Farkhund Iqbal

Farkhund Iqbal received the MSc and the Ph.D. degrees from Concordia University, Canada, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, UAE and the team lead for the Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics (CAD) research group in Center for Smart Cities and Intelligent Systems, Zayed University. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Service Robotics and Data Analytics techniques for problem-solving in digital security, digital forensics, healthcare, cybercrime investigation and smart city domains. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada, and an Associate Graduate Faculty member in the Faculty of Business and IT, Ontario Tech University, Canad

Publications

Metaverse Forensics: A Preliminary Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges
Metaverse Forensics: A Preliminary Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges
Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal, Siem Zeresenay, Zainab Khalid, Richard Ikuesan, Sened Abraham. © 2024. 27 pages.
The metaverse is poised to offer an immersive virtual environment for people to meet, socialize, collaborate, play, and conduct business transactions. Although the metaverse has...
Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Digital Forensic Investigations Conducted on Common Drone Models
Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Digital Forensic Investigations Conducted on Common Drone Models
Khalifa Al-Room, Farkhund Iqbal, Thar Baker, Babar Shah, Benjamin Yankson, Aine MacDermott, Patrick C. K. Hung. © 2021. 25 pages.
Drones (a.k.a. unmanned aerial vehicles – UAV) have become a societal norm in our daily lives. The ability of drones capture high-quality photos from an aerial view and store and...
The Internet of Things: Challenges and Considerations for Cybercrime Investigations and Digital Forensics
The Internet of Things: Challenges and Considerations for Cybercrime Investigations and Digital Forensics
Áine MacDermott, Thar Baker, Paul Buck, Farkhund Iqbal, Qi Shi. © 2020. 13 pages.
The Internet of Things (IoT) represents the seamless merging of the real and digital world, with new devices created that store and pass around data. Processing large quantities...
Towards a Better Understanding of Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Parrot AR Drone 2.0
Towards a Better Understanding of Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Parrot AR Drone 2.0
Hana Bouafif, Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal. © 2020. 23 pages.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) have gained increased popularity as their innovative uses continue to expand across various fields. Despite their numerous beneficial uses...
A Deep Learning Framework for Malware Classification
A Deep Learning Framework for Malware Classification
Mahmoud Kalash, Mrigank Rochan, Noman Mohammed, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang, Farkhund Iqbal. © 2020. 19 pages.
In this article, the authors propose a deep learning framework for malware classification. There has been a huge increase in the volume of malware in recent years which poses...