UMAR ABDALAH SAED ALBALAWI

Resume

Study Schedule

Research And Literature

Research Projects

Awards

Experience and administrative positions

Visiting Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Aug 2022 – Aug2023
Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, September 2020 -Present
Vice Dean, Vice-Dean for Graduate studies and Research College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
Chairman, Chair of Computer Engineering Department College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, May 2017 -July 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Oct 2016 - Septemper 2020
Research Assistant, Nano System Design Laboratory Computer Science & Engineering, University of North Texas, USA, Jan 2015 - July 2016
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Jan 2014 - June 2014
Research Assistant, of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab, Computer Science, Texas A&M University USA, Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science College of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, KSA, Nov 2008 -May2010
Chairman of MS Cybersecurity Analytics Curriculum Committee, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, September 2022 – August 2023
Participate in the SCDS 7-Year Master Plan Committee (as Team Leader working on Cybersecurity Certificates and MS CA (3-Year Track)), School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 2022 – February 2023
Member of Graduate Committee, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 2022 – May 2023
Member of Program of Study (PoS) Committee to earn the Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CDE) for Cybersecurity bachelor’s degree, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, August 2022 – May 2023
Member of the Scientific Council, University of Tabuk, September 2021 – Aug 2022
Member of Cybersecurity Committee, University of Tabuk, January 2022 – Aug 2022 -- February 2024 - Present
Member of Scholarship and Training Committee, University of Tabuk, Oct 2017 – Aug 2022

Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, USA
Master of Science in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, USA
Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Tabuk

Research interests

Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoT)

