Ali Ahmed

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Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Engineering and Computer Science

Dr Ali Ahmed
Professional Teaching Fellow
LCHE, PhD, MSc, BSc (Computer Science)

I am currently Deputy International Coordinator that ensures a speedy response to new initiatives, proactive support to our international students (both here and offshore). The role also explores new opportunities to increase our international student numbers and improve their student experience.

Teaching

I am the course coordinator for SWEN502

I teach/taught the following course:

COMP102, COMP103, NWEN243, NWEN438, SWEN439 

I also teach the following Master of Software Development (MSWDev) Courses:

Research Interests

Trust and Access Control in Smart Environments, Teaching Computer Science in UG/PG degrees, Software Engineering and Usable Security, and Mobile Computing

Publication

  • [Journal 2021] Daan Storm van Leeuwen, Ali Ahmed, Craig Watterson, and Nilufar Baghae. "Contact Tracing: Ensuring Privacy and Security". Accepted in Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 9977. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11219977.
  • [Journal 2021] Lou Reddy, Nilufar Baghaei, Hayo Reinders, Ali Ahmed, and Sedigheh Abbasnasab Sardareh. "Persuasion via gamification: Supporting Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) School‐Wide pedagogy". Set: Research Information for Teachers (Set 2021) no. 2. https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0200.
  • [Conference 2021] Ali Ahmed, Craig Watterson, Karsten Lundqvist, and Jennifer Ferreira, "Online Student Supervision: A Reflective Study on Lessons and Challenges". Accepted in the Frontiers in Education (FIE). October 13-16, 2021, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. (https://www.fie2021.org)
  • [Conference 2021] Carlo Farinella, Ali Ahmed, and Craig Watterson, "Git Leaks: Boosting Detection Effectiveness Through Endpoint Visibility". Accepted in the 20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom2021), Shenyang, China, 18 Aug 2021 - 20 Aug 2021 (https://trustcom2021.sau.edu.cn).
  • [Conference 2021] Simon Applebaum, Tarek Gaber, and Ali Ahmed, “Signature-based and Machine-Learning-based Web Application Firewall: A short survey”. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 189, 2021, pp. 359-367,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.105.
  • [Conference 2020] Ali Ahmed, Craig Watterson, Nilufar Baghaei, and Karsten Lundqvist. Distance Learning Practices: A Reflective Study. Accepted in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computers in Education. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ICCE2020).[Conference 2020] Wisanoo Boonrat, Vimita Vaidya, Nilufar Baghaei, Hamid Sharifzadeh, and Ali Ahmed. Enhancing Customers’ Knowledge and Decision Making using Augmented Reality. Accepted in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computers in Education. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ICCE2020).
  • [Conference 2020] Ali Ahmed, Karsten Lundqvist, Craig Watterson, and Nilufar Baghaei. Teaching Cyber-Security for Distance Learners: A Reflective Study. Accepted in Frontiers in Education 2020 (FIE2020).
  • [Conference 2020] Yousef Ballan, Ali Ahmed, and Nilufar Baghaei. LAMCO: A Layered Approach to Mobile Application Computation Offloading. 2020 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), Limassol, Cyprus, 2020, pp. 1336-1341, doi: 10.1109/IWCMC48107.2020.9148493.
  • [Journal 2020] Philipp Tschannen and Ali Ahmed. “Bitcoin’s APIs in Open-Source Projects: Security Usability Evaluation”, Electronics 2020. Volume 9, Issue 7, 1077. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/7/1077
  • [Conference 2020] Philipp Tschannen and Ali Ahmed. 2020. On the Evaluation of the Security Usability of Bitcoin’s APIs. In Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'20), April 15–17, 2020, Trondheim, Norway. ACM, New York, NY, USA. PP. 405–412. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383219.3383277
  • [Conference 2020] Tarek Gaber, Ali Ahmed, and Amira Mostafa. 2020. PrivDRM: A Privacy-preserving Secure Digital Right Management System. In Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'20), April 15–17, 2020, Trondheim, Norway. ACM, New York, NY, USA. pp. 481–486. https://doi.org/10.1145/3383219.3383289 .
  • [Conference 2019] K. Lundqvist, A. Ahmed, D. Fridman and J. Bernard, "Interdisciplinary Agile Teaching," 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Covington, KY, USA, 2019, pp. 1-8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028544.
The full list can be found at ORCID

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