Mohammad Shojafar

Mohammad Shojafar (M'17-SM'19) is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Communication Systems within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK. He has secured over £1.9M in research funding as Principal Investigator for projects like ORAN-TWIN (EPSRC), PRISENODE (MSCA-IF), TRACE-V2X (MSCA-SE), and D-XPERT (Innovate UK), among others.

• Previously held positions include Senior Researcher at University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, Senior Researcher at Italian universities (Telecom Italia Mobile), and Postdoc at University of Padua
• Key affiliations: Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Green Communications and Networking, and Consumer Electronics Magazine

Research Specialism:

• 5G/6G Security and Privacy
• Open-RAN Security
• Green Networking
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Applied Cryptography

Publication Trends: Focus on Open RAN security challenges (bearer context migration poisoning, KPI poisoning attacks), IoT/Fog security (GAN-based attacks, distributed intrusion detection), Lightweight Cryptography (multi-signature protocols, authentication schemes), and AI-driven Network Optimization (federated learning, reinforcement learning applications). Recent work addresses security in vehicular networks, smart grids, and video streaming frameworks.

Scientific Recognition:

• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-GF-IF)
• Intel Innovator
• ACM Professional Member
• Sustainability Fellow at Institute for Sustainability
• IEEE Senior Member

Supervision: Currently supervising 6 PhD students and has graduated 5 PhD/MSc students since 2021. Active in 5G/Open RAN security research with over 20 related publications since 2022.