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Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, 2026
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Florida International University, 2021
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, 2018

Research Interests

• Cybersecurity and resilience of embedded cyber-physical systems, autonomous systems and UAVs through physics-aware intrusion detection, attack analysis and recovery
• Trustworthy and adversarial machine learning for safety-critical cyber-physical systems, including generative AI, reinforcement learning, robust intrusion detection and agility-based attack and defense frameworks
• Side-channel and control-signal security for embedded and autonomous systems, including PWM-based hardware security, hardware Trojan detection and control-aware attack detection and recovery
• Cybersecurity and resilience of power and energy systems through PMU/WAMPAC security, adversarial attack analysis, machine-learning-based intrusion detection and hardware-in-the-loop validation
• Security and resilience of distributed and collaborative machine learning on IoT and edge devices, including adversarial attack mitigation, distributed neural networks and secure edge intelligence

Professional Associations and Honors

• Fulbright Scholar, 2019–2021
• Dissertation Fellowship Recipient, Florida International University, 2026
• ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management Systems Auditor, IRCA Global, 2021

Professional Activities

• Peer reviewer for leading journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and Computers & Security
• Reviewer for conferences including but not limited to IEEE/IFIP DSN, ACM AsiaCCS, IEEE ICC, IEEE CNS, IEEE LCN and IEEE SmartGridComm
• Mentor to undergraduate and graduate researchers on NSF- and DOE-supported research and senior design projects

Research in the Media

UAV cybersecurity research received media coverage from Forbes, FIU News, Tech Xplore, The Defense Post and Heise Online.

Selected Publications

• M. Asif, M. Veksler, D. Aras, K. Akkaya and M. A. Rahman, "SLEIGHT: Real-time Closed-Loop Attack Analytics Framework for Holistic Intrusion Detection Systems in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec ’26), 2026.
• M. Asif, M. K. Kazmi, M. A. Rahman, S. R. Hasan and S. Homsi, "SHEATH: Defending Horizontal Collaboration for Distributed CNNs Against Adversarial Noise," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025.
• M. Asif, J. C. T. Rodriguez, M. K. Kazmi and M. A. Rahman, "I Will Always Be by Your Side: A Side-Channel Aided PWM-Based Holistic Attack Recovery for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025.
• M. Asif, A. Mohammad, M. A. Rahman and K. Akkaya, "ConFIDe: A PWM-Driven Control-Fused Intrusion Detection System for Hardware Security in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS ’24), 2024.
• A. Almeida, M. Asif, M. T. Rahman and M. A. Rahman, "Side-Channel-Driven Intrusion Detection System for Mission Critical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2024.

U.S. Patent

A. Rahman, K. Akkaya and M. Asif, "Systems and Methods for Control and Intrusion Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," U.S. Patent No. 12,509,242, 2025.

Work Experience

• Assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, 2026–Present
• Graduate research assistant, Analytics for Cyber Defense Lab, Florida International University, 2021–2026
• Operations engineer, K-Electric Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan, 2018–2019