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Dr. Amna Qureshi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Oct 2021 - Present

University of Bradford

Bradford

United Kingdom

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Dr. Amna Qureshi is an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bradford. Before joining the University of Bradford, Amna worked as a Senior Researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Her research area is cybersecurity, mainly focused on designing and developing secure and privacy-preserving protocols within distributed systems and future networking technologies, including IoT, cloud computing, and blockchain. She is an active researcher with 25+ peer-reviewed journals and international conferences in systems security and privacy. She is also a reviewer of articles in various JCR-indexed scientific journals and a programme committee member at various international conferences. In 2018, she received an advanced cybersecurity research team excellence grant from the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) to perform research in the sphere of cybersecurity.

  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Identity & Access Management
  • IoT Security
  • Privacy Preservation
  • Cyberbullying Detection 
  • Clement Daah, Amna Qureshi, Irfan Awan and Savas Konur, "Simulation-based evaluation of advanced threat detection and response in financial industry networks using zero trust and blockchain technology", published in Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Vol. 138, 2025.
  • Clement Daah, Amna Qureshi, Irfan Awan and Savas Konur, "Enhancing Zero Trust Models in the Financial Industry through Blockchain Integration: A Proposed Framework", published in Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 5, 2024.
  • Morteza Sheibani, Savas Konur, Irfan Awan, and Amna Qureshi, "A Multi-Layered Defence Strategy against DDoS Attacks in SDN/NFV-Based 5G Mobile Networks", published in Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2024.
  • Amna Qureshi and David Megías, "Blockchain-Based Multimedia Content Protection: Review and Open Challenges", published in Applied Sciences, Impact factor: 2.474, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-24, 2021.
  • Amna Qureshi, Victor Garcia-Font, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "Collaborative and Efficient Privacy-Preserving Critical Incident Management System", published in Expert Systems with Applications, Impact factor: 5.452, Vol. 163, pp. 1-26, 2021.
  • David Megías, Minoru Kuribayashi and Amna Qureshi, "Survey on Decentralized Fingerprinting Solutions: Copyright Protection through Piracy Tracing", published in Computers, Indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Vol. 9, No. 26, pp. 1-19, 2020.
  • Jordi Serra-Ruiz, Amna Qureshi and David Megías, "Entropy-based Semi-fragile Watermarking of Remote Sensing Images in the Wavelet Domain", published in Entropy: Special Issue, Entropy Based Data Hiding, Impact factor: 2.494, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 1–21, 2019.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "SeVEP: Secure and Verifiable Electronic Polling System", published in IEEE Access, Impact factor: 4.098, Vol. 7, pp. 19266-19290, 2019.
  • David Megías and Amna Qureshi, "Collusion-Resistant and Privacy-Preserving P2P Multimedia Distribution based on Recombined Fingerprinting", published in Expert Systems with Applications, Impact factor: 3.928, Vol. 71, pp. 147–172, 2017.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "PSUM: Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Content Distribution using Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting", published in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Impact factor: 3.50, Vol. 66, pp. 180–197, 2016.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "Framework for Preserving Security and Privacy in Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Systems", published in Expert Systems with Applications, Impact factor: 2.331, Vol. 42, pp. 1391–1408, 2015.
  • Nikhil Rane and Amna Qureshi, "Comparative Analysis of Automated Scanning and Manual Penetration Testing for Enhanced Cybersecurity", 12th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS), San Antonio, TX, USA, pp. 1-6, April 2024.
  • Clement Daah, Amna Qureshi, Omar Adalat, Irfan Awan and Savas Konur, "Advancing IAM in the Finance Sector by Integrating Zero Trust and Blockchain Technology", published in proceedings of Younas, M., Awan, I., Petcu, D., Feng, B. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2024, Vol. 14792 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 83-99, August 2024.
