With the research, teaching and outreach activities described above, the Fellow has achieved the goal of the project, i.e. received an assistant professor offer from University College Dublin, Ireland already at M08 and started in M12 of the project. Moreover, the research, teaching, management skills acquired in the project will also significantly contribute to the Fellow’s career in the mid and long term.
Also, the research work carried out during the fellowship has helped the fellow to received two awards i.e. IEEEr8 ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2020) and Outstanding Research Award 2020 at School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Moreover, fellowship has also helped the fellow to elevated as a senior member of IEEE in May 2020
The research outcome of the projects are highly cited.
For Instance
• Rabia Khan, Pardeep Kumar, Dush Nalin. Jayakody, Madhusanka Liyanage, ”A Survey on Security and Privacy of 5G Technologies: Potential Solutions, Recent Advancements and Future Directions”, in IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, 2020 (Impact Factor : 23.700 Q1) – 84 Citations
• An Braeken, Madhusanka Liyanage, Pardeep Kumar, John Murphy, “Novel 5G Authentication Protocol to Improve the Resistance against Active Attacks and Malicious Serving Networks”, in IEEE Access Journal 2019 (Impact Factor: 4.098 Q1) – 20 Citations
Moreover, The journal paper “A Survey on Security and Privacy of 5G Technologies: Potential Solutions, Recent Advancements and Future Directions” remains the Top50 Accessed papers of IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials journal for the last 15 months (since 2020 January).