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Dr Ahmad Mohsin

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Staff Member Details
Email: a.mohsin@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9023-0851

Dr. Ahmad Mohsin is currently working as a Research Fellow with Cyber Security CRC, headquartered at ECU. Dr. Ahmad completed his PhD in Computers Science and Software Engineering from ECU, Australia. He is working on diverse and innovative research projects for securing critical infrastructures using Digital Twins and complex system modelling. In recent past he has worked on projects improving Defence Capabilities at a leading R&D driven Software Technology company, Australia. He has worked with local Australian Software Industry especially in applying modern Software Architecture Patterns and Styles for enhancing systems aimed for Big Data Analytics.  In industry he has successfully applied Security Frameworks and standards including NIST CSF, ACSC ISM and ISO 27001.  Dr. Ahmad has expertise in Research areas of Software-Intensive Systems Modeling & Simulation involving Autonomous Systems, composed of Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. Especially he has applied Agile Software Architecture methods and scientific approach using Stochastic modelling and simulation towards the assurance of dynamic systems.  He has number Research publications in journals and International Conferences including ICSA and SOSE. He has done peer review of multiple conferences and Journals papers for scientific community.

Past Teaching at ECU

Database Analysis and Design, System Architecture and Design, Foundations of Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design,

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Computer Society, Australia, 2022- Present
  • Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA 2018- present
  • AISA – Australia Information Security Association, 2020-2022

Awards and Recognition

  • Awarded Higher Degree by Research Scholarship (HDRS) for PhD Program at ECU, Total Scholarship Grant: ($ AUD 98,000) Australia (2017- 2021)
  • Granted, First Ever APR- Internship Grant for Doctoral Research for industrial collaboration APR- INTERN-AMSI and Government of Australia (Project Cost: $ AUD 20,500) ( 2019)
  • Awarded Research Grant under Strategic Research Fund (SRF) ($ AUD 2400)
  • Awarded Research Grant by ECU- HDRS for Research Equipment ($ AUD: 4500)

National and International

  • IEEE Perfect Pitch Graduate Research Competition Runner up Award, Western Australian Universities 2021
  • Awarded PITB-Outstanding Talent Scholarship (MS) – Punjab Information Technology Board  (2008)
  • Awarded Medal of Honour (MS)- FAST-NUCES Pakistan (2010)

Research Areas and Interests

  • Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures
  • Stochastic Systems Modeling and Simulations
  • Trustworthy and Resilient Systems
  • Digital Twins

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2021.
  • Master of Science (Software Project Management), Pakistan, 2009.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Zubair, M., Janicke, H., Mohsin, A., Maglaras, L., Sarker, MI. (2024). Automated Sensor Node Malicious Activity Detection with Explainability Analysis. Sensors, 24(12), Article number 3712. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/s24123712.
  • Sarker, MI., Janicke, H., Mohsin, A., Gill, A., Maglaras, L. (2024). Explainable AI for cybersecurity automation, intelligence and trustworthiness in digital twin: Methods, taxonomy, challenges and prospects. ICT Express, 2024(Article in Press), 24 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2024.05.007.

2023

Conference Publications

  • Naqvi, SI., Bin, ZJ., Mohsin, A., Pervez Akhter, M., Ur Rahman, MM. (2023). DBoT: Enhancing Scalability and Privacy in Intelligent Building Spaces through a Direct Acyclic Graph Blockchain. 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST) (7 pages). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOSST60641.2023.10414234.
  • Mohsin, A., Janicke, H., Nepal, S., Holmes, D. (2023). Digital Twins and the Future of Their Use Enabling Shift Left and Shift Right Cybersecurity Operations. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA) (277-286). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS-ISA58951.2023.00042.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Mohsin, A., Janjua, N., Islam, S., Babar, M. (2020). SAM-SoS: A Stochastic Software Architecture Modeling and Verification Approach for Complex System-of-Systems. IEEE Access, 8(2020), 177580-177603. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025934.

Conference Publications

  • Mohsin, A., Janjua, N., Masek, M., Neto, VV. (2020). Model Synthesis and Stochastic Automated Verification of Systems-of-Systems Dynamic Architectures. 2020 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems, ICACSIS 2020 (285-293). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACSIS51025.2020.9263119.
  • Teixeira, P., Lebtag, B., Santos, R., Fernandes, J., Mohsin, A., Kassab, M., Neto, V. (2020). Constituent System Design: A Software Architecture Approach. Proceedings 2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion ICSA-C 2020 (218-225). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C50368.2020.00045.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Nawaz, F., Mohsin, A., Janjua, N. (2019). Service description languages in cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research issues. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 13(2), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-019-00263-z.

Conference Publications

  • Mohsin, A., Janjua, N., Islam, S., Neto, VV. (2019). Modeling Approaches for System-of-Systems Dynamic Architecture: Overview, Taxonomy and Future Prospects. Proceedings of the 2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) (49-56). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2019.8753877.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Mohsin, A., Janjua, N. (2018). A review and future directions of SOA-based software architecture modeling approaches for System of Systems. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 12(3-4), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-018-0245-1.

Research Projects

  • Enhancing system architecture in support of event and real-time data streaming applications within the context of the Virtuoso platform, CingleVue International Pty Ltd, APR Intern, 2019, $14,500.

Research Student Supervision

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