Speaking & Thought Leadership

I have been invited by Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) of KSA for my research on OT Security.

Invited Speaker at the 28^th IEEE ICCIT 2025. Talk: Multi-Agentic AI Augmented Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems and Smart Infrastructure. Long Beach Hotel, Cox\'s Bazar, Bangladesh — Dec 19–21, 2025. Received Certificate of Appreciation.

Presented our paper at IEEE Globecom 2025. IEEE Global Communications Conference — 8–12 Dec 2025, Taipei, Taiwan. Paper: ONCO-LLM: A Novel Framework for Bridging the Cancer Patients’ QoL Data Management Gap Using Agentic Large Language Models and RAG-Enhanced Continuous Monitoring.

I presented my work on AI in MOI Event in Riyadh.

I was honored to present my AI for cancer therapy research in King Salman Convention Center, Madinah, organized by KFSHRC in Madinah.

I had the privilege to present my work to KACST President, H. E. Dr. Dr. Munir M. Eldesouki during LEAP 2025 event.

I presented my research on LLM in the National Guards headquarters, Riyadh.

I had the honor to present my work on AI for Cancer Research at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) in Riyadh.

I presented my LLM assisted iGRC software solution in LEAP event at the ARAMCO Cyberani booth.

I presented my research topic on Privacy on the Internet at the AOU Madinah Branch.

I was honored by H.E. the President of AOU for my keynote speech at AOU.

I presented my research projects to H.E. the Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador in Bangladesh and Ambassador in Pakistan.

I presented my work to H.E. MCIT Minister Engr. Sawah during BlackhatMEA 2025 Event in Riyadh.

I received the following speaker award from POSS Conference

I was invited as a panel member where I discussed my work on OT Security in the Dubai Conference.

I presented at the BlackhatMEA event in Riyadh.

I gave a keynote speech on how to protect oil and gas critical national infrastructure using AI based cyber security operations.

I gave a presentation at the Cybersecurity Department of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, Madinah Al Munawwarah on 20th of November 2024. I talked about LLM powered GRC and LLM Powered SoC for Haramain.

I was honored as a speaker at the CS4CA MENA Cyber Security Summit, which took place in Dubai.

My Hajj project received 2 best project awards from H.E. the Minister of Hajj in the Jeddah Hajj 2025 event.

I had the privilege to present my work at the CS4CA conference, which took place in Dubai.

I have the privilege to be a keynote speaker at the Ministry of Interior organized event. The title of my keynote speech was “Protecting Saudi Critical National Infrastructure Using Generative AI”.

I was a panelist in the joint INTERPA and MoI event held in Riyadh on 12th of November 2024.

I presented my paper “iGRC – An LLM-Powered Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Virtual Assistant for Enterprise” at the 13th International Association of Police Academies Conference and the 9th Community and Security Symposium Organized by King Fahd Security College on 12th of November 2024 in Riyadh, KSA.

Presented my paper “Leveraging Large Language Models in Security Operations for Enhanced Threat Detection and Log Interpretation” at the 13th International Association of Police Academies Conference & 9th Community and Security Symposium, organized by King Fahd Security College — 12 November 2024, Riyadh, KSA.

Presented my work to KACST President H.E. Dr. Munir M. Eldesouki in Riyadh.

I was part of the ALLAM challenge on 7–9 November 2024 in Riyadh where we presented our SeerahGPT project that used the ALLAM foundational model. A proud moment showcasing Arabic AI capabilities at one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship AI competitions organized by SDAIA.

As PI of the project, I had the privilege to present our RDIA startup at RDIA headquarters, Riyadh on 23rd of October 2024. Honored to have been invited as SPEAKER to the TechTalentHub event organized by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) of Saudi Arabia in Madinah, where I presented on “AI Technology and its Impact on Human Capital” — speaking to students, industry experts, professionals, and officials on how organizations can embrace AI for training, upskilling, and new AI competence development aligned with the Digital Transformation Strategy.

I have been invited as a keynote speaker to the CS4CA conference to be held in Dubai, 2025.

I am part of the steering committee of CS4CA 2025. On behalf of the organizing committee for the Ninth Symposium on Society and security  titled "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Security Field," run by the King Fahd Security College (KFSC), I have been invited to be a keynote speaker at the event, which will take place on November 11 to 13, 2024, at the InterContinental Hotel in Riyadh. My topic of keynote is “Protecting Saudi Critical National Infrastructure Using Generative AI”.

