Professor Mohammed Benaissa
PhD, Dip.Ing
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor of Information Engineering
Director of Learning and Teaching (Student Experience); DET member
Communications Research Group
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- Profile
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After graduating with a Dip.Ing degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a short stint in industry, I embarked on a PhD in VLSI Signal Processing where I investigated algorithms and circuit architectures for the VLSI implementation of Digital Signal Processing operations based on the Number Theoretic Transforms.
My PhD research, subsequently, led to an interest in applications of number theory in communication systems, cryptography, signal processing and in various aspects of electronic system design, such as, design automation, high performance and low-power. These were further developed via various industrial secondments and consultancies.
I have maintained interest in finite number systems, as well as, in error control coding, in particular in their application to secure and fault-tolerant design.
I have a strong interest in hardware cryptography in terms of challenging the design space of cryptography primitives to enable scalability, security and privacy across domains of application.
Healthcare technology translational research dominates my current research activity which revolves around technology and decision support for diabetes management using a data driven behavioural approach. Over the last 7 years, we have co-created the WithCare+/Glucollector technology platform, to facilitate the collection, management and automated interpretation of diabetes patient self-care data, to provide clues for behavioural interventions. The platform has already been deployed successfully with over 270 people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and 40 Healthcare professionals (HCPs) across 6 NHS trusts within the DAFNEplus Randomised Control Trial (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/research/centres/ctru/dafneplus).
The platform is being further developed via a Healthy Ageing grant (ES/V009796/1) to integrate physical activity (PA) and cognitive data (https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/winners/integrated-technology-platform-to-support-optimal-management-of-ageing-with-diabetes/)
Current collaboration with the Design Age Institute (DAI) at the Royal College of Art is improving the inclusivity of the technology platform
I have published over 160 papers and successfully supervised over 25 PhDs. I received a best paper award for the work on secure and privacy aware RFIDs, an innovation prize award for work on a Diabetes monitoring system, and a granted Patent on WithCare+ ((Patent GB 2467079) .I have acted as External Examiner for computer science and information systems undergraduate courses at Birkbeck (University of London) and examined over 20 PhDs.
I have served on numerous TPCs for conferences, sat on several research funding panels and acted as External reviewer of research.
I am currently the department director of student experience and a member of the department's executive team.
- Qualifications
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- PhD
- Dip.Ing
- Research interests
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- Design and implementation of cryptosystems
- Design and implementation of error-control coding systems
- Reconfigurable hardware design
- Healthcare engineering
- Galois fields arithmetic circuits
- Residue number systems
- Publications
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Journal articles
- High-speed polynomials multiplication HW accelerator for CRYSTALS-Kyber. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 1-9. View this article in WRRO
- In Vitro Glucose Measurement from NIR and MIR Spectroscopy: Comprehensive Benchmark of Machine Learning and Filtering Chemometrics. Heliyon, 10(10), e30981-e30981.
- Blood glucose level time series forecasting: nested deep ensemble learning lag fusion. Bioengineering, 10(4).
- Automatic inference of hypoglycemia causes in type 1 diabetes: a feasibility study. Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 4.
- Causality analysis in type 1 diabetes mellitus with application to blood glucose level prediction. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 153, 106535-106535.
- Interpretable machine learning for inpatient COVID-19 mortality risk assessments: diabetes mellitus exclusive interplay. Sensors, 22(22). View this article in WRRO
- Signal fragmentation based feature vector generation in a model agnostic framework with application to glucose quantification using absorption spectroscopy. Talanta, 243. View this article in WRRO
- COVID-19 mortality risk assessments for individuals with and without diabetes mellitus : machine learning models integrated with interpretation framework. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 144. View this article in WRRO
- Blood glucose level prediction : advanced deep-ensemble learning approach. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
- Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the DAFNEplus (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating) intervention compared with 5x1 DAFNE : a lifelong approach to promote effective self-management in adults with type 1 diabetes. BMJ Open, 11(1). View this article in WRRO
- A deep neural network application for improved prediction of HbA1c in type 1 diabetes. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. View this article in WRRO
- Classification before regression for improving the accuracy of glucose quantification using absorption spectroscopy. Talanta. View this article in WRRO
- Digital bandstop filtering in the quantitative analysis of glucose from near‐infrared and midinfrared spectra. Journal of Chemometrics, 34(3).
- LOW COST SDR RECEIVER IMPLEMENTATION USING RTL-SDR DONGLE. Telecommunications and Radio Engineering, 78(8), 691-705.
- A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints. PLoS ONE, 14(5). View this article in WRRO
- Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer Based on Generalized Triangular Decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. View this article in WRRO
- Nearby Carrier Detection Based on Low Cost RTL-SDR Front End. Wireless Personal Communications, 108(4), 2341-2358.
- Miniaturized half‐mode SIW band‐pass filter design integrating dumbbell DGS cells. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 61(6), 1473-1477.
