Dr Jawad Manzoor

BIT, MSc, PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer - Contract Type B
Computer Science
University of Galway
Galway
E: Jawad.Manzoor@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Dr. Jawad Manzoor is currently working as a Lecturer Above the Bar in the School of Computer Science. Previously, he was a lecturer at ATU Donegal and Air University in Pakistan. He won a competitive research grant awarded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan under the National Centre for Cyber Security in 2021. He is a former Erasmus Mundus Fellow and has dual Ph.D. degrees from Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He has worked on several research projects in the fields of cyber security, computer networks, and distributed systems. He also has several years of industrial experience as a software development engineer. His current research interests include the evaluation of network protocols, network data analysis, and network security.

Research Interests

My current research interests include the evaluation of network protocols, network data analysis, and cyber security.

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Cybersecurity on a budget: Evaluating security and performance of open-source SIEM solutions for SMEs'
Jawad Manzoor, Abdul Waleed, Abdul Fareed Jamali, Ammar Masood (2024) 'Cybersecurity on a budget: Evaluating security and performance of open-source SIEM solutions for SMEs'. Plos One, [Details]
(2022) 'Open source SIEM solutions for an enterprise'
Aamna Tariq and Jawad Manzoor and Muhammad Ammar Aziz and Zain Ul Abideen Tariq and Ammar Masood (2022) 'Open source SIEM solutions for an enterprise'. Information and Computer Security, [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'On the Performance of QUIC over Wireless Mesh Networks'
Jawad Manzoor and Llorenc Cerd`a-Alabern and Ramin Sadre and Idilio Drago (2020) 'On the Performance of QUIC over Wireless Mesh Networks'. 28 (4):1872-1901 [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Correction: Optimizing SIEM Throughput on the Cloud Using Parallelization'
Masoom Alam and Asif Ihsan and Muazzam A. Khan and Qaisar Javaid and Abid Khan and Jawad Manzoor and Adnan Akhundzada and Muhammad Khurram Khan and Sajid Farooq (2017) 'Correction: Optimizing SIEM Throughput on the Cloud Using Parallelization'. PLOS ONE, 12 (2) [DOI] [Details]
(2011) 'An Android runtime security policy enforcement framework'
Hammad Banuri and Masoom Alam and Shahryar Khan and Jawad Manzoor and Bahar Ali and Yasar Khan and Mohsin Yaseen and Mir Nauman Tahir and Tamleek Ali and Quratulain Alam and Xinwen Zhang (2011) 'An Android runtime security policy enforcement framework'. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 16 (6):631-641 [DOI] [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2013) 'Crowdsourcing for Industrial Problems'
Victor Munt\'es-Mulero and Patricia Paladini and Jawad Manzoor and Andrea Gritti and Josep-Llu\'\is Larriba-Pey and Frederik Mijnhardt (2013) 'Crowdsourcing for Industrial Problems' In: :6-18 Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2024) IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI)
Ramneet Jaggi; Muhammad Naveed Abbas; Jawad Manzoor; Rahul Dwivedi; Mamoona Naveed Asghar (2024) Turbulence-driven Autonomous Stock Trading using Deep Reinforcement Learning IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI) [Details]
(2019) 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
Jawad Manzoor and Llorenc Cerda-Alabern and Ramin Sadre and Idilio Drago (2019) Improving Performance of QUIC in WiFi 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) [Details]
(2018) 2018 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops
Jawad Manzoor and Ramin Sadre and Idilio Drago and Llorenc Cerda-Alabern (2018) Is There a Case for Parallel Connections with Modern Web Protocols? 2018 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops [Details]
(2017) 2017 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA)
Jawad Manzoor and Idilio Drago and Ramin Sadre (2017) How HTTP/2 is changing web traffic and how to detect it 2017 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) [Details]
(2016) 2016 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Jawad Manzoor and Idilio Drago and Ramin Sadre (2016) The curious case of parallel connections in HTTP/2 2016 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) [Details]
(2010) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java
Aamir Shafi and Jawad Manzoor and Kamran Hameed and Bryan Carpenter and Mark Baker (2010) Multicore-enabling the MPJ express messaging library Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java [Details]
(2009) 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel \&$\mathsemicolon$ Distributed Processing
Aamir Shafi and Jawad Manzoor (2009) Towards efficient shared memory communications in MPJ express 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel \&$\mathsemicolon$ Distributed Processing [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2015 Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC) European Commission
2010 Erasmus Mundus Masters in Distributed Computing European Commission

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Student Recruitment & Public Engagement Member /
Education and Student Committee Member /

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
University of Galway Lecturer Above the Bar 04-JAN-23 /
Atlantic Technological University Lecturer 01-SEP-22 / 31-DEC-22
Air University, Pakistan Assistant Professor 14-OCT-19 / 31-AUG-22
CA Technologies (CA Labs Europe), Barcelona, Spain Researcher/Software Developer 02-JAN-12 / 30-JUN-13
Trillium Information Security Services, Pakistan Team Lead 01-OCT-13 / 31-AUG-15
Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan Software Engineer 17-AUG-09 / 31-AUG-10
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan Research Associate 01-JAN-08 / 16-AUG-09

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2012 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden MSc Computer Science
2019 Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium PhD Computer Science
2008 National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan BIT Information Technology

Languages

  Language
English
Spanish

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
2023 Programming II CT875
2024 Real-time Systems CT420
2024 Malware and Intrusion Detection CT5194
2024 Introduction to Cybersecurity CT5189