Saqib Hakak

Saqib Hakak received the Ph.D. degree in information security from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2018. He is an Assistant Professor with the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada. Having more than over five years of industrial and academic experience, he has received several Gold/Silver awards in international innovation competitions and is serving as the technical committee member/reviewer of several reputed conference/journal venues. His current research interests include Risk management, Fake news detection using AI, Security and Privacy concerns in IoE, Applications of Federated Learning in IoT, and blockchain technology.