Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma is a senior lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, UK. At QUB, he focuses on cyber defence and security and leads research on drone security, digital twins (DT), and blockchain systems. Since 2022, he has been affiliated with the Global Innovation Institute as a fellow and works with the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) and the Centre for Intelligent...See more

Vishal Sharma is a senior lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, UK. At QUB, he focuses on cyber defence and security and leads research on drone security, digital twins (DT), and blockchain systems. Since 2022, he has been affiliated with the Global Innovation Institute as a fellow and works with the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) and the Centre for Intelligent Sustainable Computing (CISC). He is the director of the Innovation-by-design lab at QUB. He leads the British Computer Society (BCS) Accreditation for QUB and is the chair of the Computer Science Programme Review Working Group. He is the co-investigator for the Northern Ireland Advanced Research and Engineering Centre (ARC). He has authored/co-authored more than 140 journal/conference articles and book chapters, co-edited four books and won seven best paper awards. He has served on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine and as section editor-in-chief of Drones journal. Currently, he serves as associate editor of CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology , IET Networks , and ICT Express . He is also the co-chair of the IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. He is a senior member of IEEE and a professional member of ACM. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar University, India. See less