Syed Hamid Hasan

Research

Three decades across AI, big-data analytics, and information security.

Research focus

Six active threads across the published work.

  • AI & Big-Data Analytics

    Predictive modeling and analytics over large, real-world datasets.

  • Machine & Deep Learning

    Forecasting, detection, and classification with LSTM, CNN, GAN, and attention-based models.

  • Information Security & Cryptography

    Intrusion and attack detection, authentication protocols, signature schemes, and cryptanalysis.

  • Cloud & Distributed Computing

    Secure, cost-aware task scheduling and containerized / HPC workloads.

  • IoT Security

    Attack and phishing detection for connected and industrial systems.

  • AI Governance

    Ethics, policy, and institutional strategy for safe deployment of AI systems.

Appointments & leadership

Four institutions across three countries over three decades.

  1. Early career · New Delhi, India

    Jamia Millia Islamia

    Faculty, Department of Computer Science

    Teaching and early research in computing — the start of three decades in academia.

  2. Oct 1979 – Jan 1997 · 17 yrs 4 mos · Aligarh, India

    Aligarh Muslim University

    Founding Chairman, Department of Computer Science

    Established the computer science department and shaped its early curriculum, faculty, and graduate programs.

  3. Oct 1997 – Nov 2010 · 13 yrs 2 mos · Oman

    Musannah College of Technology

    Head, Department of Information Technology

    Led the Information Technology department through curriculum build-out, faculty recruitment, and NCAAA quality assurance.

  4. Oct 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 1 mo · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    King Abdulaziz University

    Professor & Founding Chairman, Department of Computer Science

    Led KAU computing programs to full ABET accreditation with Distinction (6-year term) in 2012 and again in 2018; currently supervising doctoral and master's candidates.

Doctoral supervision & mentoring

  • 2 PhD theses supervised to completion (solar/wind energy forecasting; few-shot Arabic short-text topic detection).
  • Currently supervising 2 PhD and 2 master's candidates.
  • 30+ master's dissertations supervised across India, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.
  • External examiner for 15 PhD theses (Aligarh Muslim University; Bharathiar University).
  • Member, Information Security Research Group, Faculty of Computing & IT, KAU.

Accreditation & quality assurance

  • Director / Lead Chair, ABET & NCAAA accreditation — FCIT, KAU (2010–present) and Faculty of IT, UTAS/Musannah College of Technology, Oman (1997–2009).
  • Led KAU computing programs to full ABET accreditation with Distinction (6-year term) in Nov 2012 and again Nov 2018.

Research funding

Awarded research grants at King Abdulaziz University.

Project Agency Period Amount Status
Non-interactive deniable authentication protocol (generalized ECDSA) KAU — Distinct Scientific Study 2011–2012 $1,400 Completed
Information retrieval from e-learning repositories KAU — Distinct Scientific Study 2012–2013 $1,400 Completed
Intrusion traffic generation via deep learning to reduce IDS accuracy KAU — Distinct Scientific Study 2013–2014 $2,000 Completed
Malware triggering using steganography KAU — Distinct Scientific Study 2014–2015 $3,000 Completed
Strategic Technologies Program (e-learning) KAU — Strategic Technologies 2015–2016 $4,000 Completed
Secure platform-independent mobile-learning tool KAU — Distinct Scientific Study 2017–2020 $35,000 Completed