Tarek Gaber

Tarek Gaber serves as Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc in Cyber Security at the University of Salford's School of Science, Engineering & Environment. He earned his PhD in Computer Science with specialization in Information Security from the University of Manchester in 2012, following academic appointments at Suez Canal University (Egypt) and VSB Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic).

His educational credentials include:

• PhD in Computer Science (Information Security), University of Manchester, 2012

Dr. Gaber's research bridges Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, with significant emphasis on secure software engineering and machine learning applications. His work has attracted £600 in research funding from Innovate UK, GCHQ, and UKAEA over the past three years, directly enabling AI-driven cybersecurity tool development as reflected in his extensive publication record.

He actively contributes to academic discourse through leadership roles: serving as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-chair internationally while acting as Lead Guest Editor for SCI-indexed journals including Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Applied Sciences, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. His research funding has specifically supported software tool development in AI and cybersecurity domains, demonstrating strong industry-academia collaboration.