Mohammad Shojafar (S'13-M'17-SM'19) is Senior Lecturer (Associate professor) in the Network Security, an Intel Innovator, a Senior IEEE member, working in the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, UK. Before joining 5GIC, he was a Senior Researcher and a Marie Curie Fellow in the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research group at the University of Padua, Italy. He was a Senior Researcher working in a network security project jointly with Ryerson University and Telus Communications Inc (TELUS) in Toronto, Canada, in 2019. Also, he was CNIT Senior Researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata contributed to 5G PPP European H2020 ‘‘SUPERFLUIDITY’’ project. Dr. Mohammad was a PI of PRISENODE project, a 275,000 euro Horizon 2020 Marie Curie project in the areas of network security and Fog task/resource scheduling collaborating at the University of Padua. He also was a PI on an Italian SDN security and privacy (60,000 euro) supported by the University of Padua in 2018 and a Co-PI on an Ecudiarain-British project on IoT and Industry 4.0 resource allocation (20,000 dollars) in 2020. He was contributed to some Italian projects in telecommunications like GAUChO - A Green Adaptive Fog Computing and Networking Architecture (400,000 euro), S2C: Secure, Software-defined Cloud (30,000 euro), and SAMMClouds- Secure and Adaptive Management of Multi-Clouds (30,000 euro) collaborating among Italian universities. He received the Ph.D. degree from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2016 with an ''Excellent'' degree. He received the honored BSc in CS at Iran University Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2006. He was a programmer/analyzer at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Tidewater ltd in Iran from 2008-2013, respectively. He published over 100 refereed top-tier articles in prestigious venues such as IEEE TCC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE Network, Computer Networks, and FGCS. He is an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IET Communications, Cluster Computing, and Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journals. He published a book entitled "Cybersecurity and Privacy in Cyber Physical Systems" which is appeared in CRC Taylor and Francis, recently.

1. M. Shojafar, C. Canali, R. Lancellotti, J.H. Abawajy, Adaptive Computing-plus-Communication Optimization Framework for Multimedia Processing in Cloud Systems, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1-14, 13 October 2016.  
   

2. M. Shojafar, N. Cordeschi, E. Baccarelli, Energy-efficient Adaptive Resource Management for Real-time Vehicular Cloud Services, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, pp. 196-209, March 2019. [Most cited]

3. M. Shojafar, S. Javanmardi, S. Abolfazli, N. Cordeschi, FUGE: A joint meta-heuristic approach to cloud job scheduling algorithm using fuzzy theory and a genetic method, Springer, Cluster Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 829-844, June 2015. 
   

4. C. Canali, L. Chiaraviglio, R. Lancellotti, M. Shojafar, Joint Minimization of the Energy Costs from Computing, Data Transmission, and Migrations in Cloud Data Centers, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, pp. 580-595, June 2018.

5. M.M. Tajiki, S. Salsano, L. Chiaraviglio, M. Shojafar, B. Akbari, "Joint Energy Efficient and QoS-aware Path Allocation and VNF Placement for Service Function Chaining", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 16, Iss. 1, pp. 374-388, March 2019.
   

EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship: PRISENODE,  (PI) (275,209 euro)

Ecuadorian-British project: Implementation of Fog Computing and Network Architecture for Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, (Co-PI) (20,000 dollars)

Spanish (Jaen University) Government Project: P18-RT-4046, optimization of energy sustainability in cloud computer centers through expert planning with analysis of interpretability (External Collaborator) (95,000 euro)

Italian MIUR: PRIN15 (GAUChO - A Green Adaptive Fog Computing and Networking Architecture)

TPC in Italian university research project (Sapienza university=V-FOG: ~25k euro for 1 year and WISECLOUD: ~40k euro for three years; Enzo Ferrari Department of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia: SAMMClouds: ~20k euro for 1 year) 

Associate Editor 

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE), (JCR IF 2018: 2.083) 

IET Communications, (JCR IF 2018: 1.779) 

Springer - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, (JCR IF 2018: 2.397) 

Springer - Cluster Computing, (JCR IF 2018: 1.851)

Program Committee Member (PC-member)

• ACM MobiCom '20 - CryBlock 2020, London, United Kingdom, September 21-25, 2020.
  
• IEEE PST '20, Toronto, Canada, August 17-19, 2020.
  
• IEEE ICCCN'20 - Green Networking and Sustainable Computing (GREEN), Hawaii, USA, August 3-6, 2020.
  
• IEEE ICDCS '20- (Network Meets Intelligent Computations)-NMIC, Singapore, July 7-10, 2020.
  
• IEEE ICC'20 - GCSN Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 7-11, 2020.
  
• IEEE CCGRID'20 - ICFEC'20, Melbourne, Australia, May 11-14, 2020. (to appear)
  
• IEEE INFOCOM '20 - DroneCom, Toronto, Canada, 6-9 July 2020.
  
• IEEE INFOCOM '20 - BlockSecSDN, Toronto, Canada, 6-9 July 2020. (to appear)
  
• IEEE INFOCOM '20 - DDINS, Toronto, Canada, 6-9 July 2020. (to appear)
  
• IEEE INFOCOM '20 - ICCN, Toronto, Canada, 6-9 July 2020.
  
• AINA '20, Caserta, Italy, April 27-29, 2020.
  
• IEEE FMEC '20, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020.
  
• IEEE ICFC'20, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020.
  
• IEEE FMEC'20, Paris, France, April 20-23, 2020.
  
• IEEE ICNC'20, Hawaii, USA, February 17-20, 2020.