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Muhammad Khurram Khan is a global thought leader and influencer in cybersecurity. He is a Professor of Cybersecurity at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founding members of CoEIA and has served as Manager R&D from March 2009 until March 2012. He, along with his team, developed and successfully managed the cybersecurity research program at CoEIA, which turned it into one of the best centers of excellence in the region. He is the founder and CEO of the "Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research", an independent and non-partisan cybersecurity think-tank in Washington, D.C., USA. He has contributed to cyber policy work for the G20 (Saudi and Italian Presidencies) in shaping a safer cyberspace for children, protecting the masses and vulnerable populations in cyberspace, and empowering and enabling women in the cybersecurity profession. In 2019, he played an instrumental role as a cybersecurity subject expert for a USD 6 million series B investment in a South Korean startup, "SecuLetter," which has received a corporate valuation of over USD 40 million (2020) with an IPO valuation of USD 100 million (2023). He is the Editor-in-Chief of a well-reputed international journal ‘Telecommunication Systems', published by Springer-Nature for over 28 years, with a recent impact factor of 2.3 (JCR 2024). Furthermore, he is the area editor (Cybersecurity) of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, which has a 34.4 impact factor. Moreover, he has been on the editorial board of several journals, including, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Journal of Network & Computer Applications, IEEE Access, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Connection Science, Big Data Mining & Analytics, Electronic Commerce Research, and IEEE Communications Letters, etc. He has also played the role of guest editor of several international journals published by IEEE, Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, and Wiley. Besides, he is one of the organizing chairs of more than 5 dozen international conferences and a member of technical committees of more than 10 dozen international conferences. He serves as a referee for research foundations of Switzerland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and the Czech Republic.
Prof. Khurram is an honorary professor at IIIRC, Shenzhen Graduate School, China. He is also an adjunct professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia and Fujian University of Technology, China. He has secured an outstanding leadership award at the IEEE international conference on Networks and Systems Security 2009, Australia. He has been included in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2010 edition. In addition, at the AIT international Conference in Japan in June 2010, he received a certificate of appreciation for outstanding contributions in "Biometrics & Information Security Research". He has been awarded a Gold Medal for the ‘Best Invention & Innovation Award’ at the 10th Malaysian Technology Expo 2011, Malaysia. Moreover, in April 2013, his invention got a Bronze Medal at the "41st International Exhibition of Inventions" in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he was awarded the best paper awards from the Journal of Network & Computer Applications (Elsevier), Vehicular Communications (Elsevier), and IEEE Systems Journal. He was the recipient of the King Saud University Award for Scientific Excellence (Research Productivity) in May 2015. He was also a recipient of the King Saud University Award for Scientific Excellence (Inventions, Innovations, and Technology Licensing) in May 2016. He has published over 500 research papers and is an inventor of 10 US/PCT patents. He has edited 9 books/proceedings published by Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis, and IEEE. He has secured several national and international competitive research grants with an amount of over USD 5 million in the domain of cybersecurity. He has played a leading role in developing the "BS Cybersecurity Degree Program" and the "Higher Diploma in Cybersecurity" at King Saud University.
His research areas of interest are cybersecurity, smart mobility security, automotive cybersecurity, AI for cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT) security, digital authentication, cyber policy, and technological innovation management. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK), a fellow of the British Computer Society (UK), a fellow of the FTRA (Korea), a senior member of the IEEE (USA), and a senior member of the IACSIT (Singapore). He is also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Saudi Chapter. He has been a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE (CTSoC) from 2019–2021. He has been a chair of the task group (TG) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