- High Speed and Low Latency ECC Implementation over GF(2m) on FPGA. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 25(1), 165-176. View this article in WRRO
- Throughput/Area-efficient ECC Processor Using Montgomery Point Multiplication on FPGA. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 62(11), 1078-1082. View this article in WRRO
- Local linear embedded regression in the quantitative analysis of glucose in near infrared spectra. Analytical Methods, 7(4), 1484-1492. View this article in WRRO
- Support vector regression with digital band pass filtering for the quantitative analysis of near-infrared spectra. Journal of Chemometrics.
- Multiple parallel concatenated gallager codes: Code design and decoding techniques. IETE Journal of Research, 59(6), 659-664.
- Error detecting AES using polynomial residue number systems. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 37(2), 228-234. View this article in WRRO
- Low cost universal remote patient monitoring system. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012, 1587-1591.
- Determination of glucose concentration from near-infrared spectra using locally weighted partial least square regression. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 6169-6171.
- Low area memory-free FPGA implementation of the AES algorithm. Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012, 623-626.
- Tele-healthcare for diabetes management: A low cost automatic approach. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 1290-1293.
- Frequency self deconvolution in the quantitative analysis of near infrared spectra.. Anal Chim Acta, 705(1-2), 135-147.
- A novel architecture of implementing error detecting AES using PRNS. Proceedings - 2011 14th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2011, 667-673.
- Flexible and low cost embedded platform for remote web monitoring and control of camera, sensors and actuators. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 121 LNEE, 449-455.
- Coupling subband decomposition and independent component regression for quantitative NIR spectroscopy. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 108(2), 112-122.
- Algorithms and pipeline architectures for 2-D FFT and FFT-like transforms. DIGIT SIGNAL PROCESS, 20(4), 1072-1086.
- Determination of glucose concentration from near-infrared spectra using principle component regression coupled with digital bandpass filter. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS: Design and Implementation, 243-248.
- A holistic approach examining RFID design for security and privacy. Journal of Supercomputing, 1-21. View this article in WRRO
- A scalable hardware/software co-design for elliptic curve cryptography on picoblaze microcontroller. ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Nano-Bio Circuit Fabrics and Systems, 2111-2114.
- A scalable block cipher design using filter banks over finite fields. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 1810-1813.
- Small footprint implementations of scalable ECC point multiplication on FPGA. IEEE International Conference on Communications.
- Flexible hardware/software co-design for scalable elliptic curve cryptography for low-resource applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 285-288.
- Embedded software design of scalable low-area elliptic-curve cryptography. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 1(2), 42-45.
- A low-frequency RFID to challenge security and pnvacy concerns. 2009 IEEE 6th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems, MASS '09, 856-863.
- Secure and privacy aware RFIDs. 2009 4th International Design and Test Workshop, IDT 2009.
- Concurrent error detection in GF(2(m)) multiplication and its application in elliptic curve cryptography. IET CIRC DEVICE SYST, 2(3), 289-297.
- Fast elliptic curve cryptoaraphy on FPGA. IEEE T VLSI SYST, 16(2), 198-205.
- Fast parallel-prefix architectures for modulo 2(n)-1 addition with a single representation of zero. IEEE T COMPUT, 56(11), 1484-1492.
- Novel power-delay-area-efficient approach to generic modular addition. IEEE T CIRCUITS-I, 54(6), 1279-1292.
- Fast modulo 2(n)-(2(n-2)+1) addition: A new class of adder for RNS. IEEE T COMPUT, 56(4), 572-576.
- Pipelined AES on FPGA with support for feedback modes (in a multi-channel environment). IET INFORM SECUR, 1(1), 1-10.
- Reconfigurable hardware architectures for sequential and hybrid decoding. IEEE T CIRCUITS-I, 54(3), 555-565.
- Efficient new approach for modulo 2(n)-1 addition in RNS. IEE P-COMPUT DIG T, 153(6), 399-405.
- Flexible GF(2(m)) arithmetic architectures for subword parallel processing ASIPs. IEE P-COMPUT DIG T, 153(5), 291-301.
- Design of flexible GF(2(m)) elliptic curve cryptography processors. IEEE T VLSI SYST, 14(6), 659-662.
- Power-delay-area efficient modulo 2(n)+1 adder architecture for RNS. ELECTRON LETT, 41(5), 231-232.
- Iterative decoding with a hamming thresholdfor block turbo-codes. IEEE COMMUN LETT, 8(9), 567-569.
- Adaptive combined chase-GMD algorithms for block codes. IEEE COMMUN LETT, 8(4), 235-237.
- Adaptive Chase algorithm for block turbo codes. ELECTRON LETT, 39(7), 617-619.
- On-line reconfigurable hardware implementations for FEC and cryptography: A primitive-based domain approach. IET Seminar Digest, 2003(1).
- Is elevated plasma lactate a useful marker in the evaluation of pure carbon monoxide poisoning?. Intensive Care Medicine, 29(8), 1372-1375.
- Expression of the lactotransferrin receptor during the differentiation process of the megakaryocyte Dami cell line.. Biol Cell, 82(2-3), 149-159.
- High-resolution transmission electron microscopy on silicon carbide whiskers. Interface Science, 1(2), 91-98.
- Corrigendum: Automatic inference of hypoglycemia causes in type 1 diabetes: a feasibility study. Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 4.
