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Dr Md Israfil Biswas

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MD ISRAFIL BISWAS is a Lecturer (equivalent to an Assistant Professor in the US) in the Department of Computing and Mathematics in the Computing Subject Group, Manchester Metropolitan University (Manmet). He is teaching both undergraduate and Postgraduate units, Israfil is the unit leader of an MSc Moodle, MSc Apprenticeship Program Lead for Cybersecurity, and leading several academic and industrial research projects. Dr. Israfil finished his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, UK in Communication Engineering, and among other research outputs, it has led to an Internet-Draft at IETF. He is an active member of Greater Manchester Cyber Foundry and works as a trained Independent Assessor on the UK degree apprenticeship program. 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 currently leading 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 Digital Futures 2010 at Horizon Digital Economy Research, UK, led innovator and project lead for several international projects.

Previously, he 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. Israfil 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 multimillion projects at Ulster University. Dr. Israfil also worked as a Research Fellow at the City University London on multimillion projects in collaboration with many industrial partners including The European Microsoft Innovation Center. Dr. Israfil 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. 

2023:

October: In-person Delegate, Professional & Financial Services Data Access Innovation Lab: ESG, 10 October 2023 – 12 October 2023 10:00-17:30, https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/251ba820-372d-4ffc-b20d-07df8c806058/su…

May: Paper S. Fayyaz, M. Atif Ur Rehman, M. Salah Ud Din, M. I. Biswas, A. K. Bashir and B. -S. Kim, “Information-Centric Mobile Networks: A Survey, Discussion, and Future Research Directions,” in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 40328-40372, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3268775.

March: Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Byung-Seo Kim, Ali Kashif Bashir, “An Analysis of Multicasting Optimisation Mechanisms for Intelligent Edge Computing with Low-Power and Lossy Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’23)  26–29 March 2023 // Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wireless Communications for Social Innovation

2022:

Session Chair: 2nd International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks- ICCCN’2022 (https://icccn.co.uk/), November 2022

Invited talk: Blockchain Based 6G Enabled Digital Twin Infrastructure, 4th Cybersecurity Education and Research Conference, Kuwait, October 2022

Paper: Al-Khalidi, Mohammed, Rabab Al-Zaidi, Ahmed M. Abubahia, Hari Mohan Pandey, Md Israfil Biswas, and Mohammad Hammoudeh. 2022. “Global IoT Mobility: A Path Based Forwarding Approach” Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 11, no. 3: 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan11030041

2021:

Patent: IPD Reference: A33866 – AN ARCHITECTURE FOR IOT ACTUATORS BASED ON SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT, British Telecom, 2021.

2019:

Paper: Md Israfil Biswas, Philip Morrow and Sally McClean, “Evaluation of a Cloud Management System for Live Migrations”, Journal of Computer and Communications (JCC), Vol.7 No.11, November 2019.

Mamun Abu-Tair, Philip Perry, Philip Morrow, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Gerard Parr, Md Israfil Biswas, “Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks”, Journal of Phonetics, Special Issue: Optical Space Switches in Data Centers: Issues with Transport Protocols, Feb, 2019.

2018:

Session Chair: The 20th IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2018), Exeter, UK.

2017:

Paper: Md. Israfil Biswas, Mamun Abu-Tair, Philip Morrow, Sally I McClean, Bryan W. Scotney and Gerard P. Parr, “A Dynamic Approach of MIB Polling for Software Defined Monitoring, Journal of Computer and Communications (JCC), Special Issue on “Cloud Computing”, March 2017.

2016:

Project Lead Presentation:  SDN security, CIAN NFS Site Visit, Columbia University, New York, 4-6 May 2016.

2014:

Project Lead Presentation: Cloud Orchestration, IU-ATC, Adastral Park, BT, Ipswich 2-4 July 2014

2013:

Project Lead Presentation/Demo: Industrial IoT at Work Implementers’ Workshop & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, Sept. 2013.

Paper: Israfil Biswas, “An Investigation on Large Initial Window (IW)”, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, John Wiley & Sons, VOL.31 NO.3, March 2013, pp. 111-121.

2012:

Workshop: Industrial IoT at Work Implementers’ Demonstration Workshop & Project Meeting, FIAT Research Centre, Turin, Italy, April 2012.

