Biography

Dr. Haroon Mahmood is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Al Ain University, Al Ain, UAE. Before joining this role, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore for 9 years.  He has taught courses to undergraduate, graduate and PhD. level students including Information Security, Computer Networks, Advanced Operating Systems and Internet of Things (IoT). His specialization is Information Security especially the design of reliable and secure IoT systems. He has been involved in many Industry-academia R&D projects. He along with his colleagues secured a funding of 92 million rupees from Planning Commission of Pakistan to establish an IoT Security Lab in University of Engineering and Technology Lahore in 2018. He worked as a Co-Principal Investigator to lead the project on “Security Audit Tools for IoT devices”. The research findings have been published in multiple journals and conferences in recent years.

He completed his PhD and Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. During his PhD, he worked on several aspects of embedded system design with particular emphasis on the design and modeling of reliable, secure and power-efficient solutions.

Education

• PhD. in Computer Engineering- Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• MS in Computer and Control Engineering- Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Selected Publications

1. Ibrahim Nadir, Haroon Mahmood, Ghalib Asadullah(2022), “A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques”, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Volume 38, 2022, 100552, ISSN 1874-5482, DOI:10.1016/j.ijcip.2022.100552

2. M. S. Yaqub, H. Mahmood, I. Nadir and G. A. Shah(2022), "An Ensemble Approach for IoT Firmware Strength Analysis using STRIDE Threat Modeling and Reverse Engineering," 2022 24th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/INMIC56986.2022.9972941

3. F. Maqbool, H. Mahmood and H. A. Khattak(2022), "An Efficient Fault-Prediction Mechanism for Improving Yield in Industry 5.0," 2022 24th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/INMIC56986.2022.9972980

4. Farooq Ahmed, Haroon Mahmood, Yasir Niaz (2021) Mobility modelling for urban traffic surveillance by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles. In: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous ComputingDOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2021.113382

5. I. Nadir, Z. Ahmad, H. Mahmood et al., (2020)
“Identifying Mirai-Exploitable Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware Through Static Analysis”,IEEE International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS), Islamabad, Pakistan, 20-21 Oct. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ICCWS48432.2020.9292382

 

6. I. Nadir, Z. Ahmad, H. Mahmood et al., (2019)
“An Auditing Framework for Vulnerability Analysis of IoT System”, 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Stockholm, Sweden, 2019, pp. 39-47, DOI: 10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00011

7. HU Rehman, I Bari, A Ali, H Mahmood (2017) A Bayesian approach for estimating protein–protein interactions by integrating structural and non-structural biological data.In: Molecular BioSystems 13 (12), 2017, p. 2592-2602, DOI: 10.1039/c7mb00484b

8. H. Mahmood, M. Loghi, E. Macii, M. Poncino (2014)
Cache Aging Reduction with Improved Performance using Dynamically Re-sizable Cache.In: DATE 2014: Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, Dresden, Germany, 24-28 March, 2014

9. H. Mahmood, M. Loghi, E. Macii, M. Poncino (2013) Energy/Lifetime Cooptimization by Cache Partitioning With Graceful Performance Degradation. In: TVLSI: Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, September 2013, DOI 10.1109/TVLSI.2013.2278549

 

10. Loghi M., Mahmood H, Calimera A., Poncino M., Macii E. (2012) Energy-optimal caches with guaranteed lifetime. In: ISLPED '12; ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, Redondo Beach, California, August 2012. pp. 141-146

Professional Experience

o Assistant Professor, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, FAST-NUCES (August 2015- Jan 2024)

o Assistant Professor, University of Central Punjab (Mar 2014 –August 2015)

 

Teaching Courses

o Secure Programming

o Information Security
o Internet of Things
o Advanced Operating Systems
o Advanced Computer Architecture
o Parallel and Distributed Computing
o Computer Architecture
o Computer Organization and Assembly Language
o Computer Networks
o Concurrent and Distributed Systems

o Embedded Systems/Microcontroller Programming
o Computer Architecture and Assembly Language

o Object Oriented Programming

o Discrete Structures