Baraq Ghaleb
baraq ghaleb

Dr Baraq Ghaleb

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2538

  B.Ghaleb@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Baraq Ghaleb (PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA, IEEE) is an associate professor within the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks and Security at Edinburgh Napier University. He is currently involved in delivering and leading several modules for the Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) levels within the Cyber Security and Systems Engineering subject group. Dr. Ghaleb was awarded his PhD from Edinburgh Napier University in June 2019. He is an experienced researcher with more than 8 years of cutting-edge research around Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Blockchain and Machine Learning. His research interests revolve around investigating the security vulnerabilities of the Internet of Things standards and utilising the cutting-edge advancements in addressing such vulnerabilities. Dr. Ghaleb has been involved in several externally funded research projects as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator and with a total budget of around £ 435,000. He has co-authored and published more than 35 research papers, in prestigious peer-reviewed outlets. In addition, Dr. Ghaleb has been involved in supervising and mentoring research Master and PhD students since he accomplished his PhD thesis in 2019.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Track Chair

 

External Examining/Validations

  • PhD Examiner

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best paper award International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021)
  • Edinburgh Napier PhD Scholarship
  • MSc Studentship Award
  • • BSc Studentship Award, Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry, Yemen (4 years)

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Fellowship-Highr Academy

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

 

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  • Patent

 

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Sustainable Environmental Monitoring: Multistage Fusion Algorithm for Remotely Sensed Underwater Super-Resolution Image Enhancement and Classification

Journal Article
Ghaban, W., Ahmad, J., Siddique, A. A., Alshehri, M. S., Saghir, A., Saeed, F., Ghaleb, B., & Rehman, M. U. (2025)
Sustainable Environmental Monitoring: Multistage Fusion Algorithm for Remotely Sensed Underwater Super-Resolution Image Enhancement and Classification. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 3640-3653. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2024.3522202
Oceans and seas cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface. If compared with the land mass there are a lot of unexplored locations, a wealth of natural resources, and diverse ...

A Comparative Study of VANET Routing Protocols for Safety Applications

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coyle, K., Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., & Ghaleb, B. (2023, November)
A Comparative Study of VANET Routing Protocols for Safety Applications. Presented at 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh
The rapid advancement of vehicular communication technologies has led to the emergence of Vehicular AdHoc Networks (VANETs), which hold immense potential for improving road sa...

SRSS: A New Chaos-Based Single-Round Single S-Box Image Encryption Scheme for Highly Auto-Correlated Data

Conference Proceeding
Shahbaz Khan, M., Ahmad, J., Ali, H., Pitropakis, N., Al-Dubai, A., Ghaleb, B., & Buchanan, W. J. (in press)
SRSS: A New Chaos-Based Single-Round Single S-Box Image Encryption Scheme for Highly Auto-Correlated Data.
With the advent of digital communication, securing digital images during transmission and storage has become a critical concern. The traditional s-box substitution methods oft...

Crypto Assets Custody: Taxonomy, Components, and Open Challenges

Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., & Ghaleb, B. (2023)
Crypto Assets Custody: Taxonomy, Components, and Open Challenges. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icbc56567.2023.10174959
Custody plays a fundamental role for organizations and individuals seeking to access crypto assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Cust...

The Mobile Attacks Under Internet of Things Networks

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kean, C., Ghaleb, B., Mcclelland, B., Ahmad, J., Wadhaj, I., & Thomson, C. (2022, September)
The Mobile Attacks Under Internet of Things Networks. Presented at International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems, Online
Since the introduction of the Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL), its security aspects have been the focus of the scientific community who reported severa...

An Overview of Blockchain-Based IoT Architectures and Designs

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Ali, H., Ghaleb, B., Wadhaj, I., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022, September)
An Overview of Blockchain-Based IoT Architectures and Designs. Presented at International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems, Online
In recent years there has been an increased interest in the internet of things and blockchain in both industry and academia. The blockchain is quickly becoming an important te...

A Testing Methodology for the Internet of Things Affordable IP Cameras

Book Chapter
Dzwigala, G., Ghaleb, B., Aldhaheri, T. A., Wadhaj, I., Thomson, C., & Al-Zidi, N. M. (2022)
A Testing Methodology for the Internet of Things Affordable IP Cameras. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2130-8_37
IP cameras are becoming a cheaper and more convenient option for a lot of households, whether it being for outdoor, indoor security, or as baby or pet monitors. Their security...

Sensitivity-Aware Configurations for High Packet Generation Rate LoRa Networks

Conference Proceeding
Alahmadi, H., Bouabdallah, F., Ghaleb, B., & Al-Dubai, A. (2022)
Sensitivity-Aware Configurations for High Packet Generation Rate LoRa Networks. In 2021 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC/CIT/DSCI/SmartCNS). https://doi.org/10.1109/IUCC-CIT-DSCI-SmartCNS55181.2021.00048
In this paper, we introduce Sensitivity-Aware LoRa Configuration (SAL), a new algorithm for efficient autonomous and distributed selection of LoRa physical layer transmission ...

Dynamic S-Box and PWLCM-Based Robust Watermarking Scheme

Journal Article
Sher Khan, J., Koç Kayhan, S., Siddiq Ahmed, S., Ahmad, J., Ayesha Siddiqa, H., Ahmed, F., …Al Dubai, A. (2022)
Dynamic S-Box and PWLCM-Based Robust Watermarking Scheme. Wireless Personal Communications, 125, 513-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-09562-9
Due to the increased number of cyberattacks, numerous researchers are motivated towards the design of such schemes that can hide digital information in a signal. Watermarking ...

A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution

Journal Article
Arif, J., Khan, M. A., Ghaleb, B., Ahmad, J., Munir, A., Rashid, U., & Al-Dubai, A. Y. (2022)
A Novel Chaotic Permutation-Substitution Image Encryption Scheme Based on Logistic Map and Random Substitution. IEEE Access, 10, 12966-12982. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3146792
Privacy is a serious concern related to sharing videos or images among people over the Internet. As a method to preserve images’ privacy, chaos-based image encryption algorith...

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