Scholar
Vishal Sharma
Google Scholar ID: 7whtsiEAAAAJ
Queen's University Belfast, UK
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,408
H-index
42
i10-index
103
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Best Student Paper Award, HUCAPP/VISIGRAPP, Porto, Portugal
- 2024: Best Paper Award, IEEE SITE 2024, Athens, Greece
- 2024: Best Paper Award, IEEE IWCMC, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
- 2024: Best Paper Award, EAI INISCOM, Da Nang, Vietnam
- 2024: QUB Individual Performance Award and EEECS PGR (SPRC) Paper Award
- 2023: Best Paper Award, IEEE CAMAD 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2023: Best Paper Award, IEEE IWCMC 2023, Morocco
- 2023: EEECS Staff and Leadership Charter Award (Category: Ambition)
- 2023: Exhibitor at CYBERUK'23 Innovation Zone; graduated from CyberASAP
- 2022: Queen's Merit Award for Fellowship (FHEA); participant in CyberASAP'22 cybersecurity academic startup program
- 2021: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member; appointed Editor for ICT Express (Elsevier)
- 2020: Best research paper award from Thapar University for PhD work (Alma mater award)
- 2020: IEEE ComSoc listed his article among 'Best Readings in UAV Assisted Wireless Networks' (Topic: Interference Mitigation and Drone Deployment)
Background
- Currently Reader in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), UK
- Research interests include cyber defence and AI security, network and wireless security, distributed ledger technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and digital twins
- Affiliated with QUB’s Centre for Intelligent Sustainable Computation (CISC) and Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)
- Director of the Innovation-by-design Lab and Research Reputation & Culture Champion at EEECS
- Serves on the Royal Society International Exchanges Committee and is Co-Investigator for the Northern Ireland Advanced Research and Engineering Centre (ARC)
- Senior Member of IEEE, Professional Member of ACM, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Miscellany
- Led BCS Accreditation for QUB and chaired the Computer Science Programme Review Working Group
- Served as Co-Chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
- Served as Racial Equity Network School Co-Champion at QUB
- 2024: Received SEDA Leading Undergraduate Programmes Certification
- 2025: Appointed External Examiner for School Assessment Boards for Applied & Business Computing at UWS, UK
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