Dr. M.T. Ahvanooey is an Assistant Professor and Ulam Scientist at the Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from October 2022 to September 2024. Before joining NTU, he was a researcher with the Institute of Multimedia Information Processing, Nanjing University (NJU), P.R. China, where he attained the postdoctoral fellowship from December 2019 to June 2022. He attained his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (Cybersecurity & Machine Learning) at Nanjing University of Science & Technology (NJUST), Nanjing, P.R. China (2019, with honors). He is also a Senior Programmer, Cybersecurity Researcher, and Practitioner with industry and academic experience. He is also a senior member of IEEE and ACM Professional Member. He also has three patent applications. He serves (d) as an editor at Frontiers in Big Data (07/2023- Present), Cryptography journal (MDPI, 2021/12-2023/01) and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member of international conferences, such as ARES 2021-2025, SciSec 2024, IEEE ICME 2021, 2022 and 2023, MIC-Security 2021, and IEEE MIC-Computing 2021, and IEEE CDIS 2023 (43d Series). He achieved several entrepreneurship awards, such as the 2023 Web 3.0 Track-Port63 NTU Challenge Finalist, the Silver Trophy at the Nanjing Jiangning Innovation Competition 2022, and so on.
CSC Elite Outstanding Award (Top Talent (Ranked 1) in CSE School)
Nanjing University of Science & Technology, P. R. China
Dr. M.T. Ahvanooey has been distinguished by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and evaluated based on the research papers extracted from the Ph.D. dissertation, and GPA, i.e., It was limited to three students per year at each university.
Third-Class-Prize
Nanjing Department of Human Resources and Social Security BUREAU
Dr. M.T. Ahvanooey has invented a Covert Communication-based messenger which is called AITSteg Messenger. This project has been awarded a Third-Class-Prize (Bronze Cup) out of 110 projects in the International Innovation and Startup Competition of Students of Hundreds of Chinese universities.
University Educator/Researcher
Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
01 Oct 2023 - present
Senior Scientist or Principal Investigator
CSE School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
01 Oct 2022 - present
Post Doctoral Researcher
School of Information Management, Nanjing University (NJU), P.R. China
01 Dec 2019 - 01 Jun 2022