Other

Grants:

1. 2022: UKRI African Agricultural KTP: AVAC – Enhancing agricultural value chains in Nigeria using data analytics and GIS – (Principal Investigator) – £147, 875
2. April 2021: Prince Muhammed Bin Fahd University Cyber Security Research Grant – Securing the Internet of Things through Intelligent Edge-Cloud Machine Learning – (Principal Investigator) – $6,000
3. 2019: DMU Global Challenges Research Fund: STEGA -Secure and trustworthy e-governance in Africa – (Principal Investigator) – £25,000
4. June 2019: DMU CEM Faculty Enterprise grant: SSIDAAS: Self Sovereign ID as-a-Service – (Co-Investigator) – £10,000
5. 2013: ADAM: Automated Detection of Android Malware – GCHQ grant – £30,000

Awards:

1. 2021: Best paper award – Yerima, S. Y. and Bashar, A. (2021) Bot-IMG: A framework for image-based detection of Android botnets using machine learning. 18th ACS/IEEE International Conf. on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2021).
2. 2017: IET Information Security Premium Best paper award – Yerima, S. Y., Sezer, S., & Muttik, I. (2015). High accuracy android malware detection using ensemble learning. IET Information Security, 9(6), 313-320.
3. 2009: Best Student Paper award – International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2009) – August 2009.
4. 2006: Won the prestigious UK Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORSAS) scholarship, University of Glamorgan.
5. 2005: Ph.D. studentship award, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan.
6. 2003: University of Bradford Scholarship Award for MSc by advanced study.

Professional Activities:

1. Editorial Board Member: MDPI Electronics Journal (Network Section).
2. Peer reviewing: Active and regular reviewer for several IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Hindawi and MDPI journals.
3. Guest Editor: SI on High accuracy mobile malware detection using machine learning, MDPI Electronics -2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/accuracy_detection_mobile_malware
4. Session Chair: Security Algorithms, Cryptography & Blockchains-I session, at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 4-6 December, 2022.
5. Session Chair: Optimization, Fuzzy, Neural Networks & Social Networking-III session, at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks, CICN 2022, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 4-6 December, 2022.
6. Grant Reviewer: Luxembourg national research fund (FNR) – 2020
7. Workshop Chair, WoSTEG2020 – Workshops on Secure and Trustworthy E-Governance, Lusaka & Abuja
8. Membership of Professional Organizations: EC-Council | IEEE | (ISC)2