Abdulaleem Al-Othmani

Dr. Abdulaleem Al-Othmani is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at De Montfort University (DMU), serving as Programme Manager for APU/DMU dual award computing programmes. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and has held academic roles at University Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) and Asia Pacific University (APU) in Malaysia. His research focuses on cybersecurity, including steganography, digital watermarking, data leak prevention, and machine learning applications in security.

Education:

• BSc in Computer Engineering, University of Baghdad (2002)
• Master of Computer Science (Information Security), UTM (2010)
• PhD in Computer Science, UTM (2016)

Research Interests:

• Data Leak Prevention frameworks for educational institutions
• Cybersecurity in IoT and telemedicine systems
• Machine learning-driven threat detection
• E-learning security during pandemics
• Biometric authentication systems for healthcare

Awards & Grants:

• Principal Investigator: RM99,380 FRGS grant for data leak prevention (2020–2022)
• UTM International Doctoral Fellowship (2011–2012)
• Certificate of Excellence for PhD thesis (2016)

Advising & Professional Roles:

• Supervised over 20 PhD/Master students and 50+ bachelor dissertations
• Current PhD supervision: Safari Ismail Mussa (web app vulnerability scanners)
• External Examiner for MSc programmes at Birmingham City University (2021)
• Member of IEEE, BCS, ACM, and AIS professional bodies

He is affiliated with the Cyber Technology Institute (CTI) at DMU and contributes to editorial boards of journals/conferences.