System Security

Software Security

Cryptography

T Nguyen, G Yeates, T Ly, and U Albalawi, “A Study on Exploring the Level of Awareness of Privacy Concerns and Risks, Applied Science, Volume 13, pp 1-15
O Younes, A Alharbi, A Yasseen, F Alshareef, F Albalawi, and U Albalawi, “CeTrivium: A Stream Cipher Based on Cellular Automata for Securing Real-Time Multimedia Transmission, Computer System Science & Engineering, Volume 47, 2895-2920 pp
M Alotaibi, R Pai, S Alathur, N Chetty, T Alhmiedat, M Aborokbah, U Albalawi, A Marie, A Bushnag, and V Kumar, “Association between Obesity and COVID-19: Insights from Social Media Content, Information, Volume 14, 2023, pp 1-11
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “Mostar Index of Neural Networks and Application, IEEE Access, Volume 11, 2022, pp 21345 – 21353
A Saleem, X Zhang, Y Xu, U Albalawi, O Younes, “A Critical Review on Channel Modeling: Implementations, Challenges and Applications, Electronics, Volume 12, 2023, pp 2-43
S Joshi, S Manimurugan, A Aljuhani, U Albalawi, and A Aljaedi, “Energy-efficient and Secure Wireless Communication for Telemedicine in IoT, Computer System Science & Engineering, Volume 43, 2022, pp 1111-1130
O Younes, and U Albalawi, “Securing Session Initiation Protocol, Sensors, Volume 22, 2022, pp 2-22
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “The Application of fault-Tolerant Partition Resolvability in Cycle-Related Graphs, Applied Science, Volume 12, 2022, pp 1 – 13
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “Fault-tolerant Partition Resolvability in Mesh Related Networks and Applications, IEEE Access, Volume 10, 2022, pp 71521 – 71529
U Albalawi, and M Mustafa, “Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques, “Challenges, and Approaches in Controlling and Fighting COVID-19: A Review, International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health, Volume 19, 2022, pp 1 – 24
G Abdullah, M Abuhmoud, U Albalawi, “Towards Flexible Transparent Authentication System for Mobile Application Security, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 840 – 845
M Mutmbak, S Alotaibi, K Alharbi, U Albalawi, O Younes, “Anomaly Detection Using Network Metadata, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 809 – 814
A Alzhrani, A Allatawi, B Alsharari, U Albalawi, and M, Mustafa, “Towards Security Awareness of Mobile Applications Using Semantic-based Sentiment Analysis, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 800 – 809
O Younes, and U Albalawi, "Analysis of Route Stability in Mobile Multihop Networks Under Random Waypoint Mobility", IEEE Access, Volume 8, 2020, pp 168121- 168136
U Albalawi, S Manimurugan, R Varatharajan, "Classification of Breast Cancer Mammogram Images using Convolution Neural Network", Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience, 2020, pp 1-12(
U Albalawi, "A Comprehensive Analysis On Intrusion Detection In Iot Based Smart Environments Using Machine Learning Approaches", International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2020
U Albalawi, "A Device-to-Device System for Safety and Emergency Services of Mobile Users", IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2019, pp 42-45 (
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Comparative Analysis of 6T, 7T, 8T, 9T, and 10T Realistic CNTFET Based SRAM“, Journal of Nanotechnology, Volume 5, Issue 22, 2017, pp567-572
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “A New Region A ware DCT Domain Invisible Robust Blind Watermarking Approach“, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Volume 75, Issue 22, 2016, pp1-35
E Kougianos, S P Mohanty, G Coelho, U Albalawi, and P Sundaravadivel, “Design of a High-Performance System for Secure Image Communication in the Internet of Things (Invited Paper), IEEE Access Journal, Volume 4, 2016, pp 1222--1242
I Moon, U Albalawi, J Kim, S Suh, and W Lee, "A Hybrid Classifier with a Binning Method for Network Application Identification, Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, Vol 18, No 2, pp3--22, September 2014
U Albalawi “Countermeasure of Statistical Inference in Database Security “, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018, pp 2044-2047
U Albalawi and S Josh, “Secure and Trusted Telemedicine in Internet of Things IoT“, in Proceedings of IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2018, pp 30-34
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Energy Efficient Cognitive Radio Network Using High Altitude Platform Station“, in Proceedings of the IEEE Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC)
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Energy Efficient Routing Considering Link Robustness in Wireless Sensor Networks“, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI), 2017, pp 3116-3120
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Statistical Process Variation Analysis of Schottky-Barrier type GNRFET for RF Application“, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on current trends in computer, electrical, electronics & communication (ICCTCEEC), 2017, pp 1-6
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “Energy Efficient Design of the Secure Better Protable Graphics Compression Architecture for Trusted Image Communication in the IoT, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2016,pp 302--307
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “SBPG: A Secure Better Portable Graphics Compression Architecture for High Speed Trusted Image Communication in IoT, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), 2016,pp 1--5
P Sundaravadivel, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, and U Albalawi, “An Energy Efficient Sensor for Thyroid Monitoring through IoT, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), 2016,pp 1--4
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “A Hardware Architecture for Better Portable Graphics (BPG) Compression Encoder, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, 2015, pp 291-296
G Coelho, E Kougianos, S P Mohanty, P Sundaravadivel, and U Albalawi, “An IoT-Enabled Modular Quadrotor Architecture for Real-Time Aerial Object Tracking, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, 2015, pp 197--202
U Albalawi, S Suh, and J Kim, “Incorporating Multiple Supervised Learning Algorithms for Effective Intrusion Detection, in Proceedings International Conference on Computer Networks and Security (ICCNS), Vol 6, N 8, February 2014, pp 94--98
I Moon, U Albalawi, J Kim, S Suh, W Lee, "A Hybrid Classifier using Payload Encoding and Flow Statistics for Application Identification," in Proceedings Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Campinas, Brazil, October 2013

Project Name	Project Description
User Privacy and Security Concerns in the Smart City	User Privacy and Security Concerns in the Smart City, University of Tabuk, 40000$, 2023-2025, Co-PI
A Social robotic obesity management and awareness system for children	A Social robotic obesity management and awareness system for children, University of Tabuk, 60000$, 2020-2022, SP
Secure and trusted telemedicine in Internet of Things Iot	Secure and trusted telemedicine in Internet of Things Iot, University of Tabuk, 10000$ 2016-2018, PI

