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Dr. Saif Al‑Kuwari

Dr. Saif Al‑Kuwari (PhD)

Assistant Professor
Information & Computing Technology
College of Science and Engineering
  • Office locationA 102-C, LAS Building

Biography

Dr. Saif Al-Kuwari is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and an adjunct Research Assistant Professor at Kindi Center for computing research, Qatar University. Dr. Al-Kuwari holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computers and Networks from the University of Essex, UK (2006), and two PhD's in computer science from the University of Bath, UK (2012) and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (2012).

Previously, he was the Director of the Department of Information Technology (2013 – 2018) and the Acting Director of the Department of Archiving and Documents (2016 – 2019) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar.

Dr. Al-Kuwari received several awards including two platinum awards for outstanding academic performance and two MESA-CISO100 Government Security Leader awards. Dr. Al-Kuwari is an IET Fellow, a BSC Fellow, an IEEE Senior Member, an ACM Senior Member, an IACR Member, an AAAS member and an MAA Member.

 

Research Interests

  • Applied Cryptography
  • Computational Forensics
  • AI applications in Cybersecurity
  • Adversarial Learning
  • Quantum Computing

Experience

Director

Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

2012 ‑ 2018

Education

Ph.D. (Cryptography)

University of Bath

2012

  • Ph.D. (Computational Forensics)

    Royal Holloway, University of London

    2012

  • B.Eng. (Computers and Networks)

    University of Essex

    2006

Selected Publications

  • Forensic Tracking and Mobility Prediction in Vehicular Networks

    S. Al‑Kuwari, S. D. Wolthusen - In Proceedings of the 6th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Advances in Digital Forensics vol. 337, pp. 91 – 105. 2010

  • Probabilistic Vehicular Trace Reconstruction Based on RF‑Visual Data Fusion

    S. Al‑Kuwari, S. D. Wolthusen - In Proceedings of the 11th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS), LNCS vol. 6109, pp. 16‑27 2010

  • Cryptographic Hash Functions: Recent Design Trends and Security Notions

    S. Al‑Kuwari, J. H. Davenport, R. J. Bradford - Science Press of China, 2010. Presented in Inscrypt. 2010

  • On the feasibility of carrying out live real‑time forensics for modern intelligent vehicles

    S. Al‑Kuwari, S. D. Wolthusen - In Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia (e‑Forensics 2010), Vol. 56, pp. 218‑134, Shanghai, China 10th – 12th Nov

  • Algorithmic Approach for Clandestine Localisation and Tracking in Short‑Range Environments

    S. Al‑Kuwari, S. D. Wolthusen - International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, vol. 9, No. 3/4, pp. 311‑‑327 2012

  • Fuzzy Trace Validation: Toward an Offline Forensic Tracking Framework

    S. Al‑Kuwari, S. D. Wolthusen - In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensics Engineering (SADFE ’11), Oakland CA, USA 2011

  • Engineering Aspects of Hash Functions

    In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM ’11), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 18th – 21st July, 2011

  • Multi‑Modal Trace Reconstruction: an Offline Forensic Tracking Approach

    S. Al‑Kuwari, Stephen D. Wolthusen - In Proceedings of the 8th annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Pretoria, South Africa 3th – 5th January, 2012
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