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CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. SARAH YASEEN ABDULRAZZAQ AL-SHAREEDA
DR. SARAH YASEEN ABDULRAZZAQ AL-SHAREEDA
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer System & Technology
Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
010-2499360
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BIOGRAPHY

I'm Sarah, an OSU alumna, a Fulbright scholar, and a new member of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology family at Universiti Malaya. Before joining UM, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Istanbul Technical University in Türkiye from 2023 to 2026. During that time, I was also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Automotive Research at The Ohio State University, USA, from 2024 to 2025. From 2019 to 2023, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahrain. I earned my Ph.D. in 2017 and my M.Sc. in 2016, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from The Ohio State University, following the Fulbright Science and Technology Award I received in 2012. My B.Sc. and first M.Sc. degrees are in Computer Engineering from the University of Basrah, Iraq, where I graduated as valedictorian in 2004 and 2008.

My research πŸ›°οΈπŸš˜πŸšŠπŸ›³οΈπŸ—οΈπŸ” sits at the intersection of AI and security, spanning connected and autonomous mobility, secure edge computing, and energy systems. I use cryptography to protect AI and connected systems, drawing on elliptic-curve and lattice-based schemes, group signatures, and homomorphic and functional encryption. In turn, I use reinforcement learning, multi-agent learning, federated learning, and uncertainty quantification to make these systems smarter and safer.

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I welcome motivated undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. students, as well as postdoctoral researchers. To grow together, we will aim to publish in high-impact IEEE journals, collaborate with colleagues in Malaysia and across the pond, and build skills that matter now and in the future. If you hold a scholarship or sponsorship, please reach out. If you don't have funding yet, please get in touch anyway. In shaa Allah, I am working to secure funding for strong candidates.

In my professional role, I am an IEEE Senior Member and chair, organize, review, and edit conferences, journals, societies, and affinity groups.

Outside academia, I am a dedicated L3 CrossFitter πŸ‹οΈ and a history-hungry reader πŸ”.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING (V2X) COMMUNICATIONS
    Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Specialist Topics In Automotive Engineering
  • AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTATION (INCLUDING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, DRIVING, UAV, UNDERWATER ROV, SPACE ROV)
    Engineering, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Robotics, Automations And Cyber Physical Systems
  • DIGITAL TWIN
    Applied Science And Technology, Information And Communication Technology (ict), Virtual And Extended Reality
  • CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CRYPTANALYSIS (INCLUDING KEY MANAGEMENT AND RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION)
    Applied Science And Technology, Information And Communication Technology (ict), Digital And Cyber Security
  • EXPERT SYSTEMS AND MACHINE LEARNING
    Applied Science And Technology, Information And Communication Technology (ict), Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
  • OPTIMIZATION IN MACHINE LEARNING
    Applied Science And Technology, Information And Communication Technology (ict), Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ELECTRICAL & ENGINEERING, (Electrical)
    The Ohio State University, Columbus

MEMBERSHIPS

  • MEMBER, IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY (PES), MEMBER
    2026 to present (International)
  • SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY (ITSS), MEMBER
    2019 to 2026 (International)
  • SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE, MEMBER
    2019 to 2026 (International)
  • MEMBER, IEEE WOMEN IN ENGINEERING (WIE), MEMBER
    2019 to 2026 (International)
  • SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY (VTS), MEMBER
    2019 to 2026 (International)
  • SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY (COMSOC), MEMBER
    2019 to 2026 (International)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP

  • Fulbright Science and Technology Award
    2026, Fulbright Program (U.S. Department of State), administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE), USA, International
  • Women in ITS Award
    2026, IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International
  • Best Research Award
    2026, 4th Forum for Women in Research (QUWA), University of Sharjah, UAE, International
  • Best Runner-Up Paper Award
    2025, IEEE SmartNets 2025 (7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking), Istanbul, Turkey, International
  • Outstanding Examination Committee Member
    2012, Computer Engineering Department, University of Basrah, Iraq, University
  • Outstanding Committee Member
    2010, 1st International Conference on Energy, Power, and Control (ICEPC 2010), University of Basrah, Iraq, International
  • Valedictorian of the College of Engineering (First out of 136 Graduates)
    2004, College of Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq, University

