MS Computer Science
COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
2019 — 2021Thesis: Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Malicious Nodes Detection for Optimized Routing in IoT Networks.
About Me
I belong to Mianwali, Pakistan, and currently live in Vienna Austria. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan where I specialized in Blockchain technology, focusing on privacy-preserving authentication and malicious node detection for optimized IoT network routing. My academic journey began with a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunication and networking from the same esteemed institution. Professionally, I have gain significant experience as a Blockchain Researcher at the Austrian Blockchain Center in Vienna, Austria, where I contributed to projects involving Polygon and Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain technologies, and evaluated IoT-based blockchain clients. Prior to this, I served as a Research Associate at the ComSense Lab, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad. My research work has led to few publications in prestigious journals, and I have submitted/published at notable conferences including the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. My research interests include Blockchain, the Internet of Things, Privacy, and trust-related issues.
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Education
BS Telecommunications and Networking
COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
2013 — 2017Experience
Researcher Blockchain
Austrian Blockchain Center | ABC Research GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Octuber, 2022 — December, 2023Researcher Blockchain
COMSENS Lab, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
Feb, 2019 — Feb, 2022Publications
Journals
Shahid Abbas, Hina Nasir, Ahmad Almogren, Ayman Altameem, Nadeem Javaid, "Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Malicious Node Detection in Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) Networks", IEEE Access, October 2022.
Sana Amjad, Shahid Abbas, Zain Abubaker, Mohammed H. Alsharif, Abu Jahid, Nadeem Javaid, "Blockchain-based Authentication and Cluster Head Selection using DDR-LEACH in Internet of Sensor Things" Sensors, March 2022.
Shahid Abbas, Nadeem Javaid, Ahmad Almogren, Sardar Muhammad Gulfam, Abrar Ahmed, Ayman Radwan "Securing Genetic Algorithm based Routing in an SDN for Blockchained Internet of Things", IEEE Access, October 2021.
Zahoor Ali Khan, Obaida Abdul Karim, Shahid Abbas, Nadeem Javaid, Yousaf bin Zikria, Usman Tariq, "Q-learning based energy-efficient and void avoidance routing protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks", Computer Networks, October 2021.
Conferences
Shahid Abbas, Sana Amjad, Stefan Crass, Amid Moinzadah “Analysis of IoT Connection Patterns with Blockchain” Submitted in The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Avila, Spain.
Shahid Abbas and Nadeem Javaid, "Blockchain-based Vehicular Trust Management and Less Dense Area Optimization", in 17th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Skills
Programming Languages and Tools
Solidity | JavaScript | TypeScript | VueJS | Golang | Matlab | SQLite
RESTfull API | Web3 API | Postman
Blockhains and Tools
Hyperledger Fabric | EVM based Blockchains
Caliper (performance evaluation tool for blockchain) | Oyente (verification tool for smart contracts)