Postdoc & PhD in Computer Science from University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

August 2025 to date: Faculty Lecturer (Computer Science) at Wenzhou-Kean University, China.

May 2024 to December 2024: Associate Professor (Computer Science) at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), MG, Brazil.

November 2016 to August 2025: Assistant\Associate Professor (Computer Science) at CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan.

A distinguished academic and researcher in the field of Computer Science with extensive international experience in teaching, research, and academic administration. Currently serves as a Faculty Lecturer in Computer Science at Wenzhou-Kean University, China. Prior to this appointment, he held the positions of Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (ICMC), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and subsequently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME), USP. Has

authored numerous publications in leading international journals and conference proceedings. Received several prestigious awards, and scholarships, including a fully funded PhD scholarship and Postdoctoral fellowship from Brazil, a Best Paper Award at the 15th Ad Hoc Now Conference, and the Best Head of Department Award at CECOS University.

My research is focusing on fog-assisted emergency response systems for smart cities. Research interests also include computer networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), Internet of Things (IoT), fog and cloud computing, smart cities, and intelligent transportation systems.

Courses taught at undergraduate Level:

Programming fundamentals (C++, Java, & Python)

Data structures and algorithms

Computer networks

Wireless networks

Operating systems

Object oriented programming

Database systems

Analysis of algorithms

Introduction to ICT

Cloud computing

Data and network security

Vehicular ad hoc networks

Courses taught at graduate level:

Advanced network security

Network performance evaluation

Advanced computer networks

Advanced algorithm analysis

Wireless sensors networks

Software defined networks

International Journals

1. Ullah, K., Habiba, U. (2023) “Service-Oriented Architecture for Providing ITS Services in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”, Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, 51(1), pp. 57–69. https://doi.org/10.3311/Pptr.18402.

2. Zahid Saleem, Ullah Kifayat, Waheed Abdul, Basar Sadia, Zareei Mahdi, and Biswal Rajesh Roshan, “Fault Tolerant DHT-based Routing in MANET,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 11, article no. 4280

3. Kifayat Ullah, Naseer Amin, and Shahzad Hassan, “Fog-based Energy-efficient Dijkstra Algorithm for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network,” International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 801-810

4. K. Ullah, and A. Haseeb, “BSAD: Bus-based services advertisement protocol for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET),” International Journal of Sensor Networks, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 14 – 22. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2021.117961.

5. Kifayat Ullah, Haris Khan, “Fog-LAEEBA: Fog-assisted Link Aware and Energy Efficient Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network,” ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE INFORMATICA, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 180-194, 2021.

6. Kifayat Ullah, Muhammad Asim Jan, A. Sayyed, “Automatic Diseases Detection and Classification in Maize Crop using Convolution Neural Network”., International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering (IJATCSE)., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 675-679, 2021.

7. A. Sayyed, M. Waqar Aziz, K. Ullah, “Cooperation Between Mobile and Static Nodes in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 92-100, 2021.

8. K. Ullah, A. Sayyed, M. W. Aziz, and E. dos S. Moreira, “A beaconing-based roadside services discovery protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks,” Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science., vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 2036–2051, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1802-175.

International Conferences

1. K. Ullah and W. Ali, "Optimising I2V Propagation in VANETs-A Broadcast Frequency and Mobility Analysis for BSAD Protocol," 2026 IEEE 2nd Latin American Conference on Antennas and Propagation (LACAP), Natal, Brazil, 2026, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/LACAP67012.2026.11471098.

2. M. Hamdan, A. M. Eldhai, S. Abdelsalam, K. Ullah, A. K. Bashir, M. Marsono, and F. Kon, "A Two-Tier Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Approach for IoT-Enabled Smart Cities," IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225834.

3. Bruno Carneiro, Daniel Batista, Roberto Hirata, and Kifayat Ullah, “A Crash Response System using LoRa-based V2X Communications,” 2023 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2023) - Workshop of NOMS 2023, Miami, FL, USA, doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154409.

4. Bruno Campos, Joao Henri, Daniel Batista, R Hirata, and Kifayat Ullah, “Comparativo de Estratégias para Resposta a Emergências usando Redes Ad Hoc Veiculares e Computação em Névoa,” 2023 XLI Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas, Brasilia, Brazil, doi: 10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2023.760.

5. P. I. Siqueira Nepomuceno, K. Ullah, K. R. Braghetto and D. Macúdo Batista, "A Pothole Warning System using Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)," 2022 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022, pp. 147-152, doi: 10.1109/FIT57066.2022.00036.

6. K. Ullah, “Smart Auto-Rickshaws: Addressing the needs of the most marginalized persons,” in ICT4D Non-Conference, held virtually at Royal Holloway, University of London campus, 2020.

7. L. M. S. Jaimes, K. Ullah, and E. dos Santos Moreira, “ARS: Anonymous reputation system for vehicular ad hoc networks,” in 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2016.

8. L. M. Santos Jaimes, K. Ullah, and E. dos Santos Moreira, “A secure commercial ads dissemination scheme for vehicular networks,” in 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2016.

9. K. Ullah, L. M. Santos, R. Yokoyama, and E. D. S. Moreira, “Advertising roadside services using vehicular ad hoc network (vanet) opportunistic capabilities,” in VEHICULAR 2015, The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications, IARIA, 2015.

[1] K. Ullah, L. M. Santos, J. B. Ribeiro, and E. D. S. Moreira, “SADP: A lightweight beaconing-based commercial services advertisement protocol for vehicular ad hoc network,” in Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 279–293.

Fully funded scholarship from FAPESP, Brazil for Postdoc at University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (2021).

IGNITE funding (Rs. 70 thousand) for a BS project (2020).

Grant from FAPESP, Brazil to attend summer school on big data at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (2019).

Fully funded scholarship from TWAS-CNPq to pursue PhD degree at University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (2012).

Merit-based scholarship during MCS at KUST, Kohat, Pakistan (2003-2004).