Dr Mohammad A. Razzaque (Raz) is an Associate Professor (Research & Innovation) in the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, at Teesside University. Before joining Teesside University, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (2014-2017) and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Computing, University Technology Malaysia (2011-2014).

He is an expert in cybersecurity, secure AI, generative AI and end-to-end (sensors-to-cloud) IoT solutions, and his research and development are centred on cybersecurity, secure AI and IoT. He has successfully published over 75 peer-reviewed research works (with an h-index of 30 & citations over 4k), including many Q1 journal papers (e.g., IEEE Sensors, IEEE IoT, Nature Scientific Reports) and a book in these areas. He is active in funding applications and has secured over £1M (approximately) worth of funding as the PI or a Co-I. 

Currently, he is working on secure machine learning, especially cybersecurity of generative AI and generative AI for cybersecurity, collaborating sensing for unmanned vehicles, and applications of generative AI (e.g., chatGPT, GPT). Besides, he is supervising/co-supervising nine PhD students at Teesside University. 

He holds a PhD in distributed systems (i.e., Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Adhoc Networks) from the School of Computer Science and Informatics, U.C.D., Dublin (2008). He also holds an M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

My current research covers three related areas: Generative AI, Cybersecurity and Privacy, and IoT.

• Generative AI (GAI): secure and efficient applications of GAI (e.g., LLMs-GPT/Falcon) for business.
• Cybersecurity and Privacy: secure machine learning and sensing for unmanned vehicles (e.g., drones, driverless cars), deep-fake detection.
• IoT: Integration of IoT with digital twins, serious games and AR/VR.

I have PhD opportunities (self-funded) in the following areas:

• Cybersecurity of generative AI or generative AI for cybersecurity
• Secure machine learning and sensing for unmanned vehicles (e.g., drones, driverless cars),
•  Deep-fake detection, including in digital forensics, and
• Integration of IoT with digital twins, serious games and AR/VR.

Editor: Int. Journal of Dis. Sensor Networks & IoT Journal (MDPI)

Guest/keynote Speaker (recent): Innovate UK workshop on " ChatGPT, Generative AI and Large Language Models Workshop: Supporting UK businesses to benefit from the AI revolution.", Title: " LLMs/Generative AI: Cyber Security Friend or Foe"

Media Presence: Featured in the latest edition (August 2023) of Internal Auditor Magazine, the official publication of The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. in the USA, the global body of this profession.  

Membership: Fellow (HE, U.K.), A.C.M., IEEE (senior member), IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, IEEE Internet of Things Community, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology, IEEE Sustainable I.C.T. Community, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, IEEE Cloud Computing Community, and IEEE Life Sciences Community.

Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE IoT, Computer Communications, Ad Hoc Networks, International Journal of Communication Systems, Sensors, I.E.E. Sensors, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, etc.

Track Chair: IoT and Bigdata, ICAICT 2020

Program Committee Member: IAIT2021, IAIT2020, IAIT2019, IEEE Smart Cities Conference 2015, ICCVIA' 2014, CCA-2014, TCGC -2014, VisionNet-2014, SOMET2014, RFID-TA 2013, IEEE TENCON 2012, ICAC 2008, etc.

• Science Foundation Ireland (S.F.I.) scholarship for PhD in Computer Science, U.C.D., Dublin. 
• Research Assistantship awarded by Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia 
• First-class third position in B. Sc., Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering (formerly known as Applied Physics & Electronics), Dhaka University. 
• First-class second position in M. Sc., Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering (formerly known as Applied Physics & Electronics), Dhaka University. 
• 17th merit position in Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C.) Exam (Out of over 50,000 candidates)

He works as a consultant in IoT solutions/Industry 4.0 and cybersecurity for northeast England's local industries. He also organises and conducts workshops on ethical hacking, data analysis, and IoT. He has worked with (with the support of Enterprise dept. and Digital City) thirteen different companies, including IntraHealth, Industro solutions, Phusion I.M. Ltd, Darchem -EasterLine, ADLINK Tech., and VirtualArmour Ltd.