I spoke at Black Hat Middle East and Africa 2024, the iconic cybersecurity conference, in Riyadh. Stage: Briefing Room 3. Session topic: “Building Secure, Ethical and Socially Acceptable AI: LLM Guardrails with LLMSecDevOps and Regulatory Compliance” — 27 November 2024. Shared my experience and insights from real-life scenarios at Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center, Malham, Saudi Arabia.

I was invited as a panelist on the 9th CySec Saudi Globa Summit and Awards conference, 16-17 September 2024, entitled “HACK-PROOFING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: WHERE OT & IT SECURITY GETS REAL!”. My panel discussion was on “Cloudy with a Chance of Breaches: Enhancing Cloud Security for OT & ICS”.

I have been selected by WHO to present my medical LLM project at GENEVA on 4th of July 2024.

I was a keynote speaker in the CS4CA conference where I presented my work on AI for cyber security in critical national infrastructure safety.

Keynote speaker at Business Hub, Madinah. Talk: “Harnessing Advanced Technologies to Drive Business Innovation and Efficiency” — Saturday, 10 August 2024, 5–7 PM.

I had the honor to present my LLM powered IT/OT Converged secure Industrial Control Systems project to the Saudi MCIT Minister H.E. Engr. Sawaha.

I had the pleasure of presenting my LLM Security Project to Prince Mugrin, Prince Salman bin Bandar, and H.E. Bandar AlHajjar.

I got the excellence award for the UPM Graduation ceremony 2024.

I conducted a workshop titled “Encouraging and supporting teachers to become researchers” as part of the Faculty Development Program on May 1, 2024.

I was invited by Saudi ARAMCO for their SynC Summit 2024.

I received a certificate from AOU for my keynote speech during their event.

I had the honor to be a keynote speaker in the Precision Oncology Saudi Summit (POSS) organized by King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Madinah. The event took place in King Salman International Convention Center on 8-10 February 2024. We have presented our paper in the IEEE L&T Conference in Jeddah on Security of Large Language Models on 15th - 16th of January​, 2024.

I will be talking at the IEEE Globecom 2023 conference on my single author paper to be held on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 8, 2023.

I have been invited by Saudi Aramco to present my work on LLM that took place in Dhahran Expo Center on 20th and 21st of November 2023.

I have been invited to be a speaker at the prestigious CS4CA MENA Cyber Security SUMMIT to be held in Riyadh on 28-29 November 2023.

I joined as a steering committee of CS4CA MENA region Summit.

I have been nominated to be a delegate to attend the emerging tech summit at Riyadh on the 8-9 November 2023.

I have been nominated by WHO, ITU, and KACST to present as a speaker about my research on Medical Large Multimodal Model Security, Privacy, and Compliance. | https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/Pages/default.aspx | https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/Pages/deliverables.aspx

I have been nominated as the panel moderator and speaker in the Cyber Security for Critical Assets World Summit held on to the 11th of July 2023.

I had the honor to give a keynote speech at Al Rayan Medical Colleges at Madinah Al Munawwarah during their annual symposium on May 22, 2023.

I had the privilege to present my capstone student projects to the Vice President of Purdue University, USA during his visit for signing MOU with our C3S College on May 21, 2023. With his delegation was the CISO of Red Sea Project, KSA.

I have the honor to give a keynote speech at Arab Open University Madinah branch on May 17, 2023.

I have been nominated to be the area chair of the prestigious ACM Multimedia 2023 conference.

I have been invited for this great topic panel discussion with the topic “Fight Fire with Fire – Artificial Intelligence for Red and Blue Teams”, organized by PrivSec Conference.

I have been selected to represent the Middle East and Africa region at the prestigious conference CS4CA 2023.

I have been nominated to be a speaker and panelist in the prestigious Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) world forum to be held in May 2023.

I presented our MADINASOC cyber range in front of the Director of Cyber Security Director and CISO of NEOM Dr. Hussein AlDawood.

I had the honor to receive the Director of Cyber Security Director and CISO of NEOM Dr. Hussein AlDawood for my capstone student project presentation event.

I participated with 2 of my students at LEAP 2023 in their AliBaba Cloud Computing Hackathon. The hackathon was participated by 45000 participants from 35 countries. We are among the top 100 finalists.

I had the honor to be a panelist during the SDAIA and Ministry of Education visit at University of Prince Mugrin.

I participated in the BLACKHAT 2022 event in Riyadh with our UPM students.