College

Faculty of Computers and Information Technology

General specialization

Computer Engineer

Exact Specialty

Computer Engineer

Academic degree (rank)

Doctorate

Nationality

SAUDI

Job Title

Professor

Last Modified Date:2026/01/22 - 01:53 PM03/Sha’ban/1447 - 16:53Saudi Arabia Time

Visiting Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Aug 2022 – Aug2023
Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, September 2020 -Present
Vice Dean, Vice-Dean for Graduate studies and Research College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
Chairman, Chair of Computer Engineering Department College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, May 2017 -July 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Oct 2016 - Septemper 2020
Research Assistant, Nano System Design Laboratory Computer Science & Engineering, University of North Texas, USA, Jan 2015 - July 2016
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science College of Computers and Information Technology University of Tabuk, KSA, Jan 2014 - June 2014
Research Assistant, of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab, Computer Science, Texas A&M University USA, Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science College of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, KSA, Nov 2008 -May2010
Chairman of MS Cybersecurity Analytics Curriculum Committee, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, September 2022 – August 2023
Participate in the SCDS 7-Year Master Plan Committee (as Team Leader working on Cybersecurity Certificates and MS CA (3-Year Track)), School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 2022 – February 2023
Member of Graduate Committee, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 2022 – May 2023
Member of Program of Study (PoS) Committee to earn the Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CDE) for Cybersecurity bachelor’s degree, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, August 2022 – May 2023
Member of the Scientific Council, University of Tabuk, September 2021 – Aug 2022
Member of Cybersecurity Committee, University of Tabuk, January 2022 – Aug 2022 -- February 2024 - Present
Member of Scholarship and Training Committee, University of Tabuk, Oct 2017 – Aug 2022

