Faculty Member

- Qualification
Ph.D, MCA
- Designation
Assistant Professor
- Thrust Area
Information Security,Software Security Testing, Program robustness, Evolutionary Algorithms, Learning management system
- Address
Medical Colony, AMU, Aligarh
- Mobile
8171318692
- Email
faisalanwer.cs@amu.ac.in,faisalanwer.jmi@gmail.com
- Time Table
Dr. Faisal Anwer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Security and a Master’s degree in Computer Applications from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Before joining AMU, Dr. Anwer worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Noida, where he gained extensive experience in software development. He has also served as a Software Developer with CSC, UK, contributing to projects based in Perth, Scotland. Additionally, he has worked as a Guest Faculty at Jamia Millia Islamia, where he shared his expertise in computer science education.
Dr. Anwer's research areas and special interests include Cryptography, IoT and Cloud Security, Program Robustness, and Software Testing. He has published numerous research papers in SCIE/Scopus-indexed journals and international conferences, establishing his prominence in the field.
Notably, Dr. Faisal Anwer has also developed an online course on "Data Science using Python" for the SWAYAM platform, showcasing his dedication to advancing education through innovative and accessible learning solutions.
- Publication
Faisal Anwer, Mohammad Nadeem, Mohammed Abdullah Tahir, Jaafar Gaber and Salman Ali. CertAI: A Certification Framework for Trustworthy and Secure Autonomous AI Agents. In Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Spain
S. Ali and F. Anwer, "A Novel Lightweight Framework for Secure and Efficient IoT Communication Using Chaotic Cryptography and Adaptive Steganography," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2025.3648316. (SCIE, IF:7.6, Q1)
Khan, A., Hussain, M. A., & Anwer, F. (2025). A Hybrid Lightweight Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Approach in IoT Utilizing Feature Selection & Explainable Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Access, 13, 192451-192466. (SCIE, IF:3.6, Q1)
Ali, S., & Anwer, F. (2025). A secure framework for IoT-based medical sensors data using homomorphic elliptic curve cryptography. Cluster Computing, 28(14), 893.(SCIE, IF:4.1, Q1)
Ali, S., Hussain, M. A., Anwer, F., Khan, A., & Alam, M. I. (2025). pycastx: A Python library for lightweight data encryption in IoT using ECC and metaheuristics based high-entropy keys and dynamic S-Box. SoftwareX, 31, 102321.(SCIE, IF:2.4, Q3)
Ali, S., & Anwer, F. (2025). A hybrid cryptographic scheme for secure communication. In Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology (pp. 13-17). CRC Press. (Scopus)
Ali, S., Anwer, F., & Ahamad, F. (2025, March). Lightweight Cryptography: Integrating Feedback DNA with the AES Algorithm. In Proceedings of International Conference on Generative AI, Cryptography and Predictive Analytics: ICGCPA 2024 (p. 395). Springer Nature. (Scopus)
Ali, S., & Anwer, F. (2025). An IoT-Enabled Cloud Computing Model for Authentication and Data Confidentiality using Lightweight Cryptography. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 1-23.(SCIE, IF:2.6, Q1)
Ahsan, F., & Anwer, F. (2025). Hybrid GWO-PSO for Path Coverage Testing. In International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (pp. 205-216). Springer, Singapore. (Scopus)
Umar, T., Nadeem, M. and Anwer, F. (2024) Chaos based image encryption scheme to secure sensitive multimedia content in cloud storage. Expert Systems with Applications, 257, p.125050.(SCIE, IF:7.5, Q1)
Ahsan, F., Anwer, F.. A Systematic and Critical Literature Review on Software Security Testing using Metaheuristics. Automated Software Engineering((2024), Springer. (SCIE, IF: 3.4, Q2).