2011:

Internet-Draft/ Standardisation: G. Fairhurst, I. Biswas, “Updating TCP to support Variable-Rate Traffic”, IETF, Internet draft, 24 December 2011, URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-02.

Paper: I. Biswas and B. Walker, “An Intelligent Data Filtering Scheme for Real Time Monitoring of Physiological Traits,” International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2011, pp. 104-110. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.42013.

Memberships:

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Member, Membership No.97853905

ERDF GM Cyber Foundry, Member 

Bangladesh Computer Society, BCS, Status: Member, Membership No. M 01246.

Institute of Engineers Bangladesh, IEB, Status: Member, Membership No. M/23119.

Get in touch

0161 247 5256
E141 John Dalton Building

Impact

Funding/Grant Applications:

2010

  • Horizon Research hub at the University of Nottingham,

Project: PsychoFIZZ – Real-time Monitoring of Physiological Traits.

Funding Obtained: 10k 

Dr. Israfil Biswas received a grant on eHealth and the real-time monitoring project PsychoFIZZ - an open-source project in Python, funded by the Horizon Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham. He was the project lead and Innovator to contribute to the development of a filter class library for the project. The library helps to analyse medical data from sensor devices that are distributed across mobile networks to process, analyse, and visualise using a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Projects

Selected Project Contributions: 

2019:

  • The University of Bristol

Project: The ‘SPHERE IRC’ for the ‘Internet of Things (IoT) Networking

2018

  • British Telecom (BT) Ireland Innovation Center (BTIIC)

Project: Internet of Things for Data to Action

2014 -2018

  • India-UK, InvestNI, US-Ireland, Ulster University

Project: Digital Innovation Infrastructure for The Next-Generation Internet, Agile Cloud Services, and Orchestration

2012

  • The European Commission IoT@work

Project: EU F7 Internet of Things project IoT@Work (www.iot-at-work.eu).

Israfil was a Research Fellow at the City, the University of London in the Internet of Things EU F7 project. The project entails building open-source hardware and software platforms for connecting existing sensors and actuators. His research allowed him to contribute to the area of new and emerging technologies, and the desire to identify and develop compelling software-based applications. The research allowed him to contribute to real-time monitoring, verification, and security. He also worked on the ‘Cumulus’ project that ensures the network security of a distributed system by providing certificates to the cloud service provider. He had the experience to work in a cloud infrastructure that creates or modifies certification from the appropriate manager, verifies and checks the certificate issuer by communicating with the certificate generator, and provides feedback to the service provider.

2011

  • European Space Agency (ESA),

Project: HLS-MAC-Study.

2008

  • The European Commission IST Project “SatSix”,

Project: Developing new protocols for Satellite Networks and Multimedia Communications.

2007

  • EADS Astrium UK Ltd,

Project: Design a modular for Satellite Communication.

Teaching

Unit Leader/Teaching

Autumn’21-22

1. BSc- Computer Science L6: Computer Networks and Operating Systems 

Spring’ 21-22

1. MSc- Cyber Security L7:  Secure System Development (Unit Leader)

Autumn’22-23

1. BSc- Network and Internet Forensics (6G6Z113)

2. MSc- Advanced Computer Networks (6G7V0029)

Supervision

PhD

Current

[First Supervisor]

  1. Nana Kwesi Arkoh Onumah, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. 
  2. Abima Obim Abima, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. 

Research outputs

Career history

2007-2010

Post-graduate Scholarship

  • University of Aberdeen College of Physical Sciences,

Project: Investigation of Transport Protocols, Congestion Window Validation (CWV).

Dr. Israfil finished his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, UK in Communication Engineering, and among other research outputs it has led to an Internet-Draft at IETF. His research was to investigate Internet protocols, developing new protocols for Satellite Networks and Multimedia Communications. He is experienced in Software development to simultaneously work on a centralized project using SVN, coding using C/C++ and Tcl in a Linux-based network simulator (ns-2). He also has experience to do experiments by emulating real networks in the ERG laboratory using ‘Netem’ and virtual machine VMWare. Dr. Israfil worked on many projects that focus on analyzing and proposing solutions to improve the performance of various congestion control protocols mainly TCP over satellite and wireless networks (WLL). He worked as a teaching assistant and Lab Demonstrator for Undergrad students at the School of Engineering, School of Computer Science, and School of Physics.

Industry-based Training/ Selected Certifications:

Cisco Network Academy Program CCNA certification, “Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)”.