Dr Aryan Pasikhani
School of Computer Science
Lecturer in Cybersecurity
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Member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group
aryan.pasikhani@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Aryan Pasikhani
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Dr Aryan Pasikhani is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield and a member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield and previously served as an Academic Fellow in Cybersecurity.
His research focuses on AI security, offensive AI, adversarial machine learning, reinforcement learning, privacy-preserving machine learning, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and the security, privacy, and transparency of AI/ML systems.
Alongside his academic work, Dr Pasikhani is the founder of CybPass, a University of Sheffield spin-out company that provides autonomous, expert-in-the-loop security testing and compliance assurance for AI systems across the AI lifecycle.
- Research interests
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- Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
- Reinforcement-Learning-based security systems
- Security and Privacy in Internet of Things
- Machine-learning or Modelling Attacks
- Security and Privacy in Mobile Communication
- Security of WSN and Low-power and Lossy Networks
- Security and Privacy in Smart-Grid
- Hardware Security of the IoT Devices
- 5G and Next Generation Communication Security
- Security and Privacy in Tactile-Internet-based Applications
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Baiting AI: Deceptive Adversary Against AI-Protected Industrial Infrastructures. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-18.
- Privacy-preserving Robotic-based Multi-factor Authentication Scheme for Secure Automated Delivery System. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 1-1.
- User-empowered secure privacy-preserving authentication scheme for Digital Twin. Computers & Security, 140. View this article in WRRO
- AIDPS: Adaptive intrusion detection and prevention system for underwater acoustic sensor networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32(2), 1080-1095. View this article in WRRO
- Incremental hybrid intrusion detection for 6LoWPAN. Computers & Security, 135. View this article in WRRO
- Adversarial RL-based IDS for evolving data environment in 6LoWPAN. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 17, 3831-3846. View this article in WRRO
- Intrusion detection systems in RPL-based 6LoWPAN: a systematic literature review. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(11), 12940-12968. View this article in WRRO
- VFLGAN: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Network for Vertically Partitioned Data Publication. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024(4), 840-858.
Conference proceedings
- Web application penetration testing with artificial intelligence: a systematic review. 2024 22nd International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2024) (pp 236-245). Bertinoro, Italy, 24 October 2024 - 24 October 2024. View this article in WRRO
- A generic obfuscation framework for preventing ML-attacks on strong-PUFs through exploitation of DRAM-PUFs. 2023 IEEE 8th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) (pp 92-106). Delft, Netherlands, 3 July 2023 - 3 July 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Design rationale for symbiotically secure key management systems in IoT and beyond. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Vol. 1 (pp 583-591). Lisbon, Portugal, 22 February 2023 - 22 February 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Reinforcement-learning-based IDS for 6LoWPAN. 2021 IEEE 20th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) (pp 1049-1060). Shenyang, China, 20 October 2021 - 20 October 2021. View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- VFLGAN: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Network for Vertically Partitioned Data Publication, arXiv.
- Adaptive Hybrid Heterogeneous IDS for 6LoWPAN, arXiv.
- Reinforcement-Learning-Based IDS for 6LoWPAN, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Baiting AI: Deceptive Adversary Against AI-Protected Industrial Infrastructures. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-18.
- Grants
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- Hardware Root of Trust Reconsidered: Developing a Distributed Security Architecture to Protect Vulnerable Devices in the Semiconductor Supply Chain, EPSRC, 10/2025 - 03/2026, £72,208, as Co-PI
- CipherGrit: Real-time ransomware detection system using transfer-learning, Innovate UK, as Co-PI
- Phase 1: 04/2025 - 07/2025, £18,371
- Phase 2: 09/2025 - 02/2026, £31,472
- Secure Call: A Caller Authentication and Encrypted Communication Solution, Innovate UK, as Co-PI
- Phase 1: 04/2025 - 07/2025, £27,054
- Phase 2: 09/2025 - 02/2026, £54,521
- ATM II: Automated Threat Modelling for Enterprise AI-enabled Assets, Innovate UK, 10/2023 - 03/2024, £59,376, as PI
- ATM: Automated Threat Modelling for Enterprise AI-enabled Assets, Innovate UK, 05/2023 - 09/2023, £24,977, as PI
- ATDPS: Adaptive Trojan Detection and Prevention Systems for Networks-onChips (NoCs) - Phase II, Innovate UK, 09/2022 - 02/2023, £52,433, as Co-PI
- ATDPS: Adaptive Trojan Detection and Prevention Systems for Networks-on-Chips (NoCs), Innovate UK, 04/2022 - 07/2022, £22,316, as Co-PI