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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

Dr. Sarah Al-Shareeda has recently joined the Department of Computer Systems and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya as a senior Lecturer. Dr. Sarah received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2017. She was awarded the Fulbright Science and Technology Award in 2012.
She served as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Basrah, Iraq, from 2008 to 2012. She served as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Bahrain, from 2019 to 2023. She has been a Postdoctoral Researcher with Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, from 2023 to 2026, and a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Automotive Research, The Ohio State University, USA, from 2024 to 2025.
Her research interests include vehicular networks, digital twins, task offloading, edge and cloud computing, authentication and security, reinforcement learning, and AI-enabled cyber-physical systems. Dr. Al-Shareeda is an IEEE Senior Member who actively contributes to IEEE societies and affinity groups and serves as a publication chair and reviewer for leading conferences and journals.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

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

MEMBERSHIPS

  • MEMBER, IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY (PES), MEMBER
    2025 to 2026 (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., & Özgüner, 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)

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)