- Integer Based Fully Homomorphic DSP Accelerator using Weighted-Number Theoretic Transform. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 30(3), 362-371.
- Analysis of real‐world capillary blood glucose data to help reduce
HbA1c and hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetes: evidence in favour of using percentage of readings in target and coefficient of variation. Diabetic Medicine. - Sammon’s mapping regression for the quantitative analysis of glucose from both mid infrared and near infrared spectra. Analytical Methods.
- Robust Eye Blink Detection Based on Eye Landmarks and Savitzky–Golay Filtering. Information, 9(4), 93-93.
Chapters
- CHAPTER 5. Glucose Chemistry, Food and Nutritional Components in Focus (pp. 77-85). Royal Society of Chemistry
- CHAPTER 17. Assay of Glucose Using Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy, Food and Nutritional Components in Focus (pp. 286-306). Royal Society of Chemistry
Conference proceedings papers
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator Using DSP Embedded Multiplier. 2023 15th International Conference on Computer Research and Development (ICCRD), 10 January 2023 - 12 January 2023.
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- Hilbert Huang Transformation with filtering as a pre-treatment method for the quantitative study of glucose in near infrared spectra. 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 20 July 2020 - 24 July 2020.
- Depression Detection From Eye Blink Features. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 6 December 2018 - 8 December 2018.
- Wireless Information and Power Transfer Based on Generalized Triangular Decomposition. 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 9 December 2018 - 13 December 2018.
- Transceiver Design for Data Rate Maximization of MIMO SWIPT System Based on Generalized Triangular Decomposition. 2018 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 18 October 2018 - 20 October 2018.
- A Comparison of Different Dynamic Routing Protocols in FANETs. 2018 International Conference on Applied Smart Systems (ICASS), 24 November 2018 - 25 November 2018.
- Low cost RTL-SDR based receiver to monitor neighboring 3MHz-2GHz frequency activities. 2018 International Conference on Signal, Image, Vision and their Applications (SIVA), 26 November 2018 - 27 November 2018.
- Improved Support Vector Regression Coupled with Fourier Self-Deconvolution in the Quantitative Analysis of Glucose in NIR Spectra. 2018 9th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), 23 July 2018 - 25 July 2018.
- Efficient coding Method of Multiple Parallel Concatenated Gallager Codes for WiMAX. 2018 Wireless Advanced (WiAd), 26 June 2018 - 28 June 2018.
- Accelerating Integer Based Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Frequency Domain Multiplication (pp 161-176)
- Pre-processing to Enhance the Quantitative Analysis of Glucose from NIR and MIR Spectra (pp 41-44)
- Eye Blink Detection Using Facial Features Tracker. Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications 2017 - ICBRA 2017, 8 December 2017 - 10 December 2017.
- Detecting and Predicting Alzheimer's Disease Severity in Longitudinal Acoustic Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications 2017 - ICBRA 2017, 8 December 2017 - 10 December 2017.
- Coupling Scatter Correction with bandpass filtering for preprocessing in the quantitative analysis of glucose from near infrared spectra. 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 11 July 2017 - 15 July 2017.
- Parallel Implementation of ECC Point Multiplication on a Homogeneous Multi-Core Microcontroller. 2016 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 16 December 2016 - 18 December 2016.
- Savitzky-golay coupled with digital bandpass filtering as a pre-processing technique in the quantitative analysis of glucose from near infrared spectra. 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 16 August 2016 - 20 August 2016.
- Parallel comba multiplication in GF(2163) using homogenous multicore microcontroller. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 6 December 2015 - 9 December 2015.
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- Improving the prediction performance of PLSR using RReliefF and FSD for the quantitative analysis of glucose in Near Infrared spectra. 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 25 August 2015 - 29 August 2015.
- High speed ECC implementation on FPGA over GF(2m). 2015 25th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2 September 2015 - 4 September 2015.
- Low area ECC implementation on FPGA. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (pp 581-584) View this article in WRRO
- Low area ECC implementation on FPGA. 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 8 December 2013 - 11 December 2013.
- Very small FPGA application-specific instruction processor for AES. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, Vol. 53(7) (pp 1477-1486)
- Simple and robust audio-based detection of biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. SLPAT 2016 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Preprints
- High-speed polynomials multiplication HW accelerator for CRYSTALS-Kyber. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 1-9. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
- Research students
Student Degree Status Primary/Secondary Abdelaal A M M PhD Graduated Primary Al-Mbaideen A A M PhD Graduated Primary
Chelton W PhD Graduated Primary Chu J PhD Graduated Primary Fan D PhD Graduated Primary Good T R PhD Graduated Primary Hassan M N PhD Graduated Primary Kanakis A PhD Graduated Primary Khan Z U A PhD Graduated Primary Lim W M PhD Graduated Primary Malik B PhD Graduated Primary Patchava K PhD Graduated Primary Patel R A PhD Graduated Primary Saraireh S S PhD Graduated Primary Zhu Y PhD Graduated Primary Arbi A S PhD Graduated Secondary Patchava K PhD Graduated Secondary Wang Y PhD Graduated Secondary Zhu S PhD Graduated Secondary