Muhammad Alam

Muhammad Alam is a Senior Lecturer in Smart Cities and Secure Systems (IoT) at London South Bank University, UK. He previously served as Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2017) and Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal (2009-2017). His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Aveiro (2009-14).

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Aveiro, Portugal (2014)

His research spans Intelligent Transportation Systems, IoT security, vehicular networks, and blockchain applications in smart city infrastructure. Key areas include real-time wireless communication protocols, context-aware systems, and emotion recognition algorithms with multimodal AI.

Recent publications highlight blockchain consensus algorithms for IoT scalability, zero-knowledge proof authentication schemes, and multimodal emotion recognition systems using graph attention networks. His work also extends to smart agriculture solutions for plant disease detection via deep learning.

Scientific Awards:
• IEEE Senior Member
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

He has contributed to EU FP7 projects (Hurricane, C2POWER, ICSI, PEACE), Portuguese government-funded SmartVision, and served as technical project manager and workpackage leader in cross-institutional collaborations.