Dr MD ISRAFIL BISWAS

Senior Lecturer

MD Israfil Biswas MD ISRAFIL BISWAS is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Technology. He is teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units, ISRAFIL is a unit coordinator of an MSc unit, Apprenticeship Program Lead for Cybersecurity, and leading several academic and industrial research projects. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University (Manmet). Dr. BISWAS finished his PhD from the University of Aberdeen, UK in Communication Engineering, and among other research outputs, it has led to an Internet-Draft at IETF.

He was an active member of Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry. He is supervising several PhDs including many BSc and MSc projects in the field of cybersecurity, IoT, AI, machine learning, Data Science, and communications networks. ISRAFIL is an active and renowned personal in networks and security, initiated and led the advanced cybersecurity testbed at Manmet, he has published several high-impact articles in top Journals and conferences, contributed to IETF standardisation, published patents in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. He has obtained funding from several institutions as a PI including The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and Digital Futures 2010 at Horizon Digital Economy Research UK, lead innovator and lead for several international research projects.

ISRAFIL worked with the EPSRC-funded large ‘SPHERE IRC’ for the ‘Internet of Things (IoT) Networking’ project at the University of Bristol and was involved in designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining two large projects simultaneously. In 2018, Dr. BISWAS worked as a Research Engineer for the development of the ‘Data to Action’ project at British Telecom (BT) for an end-to-end IoT management framework and published patents with BT. He was a Research Associate for several multi million projects at Ulster University. Dr. BISWAS also worked as a Research Fellow at the City University London on multi million projects in collaboration with many industrial partners including The European Microsoft Innovation Center.

Dr. BISWAS also worked as a Visiting Lecturer for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students at the School of Informatics at the City University London. He has chaired several international conferences, and workshops and has delivered many invited and keynote talks across the globe, ISRAFIL is also a reviewer and editor of many well-reputed journals and conferences. In the past, ISRAFIL was a lecturer in the school of engineering and course instructor for the Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA at the American International University, Bangladesh.