Safdar H. Bouk

Research area:

Safdar H. Bouk’s current research is focused on the reliable and resilient vehicular networks, cyber-physical systems, and wireless networks. He has a very solid research and teaching experience in the above research domains. The current research involves the application of future Internet architectures in vehicular and wireless networks that offers inherent content security and cyber-attack resiliency. Additionally, he also published his research that improves the content delivery reliability in the mobile networks. Safdar has currently focused his research at ODU to realize the attack resilient and low latency wireless networks using 5G and future Internet technologies.

Bio:

Dr. Safdar H. Bouk received the B.S. degree in computer systems from the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He was a recipient of the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship. Dr. Bouk served as lecturer with the Department of Computer Engineering, QUEST, Pakistan, from 2002 to 2005, and Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at CIIT, Islamabad from 2010 to 2016. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. In Daegu, South Korea, he also served as Research Professor with the department of Information and Communication Engineering, DGIST from 2017 to 2021. His research interests include reliable and low latency wireless networks, Future Internet Architectures, and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems.

Education:       

Ph.D. Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 2010

Masters of Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 2007

Bachelors of Engineering (Computer Science), Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, 2001