Summary
Mohammad Shojafar is an Associate Professor and researcher with nine years of experience specializing in 5G/6G network security, adversarial machine learning, and secure edge/cloud architectures. Based at the University of Surrey’s 5G/6G Innovation Centre, he leads multiple UK/EU projects (e.g., AUTOTRUST, APTd5G) that span intrusion detection, lightweight cryptography, distributed ledger approaches and quantum-safe methods for mobile networks. His career blends deep academic research and hands-on systems work across SDN/NFV, fog/edge computing, and blockchain-enabled IoT, with earlier roles building and analyzing SDN testbeds and energy-efficient cloud solutions. Comfortable coding in Python, C/C++ and Matlab, he combines analytical modeling and numerical optimization with practical deployments—an uncommon mix that informs both proposal-driven leadership and operational research impact.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science (Software Eng.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science (Software Eng.) at Iran University of Science and Technology
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science (Software Eng.), A+, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science (Software Eng.), A+ at Qazvin university
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information and Communications Technology, Excellent, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information and Communications Technology, Excellent at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, Persian, Arabic, Italian