Narmeen Shafqat
(she/her/hers)
PhD Student
Education
- MS in Information Security, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
- BS in Electrical Telecom Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
About Me
- Hometown: Islamabad, Pakistan
- Field of Study: Cybersecurity
- PhD Advisor: Aanjhan Ranganathan
Biography
Narmeen is pursuing a PhD in Cybersecurity at Northeastern University in Boston, MA under the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Program. She is also a recipient of a 2019 DKG World Fellowship Award. Narmeen received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical (Telecommunication) in 2013 and her master’s degree in Information Security in 2016 from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan with a gold medal.
She started her professional career as a research fellow/team lead with a national R&D organization, and later served as a lecturer in the Department of Information Security at NUST, Pakistan for 3 years. During her service at NUST, she also held the position of Coordinator for Pakistan’s first National Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation Lab (NCSAEL-NUST).
Narmeen has acquired several international trainings in the domain of Information Security, particularly Information Design Assurance Red Team (IDART) from Sandia National Laboratories, USA, and Cyber Executive Training from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA.
What is your research about?
My research revolves around the security and privacy analysis of Internet of Things (IoT) based networking protocols, namely Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). I'm exploring what sort of sensitive information is leaked when these devices communicate and how these privacy leakages can be prevented.
Recent Publications
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Analytical study of hardware-rooted security standards and their implementation techniques in mobile
Citation: N. Ashraf, A. Masood, H. Abbas, R. Latif, N. Shafqat, "Analytical study of hardware-rooted security standards and their implementation techniques in mobile", in Telecommunication Systems, Springer, 2020 -
Integrated Security, Safety, and Privacy Risk Assessment Framework for Medical Devices
Citation: T. Yaqoob, H. Abbas, N. Shafqat, "Integrated Security, Safety, and Privacy Risk Assessment Framework for Medical Devices", in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019 -
A Framework to Determine Applications’ Authenticity
Citation: R. Zojaj, H. Abbas, N. Shafqat, "Framework for calculating Applications authenticity using free tools" in the 16th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC), Elsevier, 2019
