School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Faculty Madiha Khalid

Madiha Khalid

Assistant Professor
Summary

An academician at National University of Science and Technology, undertaking information security and computing courses. Zealous about engineering and with 8+ years of experience specializing in FPGA design, C programming, quantum computing and network security.

Academic Background
PhD (Information Security) Bahria University June 01, 2016 - June 06, 2023
Honours and Awards
Publications
Quantum cryptanalysis of ultralightweight mutual authentication protocols: A Grover’s search model April 30, 2026 PLoS One - Volume:21, Issue:4, Article Number e0347296
From CBC to clarity: Interpretable detection of beta-thalassemia carriers in imbalanced datasets September 18, 2025 Plos One - Volume 20(9), Article Number e0331985
Breaking the Ultralightweight RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol: Confidentiality Under Threat September 02, 2025 International Journal of Information Security - Volume:24, Issue:5, Article Number 202
Enhancing Ransomware Detection with Machine Learning Techniques and Effective API Integration July 31, 2025 Computers, Materials & Continua - Volume:85(1), Pages:1693-1714
Innovative hip-knee health evaluation: Leveraging pose estimation for single-leg stance postural stability assessment November 08, 2024 Measurement and Control (United Kingdom) - Pages 1-13
An FPGA-based hardware abstraction of quantum computing systems October 01, 2021 Journal of Computational Electronics - Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 2001-2018
Ultralightweight resilient mutual authentication protocol for IoT based edge networks January 02, 2021 Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing - Pages 1-12
Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocols for Low-Cost Passive RFID Tags July 21, 2019 Security and Communication Networks - Volume 2019, Article ID 3295616, 25 pages
Cryptanalysis of ultralightweight mutual authentication protocol for radio frequency identification enabled Internet of Things networks August 21, 2018 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 1-9
Efficient Hardware Implementation of KMAP+: An Ultralightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol February 01, 2018 Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers - Volume 27, Issue 2, Article Number 1850033
Conferences
URAP Under Desynchronization Attack: Analysis and a Lightweight Defense Strategy February 10, 2026 - April 11, 2026 Roshan Jalil, Michelle Webb, Madiha Khalid, International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS)
Exploiting CRUSAP: An Adversarial Security Evaluation of a Lightweight RFID Protocol December 23, 2025 - December 24, 2025 Aiman Malik, Madiha Khalid, Amna Amjid, INMIC
Cryptanalysis and Security Evaluation of the MUMAP Ultralightweight RFID Protocol October 01, 2025 - October 02, 2025 Parsa Riaz, Madiha Khalid, Sojhla Maryam, 2025 4th International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems, C-CODE 2025
Protocol-Level Enhancements of B92 for Efficient QKD in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Networks August 19, 2025 - August 20, 2025 Madiha Khalid, Sana Qadir, Yasir Munir, Sadia Bibi, Umar Muajhid, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, IBCAST 2025
Quantum Circuit Realization of PRESENT-80: A Feasibility Study Using IBM Aer August 19, 2025 - August 20, 2025 Mehdi Hussain, Maham Shahzadi, Maryam Khan, Naveed Riaz, Madiha Khalid, IBCAST 2025
Desynchronization Attack on URAP: Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol December 09, 2024 - December 10, 2024 Umar Muajhid, Binh Tran, Madiha Khalid, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, Wardah Nisar, 2024 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, FIT 2024
Probabilistic Full Disclosure Attack On ISO-29167:Speck May 22, 2024 - May 23, 2024 Armeen Syed, Binh Tran, Dr Madiha Khalid, Umar Mujahid, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, ICT for Intelligent Systems (2024)
Formal Security Analysis of Generalized Ultralightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol November 02, 2023 - November 03, 2023 Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, Madiha Khalid , Umar Mujahid, Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023
FPGA Based Emulation Of B92 QKD Protocol March 22, 2023 - March 24, 2023 Umar Mujahid, Madiha Khalid , Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, 2023 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2023
Cryptanalysis of Resource Constraint IoT Network Authentication Protocol RAPP January 12, 2021 - January 16, 2021 Osman Khan, Madiha Khalid , Umar Mujahid, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, 2021 International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technologies (IBCAST)
Cryptanalysis of the ultralightweight MAC protocol December 17, 2019 - December 19, 2019 Madiha Khalid, Umar Mujahid, Hyesung Park, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, 13th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST)
Recursive Cryptanalysis of the IoT Authentication Protocol June 12, 2019 - June 15, 2019 Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, Madiha Khalid, Hyesung Park, Umar Khokhar, 2019 IEEE 1st Global Power, Energy and Communication Conference, GPECOM 2019
Probabilistic full disclosure attack on IoT network authentication protocol March 14, 2019 - March 15, 2019 Madiha Khalid, Umar Mujahid, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, Binh Tran, 2019 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC)
Cryptanalysis of Radio Frequency Identification System Mutual Authentication Protocol March 06, 2019 - March 07, 2019 Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, Madiha Khalid , Umar Mujahid, Aniqa Tahir, 2019 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems, C-CODE 2019
Security framework of Ultralightweight Mutual Authentication Protocols for low cost RFID tags March 08, 2017 - March 09, 2017 Madiha Khalid , Umar Mujahid, 2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems, C-CODE 2017
Assistant Professor Bahria University July 01, 2019 - September 17, 2023
Lecturer Bahria University January 26, 2015 - June 30, 2019