My profile

Biography

Dr Mohammed Al-Khalidi is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and MSc Cyber Security Course Leader at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of the British Computer Society. His past assignments include Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, and Research Officer at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, where he also received his PhD degree. Prior to that, he worked in industry as a Telecommunications Engineer at several leading mobile telecommunication companies in the Middle East & north Africa. He has more than ten years of industrial experience in mobile core network performance optimization. 

Interests and expertise

Academic and professional qualifications

  • PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering.
  • MSc in Software Engineering.
  • BSc in Computer and Software Engineering.

Professional Qualifications:

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
  • Cisco Certified Information Security Specialist. 
  • Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA): Security Fundamentals. 

Membership of professional associations

  • Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE).
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 
  • Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).

Research outputs

IoT mobility management and security with focus on secure and reliable IoT mobility architectures and protocols.

Research interests include: Network Security, IoT services and applications, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Information Centric Networks, Network Coding, multimedia and content delivery architectures, and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.