Saad A. Alshihri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Biography:
Dr Saad.is currently an Assistant Professor at Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Architecture at Al-Yamamah University (YU) Khobar.
With a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Engineering from Sogang University, South Korea a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from BPCS, Saudi Arabia. His career includes roles as a lecturer at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and Assistant Professor at Onaizah Colleges, where he was the head of Computer Science Department. He has also worked as an OT/ICS Cyber Security Engineer at Samsung Engineering, South Korea. Contributed to research in Blockchain Security where he worked at the Blockchain Center, South Korea. He served as a Research Student at various research laboratories at Sogang University. In the beginning of his profession career he used to work as Network Security Operation Supervisor in IT department KFHJ, Saudi Arabia.
His research interests are P2P Security, Blockchain Security and ICS Security
Publications:
Alshihri, S. & Park, S. (2023). A Decentralized Lightweight Blockchain Nodes Architecture Based on a Secure OpenFlow Protocol Controller Channel. Tehnički vjesnik, 30 (1), 114-121.
Alshihri, S., Park, W., Park, S. (2022). Validation Technique for Zero- Knowledge-Based Transactions of Blockchain Digital Assets Using ASCII Computation Technique. In: Arai, K. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 438. Springer, Cham.
Alshihri, S., Park, S. (2022). A Secure Data Controller System Based on IPFS and Blockchain. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 508. Springer, Cham.
Saad Alshihri1* and SooYoung Park2. The Proposed Model High- performance Grants Low Communication Latency to the Big Size of Data in a Secure and Private System-based on Blockchain with a Software-Defined Network (SDN) 1 Journal of Human-centric Science and Technology Innovation Vol.1, No.3 (2021), pp.57-66.
Conferences:
A. Saad and Soo Young Park. 2019. Decentralized Directed acyclic graph based DLT Network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 158– 163.
A.Saad, SooYoung park From Blockchain Technology to IOTA KCBc2018: 2018 Korea Conference of Blockchain · Jun 7, 2018.
S. Kim, S. Ha, A. Saad and J. Kim, "Indoor positioning system techniques and security," 2015 Forth International Conference on e- Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND), Lodz, Poland,2015, pp.
Teaching:
- Network Security
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Cloud Security
- Security Architecture
Services:
- Reviewer for IET Blockchain and Frontiers in Blockchain
- Frontieers Member
- IET Member
- SCE Member