I have given a 2-hour webinar followed by a Kaggle competition (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/deep-learning-for-cyber-security/leaderboard) on the following topic “Cyber Security for Deep Learning and Deep Learning for Cyber Security”. The event is organized by the Cyber Security Club and AI club of UPM and hackthonat.

I have been chosen to be a panelist and a speaker at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) conference on Cyber Security. Speakers | THE Digital Universities MENA 2022 (timeshighered-events.com) Agenda | THE Digital Universities MENA 2022 (timeshighered-events.com)

I have given a keynote speech arranged by Sonargaon University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in seminar entitled “Industrial Revolution (IR) 5.0 – Building Human Centric Smart City of the Future Using IoT and AI – A Beginner’s Insight”. The event took place in the seminar room of Rector Office on 12th of August 2022. The seminar was attended by the Rector, Vice Rectors, Deans, Head of the Departments, faculty members, Students, invited guests and administration. The letter of appreciation can be found here

I have given a keynote speech in Khulna City Corporation in front of City Mayor, the councilors, the engineering team on title “Design and Develop Smart City Services Using Artificial Intelligence and IoT” on August 7, 2022. The letter of appreciation can be found here

I have given a keynote speech in Khulna in front of City Mayor, the councilors, the engineering team on title “Design and Develop Smart Building Services Using Artificial Intelligence and IoT” on August 3, 2022.

I have given a keynote speech in Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) in front of their engineering team on title “Self-Explainable AI and IoT to Build Next Generation Secure Smart City” on July 25, 2022. Here is the letter of appreciation.

I have led the UPM startup booth in the MIT Startup event hosted at the King Salman Exhibition Center at Madinah on March 2022. I have presented two products to the audience. Details of the products can be seen here https://youtu.be/POJMXnWVUQU | https://youtu.be/aUCyNVW1qwQ

I have led the startup booth at LEAP2022 and presented our UPM-MDA smart city solution in Riyadh.

I have been invited as a keynote speaker at the prestigious MENA Cyber Security Conference to be held in Dubai 2022. Speakers | MENA Cyber Security Conference | 24-25 Jan 2022 | Dubai (cs4ca.com)

I have been selected as steering committee member of the prestigious MENA cyber security conference to be held in DUBAI in 2022. Steering Committee | MENA Cyber Security Conference | 24-25 Jan 2022 (cs4ca.com)

I have been invited as keynote speaker at the MENA Industrial Cyber Security Conference, 2021, which took place on 15-16 November 2021. https://menaindustrialcybersec.com/speakers/

I had the honor to serve as prestigious panel moderator of the MENA industrial Cyber Security Conference 2021.

I Gave a lecture on Industrial Cyber Security Dr. Md Abdur Rahman has been invited to King Abdulaziz University’s (KAU) Winter Enrichment Program Lecture series. The topic of lecture has been decided to be “Self-Explainable Deep Learning at the Edge, Internet of Health Things, Beyond 5G, and Blockchain Based Digital Twin: Personalized Healthcare During Pandemic”. Dr. Md Abdur Rahman has organized a demo event, in conjunction with the Vice Rector for Business Development of UPM, which took place on 28th of October 2020 at UPM. In this demo event, I showed 60 AI-based deep learning applications, as part of our UPM portfolio, to Technology Control Company (https://www.tcc-ict.com/en/), one of the largest Saudi Cloud providers.

I have been invited as the keynote speaker at the prestigious Cyber Security for Critical Assets Conference to be held on 1st – 2nd February 2021 in Dubai, UAE (https://mena.cs4ca.com/). The title of my talk is “Potential of AI for Protecting Critical National Infrastructure”

I have joined the prestigious Cyber Security for Critical Assets Conference to be held on 1st – 2nd February 2021 in Dubai, UAE (https://mena.cs4ca.com/) as Steering Committee member.

I have organized a one-day workshop at Prince Sultan Military Hospital in which we have trained 60 medical doctors about our developed medical products using AI. On Sunday, August 16, 2020, I organized an event to demonstrate the work in progress for my COVID-19 funded project at University of Prince Mugrin, in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The Event was attended by UPM Rector, Vice Rectors, Deans, and business investors, which was led by the PI of the project, followed by the introductory presentation and demonstration of Covid-19 related development work in progress, which is available at website: http://www.advancedmedialab.com/UPM-AI-COVID19/demo-AI.html The project github repository contains more information https://upm-kacst-covid19.github.io/

I joined as TPC member of IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 5G and Beyond Wireless Security Workshop.

