Associate Professor (Reader) of Computer Science
RITICS Fellow at Imperial College (with NCSC)
Director of Cyber Assurance Lab
Deputy Director of NCSC accredited ACE-CSE
Operational Lead of NCSC accredited ACE-CSR
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
London, UK
SE10 9LS
E-mail: m.khan [AT_DOMAIN] gre [DOT] ac [DOT] uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 8331 8522
Office: QM408 (Queen Marry)
Currently, I am serving as RITICS Fellow at Imperial College London jointly with NCSC and GCHQ. Also, I am an Associate Professor (Reader) of Computer Science at the University of Greenwich, UK. There I founded the Cyber Assurance Lab in the Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security (CS2) (previously ISEC - Internet of Things and Security Research Centre). Currently, I serve as an Operational Lead and Co-Founder of NCSC accredited Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR), and Co-Founder and Deputy Director of NCSC accredited Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE). I am also a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL, USA and DARPA, USA. Also, I am a member of (i) an interdisciplinary Law, Emerging Tech and Science (LETS) Lab, UK, (ii) Formal Methods Europe -- an association for bringing world leading researchers and academics together including teaching of formal methods, and (iii) EASST -- an European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. I have received a MSc in Advanced Distributed Systems from the University of Leicester, UK in 2008 and PhD (Dr. techn.) in 2014 focusing on Formal Verification of Computer Algebra Software from the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Johannes Kepler University, Austria, both with distinction. I have also received an MSc in Computer Science from the Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan in 2001. Before joining the University of Greenwich, I was a Lecturer in Cyber Security at Surrey Center of Cyber Security, University of Surrey, UK during 2018 and 2019. Prior to that I was a Postdoc at the MIT CSAIL, USA jointly during 2014-2016 and in SERG Group at the Alpen-Adria University, Austria during 2016-2018. My research has been recognised through (i) winning awards in the most premier research venues including CICM 2012, WF-IoT 2016 and ICS-CSR 2019, to name a few and (ii) winning and being part of mega research grants by distinguished international and regional funding agencies including Horizon Europe, H2020, HFRI, FWF and NSF/DARPA, to name a few. I am a member of IEEE.
My research interests are in:
Two of our papers Towards Privacy Analysis of Internet-based Messaging Applications, and Automatic Recovery of Run-time Threats in Distributed Industrial Control Systems are accepted in 30th ETFA.
May 2025Our paper Cross-Model Evaluation of LLMs for Generating Inline Formal Specifications in Distributed Industrial Control Systems is accepted in 29th KES.
Our paper LLM-based Generation of Formal Specification for Run-time Security Monitoring of ICS is accepted in IEEE CSR Workshop on GAIA-SEC.
Our paper Towards Vulnerability Analysis of Web 3.0 Oracle Networks is accepted in IEEE CSR Workshop on SPARC.