T Nguyen, G Yeates, T Ly, and U Albalawi, “A Study on Exploring the Level of Awareness of Privacy Concerns and Risks, Applied Science, Volume 13, pp 1-15
O Younes, A Alharbi, A Yasseen, F Alshareef, F Albalawi, and U Albalawi, “CeTrivium: A Stream Cipher Based on Cellular Automata for Securing Real-Time Multimedia Transmission, Computer System Science & Engineering, Volume 47, 2895-2920 pp
M Alotaibi, R Pai, S Alathur, N Chetty, T Alhmiedat, M Aborokbah, U Albalawi, A Marie, A Bushnag, and V Kumar, “Association between Obesity and COVID-19: Insights from Social Media Content, Information, Volume 14, 2023, pp 1-11
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “Mostar Index of Neural Networks and Application, IEEE Access, Volume 11, 2022, pp 21345 – 21353
A Saleem, X Zhang, Y Xu, U Albalawi, O Younes, “A Critical Review on Channel Modeling: Implementations, Challenges and Applications, Electronics, Volume 12, 2023, pp 2-43
S Joshi, S Manimurugan, A Aljuhani, U Albalawi, and A Aljaedi, “Energy-efficient and Secure Wireless Communication for Telemedicine in IoT, Computer System Science & Engineering, Volume 43, 2022, pp 1111-1130
O Younes, and U Albalawi, “Securing Session Initiation Protocol, Sensors, Volume 22, 2022, pp 2-22
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “The Application of fault-Tolerant Partition Resolvability in Cycle-Related Graphs, Applied Science, Volume 12, 2022, pp 1 – 13
K Azhar, S Zafar, A Aljaedi, and U Albalawi, “Fault-tolerant Partition Resolvability in Mesh Related Networks and Applications, IEEE Access, Volume 10, 2022, pp 71521 – 71529
U Albalawi, and M Mustafa, “Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques, “Challenges, and Approaches in Controlling and Fighting COVID-19: A Review, International Journal of Environment Research and Public Health, Volume 19, 2022, pp 1 – 24
G Abdullah, M Abuhmoud, U Albalawi, “Towards Flexible Transparent Authentication System for Mobile Application Security, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 840 – 845
M Mutmbak, S Alotaibi, K Alharbi, U Albalawi, O Younes, “Anomaly Detection Using Network Metadata, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 809 – 814
A Alzhrani, A Allatawi, B Alsharari, U Albalawi, and M, Mustafa, “Towards Security Awareness of Mobile Applications Using Semantic-based Sentiment Analysis, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Application, Volume 13, 2022, pp 800 – 809
O Younes, and U Albalawi, "Analysis of Route Stability in Mobile Multihop Networks Under Random Waypoint Mobility", IEEE Access, Volume 8, 2020, pp 168121- 168136
U Albalawi, S Manimurugan, R Varatharajan, "Classification of Breast Cancer Mammogram Images using Convolution Neural Network", Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience, 2020, pp 1-12(
U Albalawi, "A Comprehensive Analysis On Intrusion Detection In Iot Based Smart Environments Using Machine Learning Approaches", International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2020
U Albalawi, "A Device-to-Device System for Safety and Emergency Services of Mobile Users", IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5, 2019, pp 42-45 (
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Comparative Analysis of 6T, 7T, 8T, 9T, and 10T Realistic CNTFET Based SRAM“, Journal of Nanotechnology, Volume 5, Issue 22, 2017, pp567-572
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “A New Region A ware DCT Domain Invisible Robust Blind Watermarking Approach“, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Volume 75, Issue 22, 2016, pp1-35
E Kougianos, S P Mohanty, G Coelho, U Albalawi, and P Sundaravadivel, “Design of a High-Performance System for Secure Image Communication in the Internet of Things (Invited Paper), IEEE Access Journal, Volume 4, 2016, pp 1222--1242
I Moon, U Albalawi, J Kim, S Suh, and W Lee, "A Hybrid Classifier with a Binning Method for Network Application Identification, Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, Vol 18, No 2, pp3--22, September 2014
U Albalawi “Countermeasure of Statistical Inference in Database Security “, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2018, pp 2044-2047
U Albalawi and S Josh, “Secure and Trusted Telemedicine in Internet of Things IoT“, in Proceedings of IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2018, pp 30-34
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Energy Efficient Cognitive Radio Network Using High Altitude Platform Station“, in Proceedings of the IEEE Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC)
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Energy Efficient Routing Considering Link Robustness in Wireless Sensor Networks“, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI), 2017, pp 3116-3120
S Josh, and U Albalawi, “Statistical Process Variation Analysis of Schottky-Barrier type GNRFET for RF Application“, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on current trends in computer, electrical, electronics & communication (ICCTCEEC), 2017, pp 1-6
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “Energy Efficient Design of the Secure Better Protable Graphics Compression Architecture for Trusted Image Communication in the IoT, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2016,pp 302--307
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “SBPG: A Secure Better Portable Graphics Compression Architecture for High Speed Trusted Image Communication in IoT, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), 2016,pp 1--5
P Sundaravadivel, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, and U Albalawi, “An Energy Efficient Sensor for Thyroid Monitoring through IoT, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), 2016,pp 1--4
U Albalawi, S P Mohanty, and E Kougianos, “A Hardware Architecture for Better Portable Graphics (BPG) Compression Encoder, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, 2015, pp 291-296
G Coelho, E Kougianos, S P Mohanty, P Sundaravadivel, and U Albalawi, “An IoT-Enabled Modular Quadrotor Architecture for Real-Time Aerial Object Tracking, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, 2015, pp 197--202
U Albalawi, S Suh, and J Kim, “Incorporating Multiple Supervised Learning Algorithms for Effective Intrusion Detection, in Proceedings International Conference on Computer Networks and Security (ICCNS), Vol 6, N 8, February 2014, pp 94--98
I Moon, U Albalawi, J Kim, S Suh, W Lee, "A Hybrid Classifier using Payload Encoding and Flow Statistics for Application Identification," in Proceedings Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Campinas, Brazil, October 2013