordinator of T&L, staff recruitment, and overseeing university programme validations.

Dr. Brohi is recognized for his research addressing adversarial risks in AI, particularly in healthcare. His expertise quantifies and mitigates vulnerabilities such as data poisoning, adversarial perturbations and evasion attacks to enhance the robustness and trustworthiness of DL models. Additionally, his IoD research focuses on designing lightweight algorithms to secure drone-to-drone communications in Smart Cities. A testament to his research excellence, Dr Brohi has secured research grants totalling £200,315 from prestigious organizations, including the British Council and the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.

Dr. Brohi has received multiple accolades, including the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Technology Innovation and Data Science (2019) and the Outstanding Student Award for his MSc in Software Engineering at Staffordshire University (2010). His PhD research on Cloud Security was recognized with the International Doctoral Fellowship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2012).

He has supervised and examined PhD research on container security, IoT defences, UAV protocols, digital twins security, blockchain variants, and ML for traffic analysis. His supervision of 51 Master's projects further underscores his dedication to mentoring the next generation of researchers.

He reviews for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and Computers & Security. His participation in outreach activities complements his commitment to advancing technology and education. Supported by collaborations with industry and academia, his work addresses critical challenges in IoT, AI, Cloud, and IoD security, contributing to developing secure and resilient technical solutions.