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Dr Abdulaleem Al-Othmani is an Associate Professor in Computer Science (Transnational Education) at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ (Æß²ÊÖ±²¥), UK, where he serves as Programme Manager and Link Tutor for over 20 dual-award and franchised computing programmes. He has over 18 years of academic experience in computer science, cybersecurity and software engineering, including previous academic leadership roles in Malaysia.

He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering  - 2002, an MSc in Computer Science (Information Security) - 2010, and a PhD in Computer Science - 2016, awarded with a Certificate of Excellence. 

His research interests include steganography, digital watermarking, data leak prevention, machine learning in cybersecurity, and speech signal processing. His recent externally funded research focuses on developing a computer vision-based privacy toolkit to help protect children from creating and sharing harmful online content. His previous work includes developing a semantic analysis-based data leak prevention framework for higher education institutions.

Alongside his research and teaching, Dr. Aleem contributes to transnational education, academic quality assurance, curriculum development, programme validation, external examining and accreditation.

Cyber Technology Institute (CTI)

• Data Leak Prevention
• Steganography & Digital Watermarking
• IT Security Awareness
• Machine learning in cybersecurity
• Speech Signal Processing 

• Cyber Security
• Digital Forensic
• Networks & Network Security
• Computer Architecture
• Research Methodology

• PhD in Computer Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
• Master of Computer Science (Information Security), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
• BSc in Computer Engineering, University of Baghdad

• Computer Networks
• Devices and Networks
• Computer Systems

• Certificate of Excellence, UTM School of Graduate Studies (SPS), for Excellent achievement in the PhD thesis, 18 Feb 2016.
• Masters Scholarship, (SCC/HPE/NUFFIC/ARCADIS), Yemen/Netherlands, 2007 – 2009.
• UTM International Doctoral Fellowship (IDF), UTM, Malaysia, 2011 – 2012.
• MOHE Yemen, Bachelor's degree Scholarship, Computer Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1998 – 2002.

• MBCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), since 2021
• ACM Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), since 2021
• AIS Academic Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS), since 2021
• MIEEE, Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2014

• SFHEA, Senior Fellow of Advance HE

Previously supervised more than 20 completed postgraduate studies (PhD and master)
Current Supervisions:
Safari Ismail Mussa, PhD, Accuracy of web app vulnerability scanners, 2nd supervisor.

• Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Principal Investigator, “A Comprehensive Framework for Data Leak Prevention in Malaysian Higher Educational Institutions Using Semantic Analysis”, Total Grant (RM99,380 ~= £17,750), 2020-2022.
• UTM Research Student Grant (RSG) VOT 4S059, Principal Researcher, (EScience Fund Project: 01-01-06-SF1044), “Development of Secure Real-time Data Hiding System in GSM Mobile Encoded Speech Signal”, Total Grant (RM121,810 ~= £21,750), 2013 – 2014

Professional Esteem Indicators

• External Panel Member (Assessor) for the approval of MSc Computer Science programme, Birmingham City University (BCU), 2021
• Viva External Examiner for Moayad Ali Hamood Baktan, Master of Information Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), 2017,
• Expert Reviewer of Instrumentations’ Content validity for PhD studies: (Saeed Alshahrani, UKM, 2020), (Ernie Mazuin, UTM, 2019), and (Qusay Al-Maatouk, UTM, 2019) and Expert Reviewer of Data Analysis Validity for (Ernie Mazuin, UTM, 2019)
• Program Committee Member for IMCOM2020–Taiwan, KLTEC2019–Malaysia, TADHack2018–Malaysia, ICCSIT2018–Malaysia, WCIT2014–Malaysia, and WCIT2013–Malaysia.
• Member of Editorial/Review Boards for several journals and conferences 

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