Dr Sarfraz Brohi

Qualifications:

PhD, FHEA, PGCTL, MSc, BSCS

Position:

Senior Lecturer - Cyber Security

Department:

FET - Computer Science and Creative Technologies

Telephone:

+441173281901

Email:

Sarfraz.Brohi@uwe.ac.uk

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About me

Dr Sarfraz Brohi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at UWE Bristol and a Fellow of Advance HE, with more than a decade of teaching and seven years of academic leadership experience. His leadership is measured by the standard that matters most at programme level: what students say about the degree once it is over. As Programme Leader of MSc IT, he led the programme to 100% overall student satisfaction in the Advance HE Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey in 2025, and again in 2026.

He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning and works on assessment design, curriculum development and the balance of formative and summative assessment across programmes. His earlier academic leadership includes Coordinator of Teaching and Learning and Programme Director roles at Taylor's University, Malaysia, with responsibility for programme validation, staff recruitment and academic quality.

His research keeps his teaching current. It follows one question across a decade and a half of changing technology: how do you secure something while it is still being invented? He has pursued it through cloud storage, connected devices, autonomous drones, and now AI systems that act without being asked. His work on adversarial and explainable AI centres on healthcare, including brain tumour and breast cancer detection, where the problem is not only whether a model is accurate but whether a clinician can see why it decided what it did. More recently, he has turned to large language models and agentic AI, contributing one of the earliest comprehensive reviews of that research landscape, and to how agentic AI is being adopted and governed in higher education itself.

He has published 65+ peer-reviewed papers with 3000+ citations, secured over £200,000 in research funding from bodies including the British Council, and completed over 100 peer reviews for journals including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Computers and Security, and Journal of Information Security and Applications. He is a guest editor for special issues, most recently for Algorithms on secure and explainable AI.

Dr Brohi has supervised and examined PhD research on IoT, UAVs, digital twins, blockchain variants and software fuzzing, and has supervised more than 50 Master's projects. He welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers working on the security of agentic AI systems, adversarial robustness in large language models, homomorphic encryption for UAV communications, or explainable AI in safety-critical settings. He also welcomes enquiries about external examiner appointments in Computing, Cyber Security and AI, research collaboration, and invited talks on AI in higher education.

His awards include the 2025 UWE Bristol Staff Award in the Valuing People category, the Best Paper Award at ICTIDS in 2019, the Outstanding Student Award for his MSc in Software Engineering at Staffordshire University in 2010, and an International Doctoral Fellowship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2011).

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