BTFM 2026

Prof. Atta ur Rehman Khan is a full professor at the College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ajman University. He holds a Ph.D. in Mobile Cloud Computing and Security from the University of Malaya and has nearly two decades of experience in academia and research. His career includes roles as Postgraduate Program Coordinator at Sohar University, Founding Director of Pakistan’s National Cybercrime Forensics Lab, Head of the Air University Cybersecurity Center, and Research Committee Chair at King Saud University. Prof. Khan’s research spans cybersecurity, mobile cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, and ad hoc networks. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, with several papers ranked among the most cited in computer science. According to Stanford University, he is among the world’s top 2% of scientists. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Springer Journal of Cluster Computing and IEEE Communications Magazine. Prof. Khan is also a Program Evaluator at Pakistan’s National Computing Education Accreditation Council, and he has chaired and contributed to over 85 international conferences. A Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, Prof. Khan has delivered keynote speeches globally and received multiple awards, including the Ajman University Long-term Research Award and VisionICT Best Project Award. His research interests include cybersecurity, mobile cloud computing, and IoT.