Suleiman Yerima

Dr. Suleiman Yerima

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
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Biography

Dr. Suleiman Y. Yerima is currently a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) , a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Fellow of the British Advance HE (FHEA). He holds a Ph.D. in Computing from the University of South Wales (formerly University of Glamorgan), UK (2009); an MSc (with Distinction) in Personal, Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Bradford, UK (2004); and a First Class honours degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria (2000). In 2017, he received the IET Information Security Journal premium best paper award, and in 2021 he won the best paper award at the 18th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2021). Dr. Yerima has led various research projects in Android malware detection, supported by McAfee (Intel Security). He is the principal investigator of various projects funded by UKRI, Innovate UK and GCRF including: AVAC - Enhancing agricultural value chains in Nigeria using data analytics and GIS; ADRELO - Advancing resilience in low-income housing using climate-change science and big data analytics; STEGA - Secure and trustworthy e-governance in Africa. His current research interests include malware and cyber threat detection, mobile and IoT security, and applied machine learning.

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De Montfort University

Leicester, UK

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