  • Clement Daah, Amna Qureshi, and Irfan Awan, ”Zero Trust Model Implementation Considerations in Financial Institutions: A Proposed Framework", published in proceedingsof The 10th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, Marrakesh, Morrocco, pp. 71-77, August 2023.
  • Oluwapelumi Fakolujo and Amna Qureshi, ”Analysis of Detection Systems in a Software-Defined Network”, published in proceedings of Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing(SAI 2023), Vol. 739 of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer, pp. 1342-1363, June 2023.
  • Sara Khan and Amna Qureshi, ”Cyberbullying Detection in Urdu Language using Machine Learning”, published in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE 22), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2022.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías, and Minoru Kuribayashi,"Detecting Deepfake Videos using Digital Watermarking", published in proceedings of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-2021), pp. 1786-1793, Dec. 2021.
  • Farzana Kabir, Amna Qureshi and David Megías, "A Study on Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Techniques for Secure Smart Metering System", published in proceedings of XVI Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (RECSI-21), pp. 113-118, Apr. 2021.
  • Amna Qureshi, Muhammad Shahwaiz Afaqui and Julián Salas, "IoTFC: A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Smart Buildings", published in proceedings of Wang, Ding, Meng, Weizhi, Han, Jinguang (eds.), 3rd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments (SPNCE-20), Springer, pp. 102-119, Jan. 2021.
  • Amna Qureshi and David Megías, "Blockchain-based P2P Multimedia Content Distribution using Collusion-resistant Fingerprinting", published in proceedings of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-19), pp. 1606-1615, Nov. 2019.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "VSPReP: Verifiable, Secure and Privacy-Preserving Remote Polling with Untrusted Computing Devices", published in proceedings of Doss, Robin, Piramuthu, Selwyn, Zhou, Wei (eds.), Future Network Systems and Security (FNSS-18), Vol. 878 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, pp. 61-79, Jul. 2018.
  • Amna Qureshi, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "A Survey on Incident Reporting and Management Systems", published in proceedings of XV Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (RECSI-18), pp. 153-158, Oct. 2018.
  • Amna Qureshi, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "Enabling Collaborative Privacy in User-Generated Emergency Reports", published in proceedings of Domingo-Ferrer, J. (ed.) Privacy in Statistical Databases (PSD 2016), Vol. 9867 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 255-271, Sept. 2016.
  • Amna Qureshi, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "State-of-the-art, Challenges and Open Issues in the Integration of Security and Privacy in P2P Content Distribution Systems", published in proceedings of IEEE 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM-16), pp. 1–9, Sept. 2016.
  • David Megías and Amna Qureshi, "Enhanced Collusion-Resistance for Segment-Wise Recombined Fingerprinting in P2P Distribution Systems", published in proceedings of ACM 4th Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC-16), pp. 181–182, Jun. 2016.
  • Amna Qureshi, Jordi Casas-Roma, David Megías and Helena Rifà-Pous, "Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Using Anonymous Fingerprinting-Proof of Concept", published in proceedings of XIV Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (RECSI-16), pp. 203–208, Oct. 2016.
  • Amna Qureshi, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "Electronic Payment and Encouraged Cooperation in a Secure and Privacy-Preserving P2P Content Distribution System", published in proceedings of 7th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA-15), pp. 8–14, Feb. 2015 Best Paper Award.
  • Amna Qureshi, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "Secure and Anonymous Multimedia Content Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks", published in proceedings of 6th International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA-14), pp. 91–96, Feb. 2014.
  • Amna Qureshi, Helena Rifà-Pous and David Megías, "Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Legal Distribution of Copyrighted Multimedia Content over Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Brief Overview", published in proceedings of 5th International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES–13), pp. 583–587, Nov. 2013.
  • Muhammad Shahwaiz Afaqui and Amna Qureshi, "A Review of Channel Dependent Scheduling in Wireless Networks", published in proceedings of IEEE International Multitopic Conference (INMIC-12), pp. 13–15, Dec. 2012.
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