Narmeen Shafqat

Education

• MS in Information Security, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
• BS in Electrical Telecom Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

About Me

• Hometown: Islamabad, Pakistan
• Field of Study:  Cybersecurity
• PhD Advisor:  Aanjhan Ranganathan

Biography

Narmeen is pursuing ​a PhD in Cyber​security at Northeastern University ​in Boston, MA under the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Program. She is also a recipient of ​a 2019 DKG World Fellowship Award. Narmeen received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical (Telecommunication) in 2013 and ​her master’s degree in Information Security in 2016 from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan with ​a gold medal.

She started her professional career as ​a ​research ​fellow/​team lead with a national R&D organization, and later served as​ a ​lecturer in the Department of Information Security ​at NUST, Pakistan for 3 years. During her service at NUST, she also held ​the position of Coordinator for Pakistan’s first National Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation Lab (NCSAEL-NUST).

Narmeen has acquired several international trainings in the domain of Information Security​, particularly Information Design Assurance Red Team (IDART) from Sandia National Laboratories, USA, and Cyber Executive Training from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA.

What is your research about?

My research revolves around the security and privacy analysis of Internet of Things (IoT) based networking protocols​, namely Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). I'm exploring what sort of sensitive information is leaked when these devices communicate and how these privacy leakages ​can be prevented.

Recent Publications