I have been invited for Keynote speech at the IEEE Multimedia Services and Technologies for Smart-Health (MUST-SH 2020) workshop to be held on 6-10 July 2020, London, United Kingdom.

I presented our UPM startup progress during meeting between UPM and Madinah Development Authority (MDA) on 22nd of April, 2020. The title of the presentation was “Managing mda affairs with artificial intelligence, 5g, and IIoT”

I gave a public talk and seminar with title “How IoT & A.I help us fight COVID-19 Global Pandemic” on 19th April 2020 through Zoom-based online broadcasting.

I am the technical chair of the IEEE Multimedia Services and Technologies for Smart-Health (MUST-SH 2020) workshop to be held on 6-10 July 2020, London, United Kingdom. The details of the conference can be reached at

I did a presentation and live demo on AI for Smart City Solutions toward establishment of a Center of Excellence in AI at UPM one 17th February, 2020.

I showed a demo To Sheikh Sudais on January 23, 2020 the following demo AI for Smart city Secure Smart Building Management System

I presented our Smart City Research and Development Prototype to the CEO of Elm (https://www.elm.sa/en/Pages/default.aspx) on 25th December, 2019. The event was organized by the Rector office and the Office of Vice Rector for Business.

I participated at the Monshaat startup competition at the Kingdom level where all the business startups in the whole Kingdom participated and won the first award for our “UPM Startup-Home Physiotherapy System” on 30th November 2019. Details news can be reached at

I participated at the Monshaat startup competition at the Madinah level and won the first position for our “UPM Startup-Home Physiotherapy System”. The news is published at

I showed a demo of our Blockchain-based secure house to the CEO of red sea project. The demo event took place the female campus of UPM on 15th of November, 2019. Presented my blockchain integration project with the University of Glasgow 5G testbed on June 29, 2019.

I presented a demo on “Secure smart facilities based on IoT and Blockchain” at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR 2019), held in Ottawa, ON, Canada from 10-13 June, 2019.

I was guest speaker at the “Prince Saud Madinah Imarah Delegation team” introduction to UPM research, which took place at the University of Prince Mugrin on 28th of April 2019. Invited Speaker at the 16th Learning and Technology Conference (L&T 2019), Effat University, 3rd and 4th of March 2019 in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Title of the talk is “Artificial Intelligence to Counter Next Generation Threats”.

I was guest speaker at the National Guards Security Seminar took place at the University of Prince Mugrin on 26th of February, 2019. Presented the Blockchain for Hajj project demo in King Salman Convention Center at Madinah on 7th February 2019. In this demonstration, we have demoed our developed Blockchain DApps. Speaker at the Jeddah Bangladesh Consulate General on a workshop in which I was the Speaker with title “Secure Consular services on Blockchain” held on 6th December, 2018. Speaker at the Ministry of Defense Workshop held in Ritz Carlton Hotel, Riyadh, held on 28-29 November 2018. I presented the following three topics “Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Threats” “The Blockhain Revolution and its Applications to MoD” “IoT Infrastructure Resilience and Future Paradigms”

I was invited by King Khalid University for a one-day workshop to “Establish Artificial Intelligence Research Center at King Khalid University” held on October 2nd, 2018 at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.

I served as the workshop chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exo (ICME) 2018, which was held on July 23-27, 2018 at San Diego, USA. http://www.icme2018.org/conf_workshops#workshop-msts

I am the track co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Broad-Band Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications held in October 27-29, 2018, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. Speaker at the 4th Euro-Global Physiotherapy congress 2017 to be held in Rome, Italy, December 7-8, 2017 Workshop Chair at 4th Euro-Global Physiotherapy congress 2017 to be held in Rome, Italy, December 7-8, 2017. Invited Speaker at the 1st International Conference of Smart World 2017 (ICSW-2017) was held in Xi’an Qujiang International Conference Center, China during September 25-27, 2017. Invited Poster Session Presentation in KAUST-NSF Environmental Monitoring Conference on 6th – 8th Nov 2017, Jeddah. Invited Speaker at SCITA 2017 Conference, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah from 27 to 29th November 2017. Invited Speaker at International Engineering Conference and Exhibition IECE in (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 4-7 December 2017.

I organized a workshop at King Abdullah Medical City as general chair. The event took place on 3rd May 2015 at Makkah.