Dr Salaheddin Darwish
Academic and research departments
Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Computer Science Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.About
Biography
I am a research fellow in secure systems at Surrey Centre for Cyber Security working with Professor Steve Schneider, Dr David M Williams and Dr François Dupressoir on the Swift-Aid ((https://streeva.com/innovateuk/).) project to provide a security analysis of the Gift Aid Blockchain and smart contracts with a focus on Protocol Formal Analysis (e.g. Event-B Formal Modelling). I have worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) in Information Security at Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, University of London with Professor Stephen D Wolthusen on the TIHM project to develop risk and threat models for security and privacy of therapeutic, diagnostic, and medical IoT devices.
I have completed my BEng and PG-Dip degrees in computer engineering from University of Aleppo, Syria. I have studied my Master at Brunel University London and also, I hold a PhD in the field of security of Mobile ad-hoc networks from the same university. I am recognised as an Associate Fellowship in Higher Education (AFHEA) from HEA. I have experience working with different roles in teaching, system design, simulation and programming such as system analyst, ORACLE developer, java programmer and (Java & C++) simulation modeller. My research interests are security and privacy in Blockchain Technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile ad-hoc network systems.
ResearchResearch interests
- Security and privacy in distributed systems (MANETs, IoT, Webservices, Cloud and Blockchain)
- Formal modelling for system verification
- Threat Modelling
- Authentication and Access control
Research projects
I have joined the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) to work on the SwiftAid project. This project in collaboration with Streeva and Creditcall, (a £460,000 grant by Innovate UK) aims to leverage the new Blockchain and Distributed ledger technologies (e.g. Hyperledger and Chaincode)with the aim of streamlining the attachment of Gift Aid to card donations. This process will make giving Gift Aid easier for donors and charities. My role is to carry out research to provide a security analysis of the Gift Aid Blockchain, with a focus on Protocol Formal Analysis.
Research interests
- Security and privacy in distributed systems (MANETs, IoT, Webservices, Cloud and Blockchain)
- Formal modelling for system verification
- Threat Modelling
- Authentication and Access control
Research projects
I have joined the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) to work on the SwiftAid project. This project in collaboration with Streeva and Creditcall, (a £460,000 grant by Innovate UK) aims to leverage the new Blockchain and Distributed ledger technologies (e.g. Hyperledger and Chaincode)with the aim of streamlining the attachment of Gift Aid to card donations. This process will make giving Gift Aid easier for donors and charities. My role is to carry out research to provide a security analysis of the Gift Aid Blockchain, with a focus on Protocol Formal Analysis.
Publications
Additional publications
- Darwish, S., Nouretdinov, I. & Wolthusen, S., (2018): A Dynamic Distributed Architecture for Preserving Privacy of Medical IoT Monitoring Measurements. In 16th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics - ICOST 2018, Singapore, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham, Vol 10898 (pp. 146-157).
- Nouretdinov, I., Darwish, S., & Wolthusen, S. (2018): Detection of Untrustworthy IoT Measurements Using Expert Knowledge of Their Joint Distribution In 16th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics - ICOST 2018, Singapore, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham, Vol 10898 (pp. 310-316).
- Darwish, S., Nouretdinov, I., Wolthusen, S. (2017) : Towards Composable Threat Assessment for Medical IoT (MIoT) in The Fourth International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2017 (PSCare17), Lund, Sweden, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 113, 2017, (pp. 627-632).
- Darwish, S., Taylor, S. J.E., & Ghinea, G. (2012): Security Server-Based Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. In Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on (pp. 926-930).
- Zang, Y., Thomas, J. P., Ghinea, G., Thomas, M., & Darwish, S. (2012): Secure Sector Based Bi-Path Clustering and Routing Protocol for WSNs. In Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on (pp. 777-784).