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
  1. Al-Shareeda, S., Ozdemir, G., & Jeon, H. S. (2027). Learning-based probabilistic load forecasting with post-hoc and in-model uncertainty. Electric Power Systems Research, 264, 113839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2026.113839
  2. Al-Shareeda, S., Saeed, N., Redmill, K., Jabr, B. A., Salamah, Y. B., Al-Dubai, A., & Ozguner, F. (2025). Novel DT-assisted Vehicular Task Offloading for Cloud, Edge, and Hybrid Deployments. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  3. Farhood, Z., Abed, A. A., & Al-Shareeda, S. (2024). Privacy issues in vehicular ad-hoc networks: A review. Iraqi Journal for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20(1), 25-36.
  4. Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2020). Alternating authentications to match the situational context of an intelligent communicating vehicle. Vehicular Communications, 23, 100248.
  5. Alanazi, F., Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2019). An efficient CPPA scheme for intelligent transportation networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 59, 101041.
  6. Al-Shareeda, S. (2013). PRM mitigation scheme for the nodes failure effect in the WSNs CGD protocol. International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2(1), 29-37.
Chapter in Books
  1. Al-Shareeda, S., Huseynov, K., Cakir, L. V., Thomson, C., Ozdem, M., & Canberk, B. AI-based traffic analysis in digital twin networks
  2. Al-Shareeda, S. (2019). Data authentication algorithms. In Authentication Technologies for Cloud Computing, IoT and Big Data (ch. 3). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Article in Proceeding
  1. Al-Shareeda, S., Ozdemir, G., Fatima, A., Pop, M. D., Jabr, B. A., Salamah, Y. B., & Demerjian, J. (2026, May). Would Learning Help? Adaptive CRC-QC-LDPC Selection for Integrity in 5G-NR V2X. In 2026 6th Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
  2. Al-Shareeda, S., Celik, Y., Bilgili, B., Al-Dubai, A., & Canberk, B. (2025). Accurate AI-driven emergency vehicle location tracking in healthcare ITS digital twin. 2025 5th IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM), Beirut, Lebanon.
  3. Al-Shareeda, S., Ozdemir, G., Jeon, H. S., & Ahmad, K. (2025). A lightweight DL model for smart grid power forecasting with feature and resolution mismatch. 2025 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Middle East (ISGT Middle East), Dubai, UAE.
  4. Al-Shareeda, S., Ozguner, F., Redmill, K., Duong, T. Q., & Canberk, B. (2025). Lightweight authenticated task offloading in 6G-cloud vehicular twin networks. 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Milan, Italy.
  5. Al-Shareeda, S., Saim, M., Jabr, B., Bin Salamah, Y., Alanazi, F., Yurdakul, G., Ozguner, F., & Ozguner, U. (2025). When pedestrians hesitate: PPO-based RL collision avoidance in uncertain scenarios. 2025 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Istanbul, Turkey.
  6. Al-Shareeda, S., Srinivasan, V., Al-Mudhaf, M., Bin Salamah, Y., Jabr, B., & Ozguner, F. (2025). Evaluating handover impact on IBC-authenticated task offloading in C-V2X VTENs. 2025 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), Porto, Portugal.
  7. Al-Shareeda, S., Oktug, S., Yaslan, Y., Yurdakul, G., & Canberk, B. (2024). Does twinning vehicular networks enhance their performance in dense areas? 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Workshops (RoboCom'24), Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  8. Al-Shareeda, S., Ozguner, F., & Canberk, B. (2024). Group-signature authentication to secure task offloading in vehicular edge twin networks. 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) - BlockSecSDN, Cape Town, South Africa.
  9. Huseynov, K., Cakir, L. V., Al-Shareeda, S., Ozdem, M., & Canberk, B. (2024). A data serialization-based framework for efficient IoT management. 2024 IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Ottawa, Canada.
  10. Al-Shareeda, S., & Al-Jadahsa, J. (2023). Detecting human gait phases and conditions with deep learning. 2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), 1-6.
  11. Al-Shareeda, S., Hasan, H., & Alkhayyat, A. (2023). SmartyBin: A tangible AI-based waste classification prototype. 2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), 1-6.
  12. Cakir, L. V., Al-Shareeda, S., Oktug, S. F., Ozdem, M., Broadbent, M., & Canberk, B. (2023). How to synchronize digital twins? A communication performance analysis. 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh, UK.
  13. Farhood, Z., Abed, A. A., & Al-Shareeda, S. (2023). SHADOW: Silent-based hybrid approach for dynamic pseudonymization and privacy preservation in vehicular networks. In Asia Simulation Conference (AsiaSim 2023) (pp. 421-440). Springer Nature Singapore.
  14. Abdulrahman, N., Al-Shareeda, S., & Ali, D. (2022). A supervised learning classifier for replayed voice attack detection. 2022 International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies (3ICT), Bahrain.
  15. Ali, D., Al-Shareeda, S., & Abdulrahman, N. (2022). Low-key shallow learning voice spoofing detection. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (ICEAAI), Abha, Saudi Arabia.
  16. Khalil, H., Mansour, N., & Al-Shareeda, S. (2020). Smart real-time water contamination monitoring system. Proceedings of the 3rd Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2020), 220-225. IET.
  17. Al-Shareeda, S. (2019). Veiled shared key generation for intra-convoy secret communication sessions. 2019 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Istanbul, Turkey.
  18. Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2019). Improving obfuscated key generation phase for secret pairwise vehicular communication sessions. 2nd Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2019), University of Bahrain, Bahrain.
  19. Feng, Y., Al-Shareeda, S., Koksal, C. E., & Ozguner, F. (2019). Enhancing beaconing efficiency via grouping for vehicular communications. 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM), 1-6, Bahrain.
  20. Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2018). Lightweight identity-based cryptographic framework for smart vehicles: Cryptographic proof. IET Smart Cities International Symposium (SCS 2018), 1-6, University of Bahrain, Bahrain.
  21. Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2018). Teaming up authentications to balance anonymity and efficiency of vehicular networks. International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies (3ICT), Bahrain.
  22. Al-Shareeda, S., & Γ–zgΓΌner, F. (2016). Preserving location privacy using an anonymous authentication dynamic mixing crowd. 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 545-550.
  23. Al-Shareeda, S., & Ozguner, F. (2014). Secure pairwise key establishment in vehicular networks. 2014 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE), 105-111.

