Dr. Mohammed Bin Mujib
Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Cybersecurity Department
University of Bisha, CCIT, Building 24, Room: 6, Email: mmalshahrani@ub.edu.sa
Education:
Ph.D. in Cybersecurity of IoT, University of Victoria, Canada, 2019
M.Eng. Networking, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2013
B.Sc. Computer Science, King Khalid University, KSA, 2009
Academic experience:
University of Bisha, KSA, Dean of College of Business, 2025– present
University of Bisha, KSA, Dean of Deanship of Admission and Registration, 2023– 2025
University of Bisha, KSA, Dean of Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Learning, 2021– 2023
University of Bisha, KSA, Supervisor of Cybersecurity Administration, 2021– present
University of Bisha, KSA, Vice Dean for Educational Affairs, 2020– 2021
University of Bisha, KSA, Academic Accreditation Committee Head, 2020– 2021
University of Bisha, KSA, Assistant Professor, 2020 – present
University of Bisha, KSA, College of Art and science, E-Learning unit Head 2016 –2017
University of Bisha, KSA, College of Art and science, Student Affairs Unit Head 2016 –2017
University of Bisha, KSA, Lecturer, 2016 –2019
Non-Academic Experience:
Network Engineer, Albilad Bank, KSA., 2013 – 2015
Renewable Resource Atlas of KSA Arabia Project Manager and Researcher, Research, Development and
Innovation sector, King Abdullah city for Atomic and renewable energy, KSA, 2015 – 2016
Certifications or Professional Registrations
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) 2013
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) Routing 2013
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) Switching 2013
Current Membership in Professional Organizations
- Several research papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences (e.g. Information security and
Application (Elsevier), Journal of Security and Privacy (wiley), Journal of Internet of things
(Elsevier), and International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security)
- A reviewer for a number of well-known journals (e.g. IEEE Access, Elsevier computers & security,
and Journal of Security and Privacy (wiley).
Honors and Awards
Granted a full scholarship (2017-2019) from University of Bisha to pursue the PhD degree in Canada.
Granted a full scholarship (2010-2013) from Ministry of Education to pursue the master’s degree in
Canada.
Received multiple Academic Excellence Awards during the master’s and PhD studies.
Distinguished Student’s Award, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2013.
Distinguished Student’s Award, King Khalid University, KSA, 2009.
Service activities (within and outside of the institution)
Member in many councils, units and committees
Most Important Publications and presentations
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Alshahrani, M., Traore, I., & Woungang, I. (2019). Anonymous mutual IoT interdevice authentication and
key agreement scheme based on the ZigBee technique. Journal of Internet of Things, Elsevier, Volume 7,
September 2019.
Alshahrani, M., & Traore, I. (2019). Secure mutual authentication and automated access control for IoT smart
home using cumulative keyed-hash chain. Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier,
Volume 45, April 2019, Pages 156-175.
Alshahrani, M., Traore, I., & Woungang, I. (2019). Design and Implementation of a Lightweight
Authentication Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT). The 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet
of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2019), Granada, Spain, October 22-25 2019.
Alshahrani, M., Traore, I., \& Saad, S. (2019). Lightweight IoT Mutual Authentication Scheme based on
Transient Identities and Transactions History. The 12th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice
of Security (FPS2019), Toulouse, France, November 5-7 2019.
Alshahrani, M., Traore, I., & Woungang, I. (2019). Anonymous IoT Mutual InterdeviceAuthentication
Scheme based on Incremental Counter. The 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and
Cloud (FiCloud 2019)}, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26-28 2019.
Alshahrani, M. (2018). Emerging Biometrics Technologies. In International Conference on Intelligent,
Secure,and Dependable Systems in Distributed and Cloud Environments}. Springer, Cham, 2017.
Alshahrani, M. (2021). Secure Multifactor Remote Access User Authentication Framework for IoT
Networks. CMC-COMPUTERS MATERIALS & CONTINUA.).
Alshahrni, M., et al. “An Intelligent Deep Convolutional Network Based COVID-19 Detection from Chest X-
Rays.” Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier BV, Sept. 2022.
Alshahrani, M.. An IoT Lightweight Authentication Scheme using PUFs, Journal of Information Security and
Applications, Elsevier. (Submitted)
Fakroon, M., Alshahrani, M., Traore, I., & Gebali, F. (2020). Secure remote anonymous user authentication
scheme for smart home environment. Internet of Things, Elsevier 100158.
Naeem, H., Alsirhani, A., Alshahrani, M. M., & Alomari, A. (2022). Android Device Malware Classification
Framework Using Multistep Image Feature Extraction and Multihead Deep Neural Ensemble. Traitement du
Signal, 39(3).
Quasim, M. T., Khan, M. A., Algarni, F., & Alshahrani, M. M. (2021). Fundamentals of Smart Cities.
In Smart Cities: A Data Analytics Perspective (pp. 3-16). Springer, Cham.
Traore, I., Alshahrani, M., & Obaidat, M. S. (2018). State of the art and perspectives on traditional and
emerging biometrics: A survey. Journal of Security and Privacy, Wiley, Vol. 1 Issue 6, November/December
2018.
Ullah, F., Alsirhani, A., Alshahrani, M. M., Alomari, A., Naeem, H., & Shah, S. A. (2022).
Explainable Malware Detection System Using Transformers-Based Transfer Learning and Multi-
Model Visual Representation. Sensors, 22(18), 6766.
Research Areas of Interest
Cybersecurity, Digital forensics, Internet of Things, Biometrics Security, Blockchain, Cybersecurity
Education, Data Mining and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity, and Computer Networks.
Professional development activities (most recent)
Trainee- Technical cybersecurity exercise - governance, risk and compliance track, National
Cybersecurity Authority, 45 hours, KSA, 2022.
Trainee- Strategic Leadership, University of Bisha, 6 hours, KSA Arabia, 2022.
Trainee- MBTI and Emotional intelligence, University of Bisha, 6 hours, KSA, 2022.
Trainee- Strategic planning, University of Bisha, 6 hours, KSA, 2022.
Trainee- Team Building, University of Bisha, 6 hours, KSA, 2022.
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Trainee- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Training, EC-Council, KSA, 2021.
Trainee - GAs and PLOs Assessment, 3-hours workshop, University of Bisha, KSA, 2022.
Trainee - Program & Course Specifications, 5-hours workshop, University of Bisha, KSA, 2021.
Trainee - Course Portfolio Preparing, University of Bisha, 3 hours, KSA, 2020.