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Brief Bio

Basit Qureshi is currently with the College of Computer & Information Science at [Prince Sultan University]. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from [University of Bradford] in the year 2011 under the supervision of Dr. Geyong Min. Prior to that he received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from [Florida Atlantic University] in 2002 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from [Ohio University], OH USA in 2000.   His research interests include Wireless Networks Security, Trust security and privacy (TSP) in wireless networks and TSP in P2P applications for Mobile Ad Hoc wireless Networks. To date he has published in various reputable international journals and conferences. He received the best faculty teaching award from PSU in 2008/9 and is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the world 2009 ed. He also receievd the best paper award at the 6th IEEE/IEFP Trustcom 2010 held in Hongkong. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society and ACM.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Bradford, Bradford UK, 2011.
• MSc in Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL, USA, 2002.
• BSc in Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens OH, USA, 2000.

Scientific and Professional Memberships

• Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE USA)
• Member IEEE Computer Society (USA)

• Member Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Best Paper award at 6th IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Trusted Computing and Communications (Trustcom2010), Hong Kong, Dec 11-13, 2010.
• Best Teaching Faculty in College of Computer and Info Sc. Award. 2008
• Recognition: Organizing committee Open House event PSU 2010.
• Listed in World's Marquis Who's Who 2009.
• Research Assistantship at College of Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA, 2002.

Research Interests

I am currently involved in doing research in the following areas

• Trust and reputation management in distributed systems
• Trust and reputation in mobile Peer to peer systems
• Mobile peer to peer applications
• Design of Trust based framework / middleware for mobile applications
• Delay tolerant networking
• Disconnected Mobile ad hoc networks
• Mobile Social Networking
• Routing in MANETs based on social data in Mobile Social Networks

• IUCC2012, 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, Liverpool, UK, 2012.
• SDMA2012, 2nd Symposium on Data Mining and Applications, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2012.
• Softcom 2011, 19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Croatia, 2011
• DSDE2011, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering, Xian, China, 2011.
• MOSN2011, 1st IEEE NSS Workshop on Mobile and Online Social Networks, Milan, Italy, 2011.
• ICESS2010. 7^th IEEE Intl Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, Bradford, UK, 2010.
• WAMIS2010, 5^th Intl, Symposium on Web and Mobile Info’ Services, Perth, Australia, 2010.
• SPECTS09, 2009 Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecom Systems, Istanbul Turkey, 2009.
• ITI09, 31^st International Conference on Information Technology Interface, Croatia, 2009.
• NCC08, 20^th National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2008.
• ITI08, 30^th International Conference on Information Technology Interface, Croatia, 2008.
• NCC06, 19^th National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2006. 

Reviewer for Journals:

• Springer Journal of Supercomputing
• Elsevier ACI, Applied Computing and Informatics
• Elsevier COMCOM, Computer Communications
• Inderscience IJMC. Intl Journal of Mobile Communications 

Session Chair at Conferences

• IEEE ICESS, 7^th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Bradford, UK, 2010.
• NCC06, 19^th National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2006.

Industrial    

During my Master degree program at Florida Atlantic University I was awarded a research assistantship at TSI Global Inc, Ft. Lauderdale FL and Motorola Inc, Plantation FL during 2001-2002. During this period of time I was involved in development of software for Mobile devices and database systems.