S Ali, F Anwer (2024). Securing IoT Data: A Hybrid Cryptographic Approach.11th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/INDIACom61295.2024.10498695. (Scopus)
S Ali, F Anwer (2024). Secure IoT framework for authentication and confidentiality using hybrid cryptographic schemes. International Journal of Information Technology. (SCOPUS, Q2)
Umar, T., Nadeem, M., & Anwer, F. (2024). A new modified Skew Tent Map and its application in pseudo-random number generator. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 89, 103826. (SCIE, IF:5.0, Q1)
Sohail, S. S., Javed, Z., Nadeem, M., Anwer, F., Farhat, F., Hussain, A., ... & Madsen, D. Ø. (2023). Multi-criteria decision making-based waste management: A bibliometric analysis. Heliyon. (SCIE, IF:4.0, Q1)
Umar, T., Nadeem, M., & Anwer, F. (2023). Modified chaotic quadratic map with improved robust region. International Journal of Information Technology, 1-6. (SCOPUS, Q2)
Ahsan, F., Anwer, F. (2023). A Critical Review on Search-Based Security Testing of Programs. In: Shukla, A., Murthy, B.K., Hasteer, N., Van Belle, JP. (eds) Computational Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 968. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7346-8_19. (SCOPUS)
Q. M. Areeb, Maryam, M. Nadeem, R. Alroobaea and F. Anwer, "Helping Hearing-Impaired in Emergency Situations: A Deep Learning-Based Approach," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 8502-8517, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3142918. (SCIE, IF:3.9, Q1)
Atif, M., Anwer, F., & Talib, F. (2022). An Ensemble Learning Approach for Effective Prediction of Diabetes Mellitus Using Hard Voting Classifier. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 15(39), 1978-1986. (Web of Science)
Nadeem, M., Banka, H., Venugopal, R. et al. Artificial Intelligence for Modelling the Wet Agglomeration Process of Fine Materials: A Survey. SN COMPUT. SCI. 3, 467 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01368-7. (SCOPUS, Q2)
Imam, R., Anwer, F. & Nadeem, M. An Effective and enhanced RSA based Public Key Encryption Scheme (XRSA). Int. j. inf. tecnol. 14, 2645–2656 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-022-00993-y. (SCOPUS, Q2)
Imam, R., Kumar, K., Raza, S. M., Sadaf, R., Anwer, F., Fatima, N., ... & Rahman, O. (2022). A systematic literature review of attribute based encryption in health services. Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences. (SCIE, IF:6.9, Q1)
Imam, R., & Anwer, F. (2022). An Empirical Study of Secure and Complex Variants of RSA Scheme. In Cyber Security, Privacy and Networking: Proceedings of ICSPN 2021 (pp. 185-196). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. (SCOPUS)
Anas, M., Imam, R., & Anwer, F. (2022, January). Elliptic curve cryptography in cloud security: a survey. In 2022 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (Confluence) (pp. 112-117). IEEE. (SCOPUS)
Areeb, Q. M., Nadeem, M., Alroobaea, R., & Anwer, F. (2022). Helping hearing-impaired in emergency situations: A deep learning-based approach. IEEE Access, 10, 8502-8517. (SCIE, IF:3.9, Q1)
R. Imam, Q. M. Areeb, A. Alturki and F. Anwer, "Systematic and Critical Review of RSA Based Public Key Cryptographic Schemes: Past and Present Status," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 155949-155976, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3129224. (SCIE, IF:3.9, Q1)
Anwer, F., Nazir, M., & Mustafa, K. (2019, January). Testing Program Crash Based on 3earch Based Testing and Exception Injection. In International Conference on Security & Privacy (pp. 275-285). Springer, Singapore. (SCOPUS)
Anwer, F., Nazir, M., Mustafa, K.: Security Testing, pp. 3566. Springer Singapore, Singapore (2017).DOI 10.1007/978-981- 10-1415-4 URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007 /978-981-10-1415- 4/3. (SCOPUS)
Anwer, Faisal, Mohd Nazir, and Khurram Mustafa. Testing Program for Security using Symbolic Execution and Exception Injection. Indian Journal of Science and Technology 9.19 (2016). (Web of Science)
Anwer, Faisal, and Mohd Nazir. Automated Software Testing Using Symbolic Execution. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER APPLICATION Issue 5,Volume ( NOV-DEC 2015).
Faisal Anwer, Mohd. Nazir, and Khurram Mustafa. 2014. Automatic Testing of Inconsistency Caused by Improper Error Handling: A Safety and Security Perspective. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information and communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2014). ACM, New York, NY, USA, ,Article 43, 5 pages. DOI=10.1145/2677855.2677898. (SCOPUS)
Anwer, Faisal, Mohd Nazir, and Khurram Mustafa. "A Critical survey Of Security Issues Of OOP." presented in National Conference on Information Security Challenges (NCISC-2014), BBAU, Lucknow.
Anwer, F., Nazir, M., & Mustafa, K. (2013, August). Safety and Security Framework
for Exception Handling in Concurrent Programming. In Advances in Computing and Communications (ICACC), 2013 Third International Conference on (pp. 308-311). IEEE. (SCOPUS)
- DiffieHellman Key Exchange Algorithmhttps://api.amu.ac.in//storage/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LzCkhYypK5shqpfgKVgeZTsZfitpLJs0