RESEARCH PROJECT

International
  1. 2023 - 2028, US Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program
    USDOT CARMEN Plus University Transportation Center Project ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2023 - 2028, US Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program
    USDOT CARMEN Plus University Transportation Center Project ( Co-Researcher)
  3. 2025 - 2027, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) IKIP International Cooperation Program
    ITU IKIP Bilateral International Cooperation Project (Grant No. 47198) ( Co-Researcher)
  4. 2023 - 2027, TUBITAK 1515 Frontier R&D Laboratories Support Program
    TUBITAK 1515 Frontier R&D Laboratories Support Program - BTS Autonomous Networks and Data Innovation Lab (Project 5239903) ( Co-Researcher)
  5. 2025 - 2027, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) IKIP International Cooperation Program
    ITU IKIP Bilateral International Cooperation Project - Grant No. 47198 ( Co-Researcher)
  6. 2024 - 2026, Uniper (Industry-funded research)
    Uniper Research Project, Edinburgh Napier University (Smart Grid Power Forecasting) ( Co-Researcher)
  7. 2023 - 2024, Istanbul Technical University Scientific Research Projects (ITU BAP)
    ITU BAP Scientific Research Projects - Grant No. 43981 ( Co-Researcher)
  8. 2023 - 2024, Istanbul Technical University Scientific Research Projects (ITU BAP)
    ITU BAP Scientific Research Projects - Grant No. 43981 ( Co-Researcher)
  9. 2023 - 2023, Corporate sponsors: ADNOC, Emirates NBD, SEWA, TII, GSK
    4th Forum for Women in Research QUWA Research Support - Sponsored by ADNOC, Emirates NBD, SEWA, TII, GSK ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  10. 2023 - 2023, Corporate sponsors: ADNOC, Emirates NBD, SEWA, TII, GSK
    4th Forum for Women in Research QUWA Research Support - Sponsored by ADNOC, Emirates NBD, SEWA, TII, GSK ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  11. 2015 - 2017, US National Science Foundation (NSF)
    US National Science Foundation Project - Grant No. CNS-1446735 ( Co-Researcher)
  12. 2015 - 2017, US Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program
    US Department of Transportation Grant DTRT13-G-UTC47 Crash Imminent Safety UTC ( Co-Researcher)
  13. 2012 - 2015, Fulbright Program of the US Department of State
    Fulbright Science and Technology PhD Fellowship Grant ( Principal Investigator(PI))

PAPER PRESENTED

Invited Speaker
  1. Machine Learning Demystified: Learning from Data, HEP Short-Term Mobility Programme on Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya (International) (22 Jul 2026 - 22 Jul 2026)
  2. Shifting Ground: How AI Transforms Skills, Research, and Competence Ecosystem, DevFest Basra 2025, GDG Basra (Google Developer Groups) and Women Techmakers Basra (National) (06 Dec 2025 - 07 Dec 2025)

ACADEMIC/ PROF. SERVICES

Contribution to Event
  1. (2025) Publication Chair; Also Chaired The Physical Layer and Fundamentals Technical Session. Represented IEEE Comsoc Bahrain Chapter as Technical Activities Officer., International, (Event Organiser)

SUPERVISION

PATENT/ IPR

  • Signal Fusion System Based on Reinforcement Learning for Accurate Intelligent Transportation System Localization in Urban Canyons Using Digital Twin and Starlink Constellation, and Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • An Advanced Artificial Intelligence-Based Traffic Analysis System for Digital Twin Networks and Working Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • An Advanced Artificial Intelligence-Based Traffic Analysis System for Digital Twin Networks and Working Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • Signal Fusion System Based on Reinforcement Learning for Accurate Intelligent Transportation System Localization in Urban Canyons Using Digital Twin and Starlink Constellation, and Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • A Framework System Optimizing the Data Exchange in Internet of Things (IoT) Management and an Operation Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • A Framework System Optimizing the Data Exchange in Internet of Things (IoT) Management and an Operation Method Thereof
    Patent (National)
  • A System and Method for Integrating Digital Twins into Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) with Computer-Aided Machine Learning
    Patent (National)
  • A System and Method for Integrating Digital Twins into Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) with Computer Aided Machine Learning
    Patent (National)
  • A System and Method for Integrating Digital Twins into Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANET) with Computer Aided Machine Learning
    Patent (National)