Dr Sarfraz Brohi

Qualifications:

PhD, SFHEA, MSc, PGCTL, 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

I am a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at UWE Bristol, a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) and recognised among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier (2026). My work bridges three interconnected pillars: securing emerging technologies, rethinking higher education in response to technological change, and safeguarding international academic standards. With over 15 years of academic and research experience, including 7 years in academic leadership across the UK and Malaysia, my career combines deep technical expertise in computer science with proven leadership in curriculum innovation, academic quality and staff mentoring.

Education that responds to change

My educational philosophy focuses on the critical relationship between what students learn, how they demonstrate understanding and how effectively they apply knowledge in an evolving professional landscape. I bring real-world technical insight into decisions surrounding curriculum design, pedagogy and authentic assessment. I previously served as Programme Leader for the MSc Information Technology at UWE Bristol, directing the programme to achieve a 100% overall student satisfaction rating in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) in 2025 and 2026. My leadership experience also includes roles as Coordinator of Teaching and Learning and Programme Director at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, where I led programme validations, quality assurance and faculty development.

My research in education focuses on how universities respond to transformative technologies. Moving from educational data mining into AI pedagogy, my current scholarship investigates educators’ perceptions of agentic AI, institutional adoption readiness, governance challenges and maintaining assessment integrity. I provide advisory and consultancy services spanning curriculum design and programme development in Computing and AI, AI governance and policy, innovative assessment in the era of generative and agentic AI and academic staff development.

Securing technologies as they evolve

My technical research addresses a core question: How do we make intelligent systems secure, resilient and trustworthy when faced with adversarial behaviour or sensitive environments? My research journey began in privacy-preserving cloud storage and IoT security, expanding into unmanned aerial vehicle defence and artificial intelligence security. My current research encompasses AI and LLM security, embedding-based detection of indirect prompt injection attacks, adversarial perturbation risks in healthcare models and Explainable AI. Furthermore, I work on agentic AI governance, secure UAV communications involving interoperability between MAVLink and STANAG 4586 protocols and trustworthy AI in healthcare diagnostics, including brain tumour and breast cancer classification.

To date, my research has generated over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers attracting more than 3,000 citations. I have secured and contributed to funded projects totalling over £200,000 with support from the British Council, the Ministry of Education Malaysia and institutional grants. Key funded projects include Smart and Sustainable Cities: Connecting Bristol with Kuala Lumpur, air-pollution analytics and health modelling and big-data cloud architectures for educational analytics.

Standards, scholarship & academic governance

I actively contribute to the international oversight and quality assurance of higher education, bringing over 9 years of external examining experience to help safeguard academic benchmarks globally. My current appointments include serving as an External Examiner for the University of Gloucestershire, the University of Technology Bahrain, and Lancaster University, covering provision delivered with Deakin Lancaster Indonesia. Additionally, I serve as a Quality Assurance Moderator for UWE Bristol international partner provision at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute in Latvia and Villa College in the Maldives.

Alongside governance, I have supervised over 50 Master's dissertations and supervised or examined doctoral theses across IoT, UAVs, digital twins, blockchain variants, homomorphic encryption and software fuzzing. My scholarly service includes completing over 100 peer reviews for leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Computers and Security, and Expert Systems with Applications, alongside serving as a journal guest editor and conference technical committee member.

Recognition & honours

My career contributions have been recognised through several key distinctions. In 2026, I was included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list by Stanford University and Elsevier and recognised as a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. I received the UWE Bristol Staff Award in the Valuing People category in 2025 and the Best Paper Award at ICTIDS in 2019. Earlier academic milestones include receiving an International Doctoral Fellowship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2011 and the Outstanding Student Award for my MSc in Software Engineering from Staffordshire University in 2010.

Collaborating with me

I welcome enquiries from academic researchers, university leaders, industry partners and prospective students. I am open to research collaborations in agentic AI security, adversarial robustness, LLM prompt injection defence, UAV communication security and Explainable AI. I also welcome academic appointments, including External Examiner roles, curriculum review, keynote speaking and institutional advisory on AI in education. Finally, I warmly welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in pursuing research in agentic AI security, adversarial machine learning, homomorphic encryption for UAVs and explainable AI in safety-critical settings.

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