Mohamed Baza

Assistant Professor

Education

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Technological University

MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Benha University, Egypt

BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Benha University, Egypt

Research Interest

  • Computer, communication, and network security (secure protocols, intrusion detection, and resilient networked systems)
  • Cybersecurity for AI/ML (adversarial threats and defenses—poisoning, evasion, model stealing, privacy attacks; robust and trustworthy deployment)
  • LLM / GenAI security (prompt injection & jailbreaks, RAG/data poisoning, data leakage, secure agent/tool use, and safe deployment)
  • Security and privacy in smart-city infrastructure (smart grid/AMI, smart health, connected/autonomous vehicles—V2X/VANET, and EV communications/charging), including threat modeling and threat-aware intelligence

Research Lab

Trustworthy, Threat-Aware Intelligence for Next-Generation Smart City Systems Lab

Courses Taught

CSCI 111 - Introduction to Cybersecurity

CSCI 345 - Computer and Network Security 

CSCI 362 - Software Engineering

CSIS 631 - Principles of Computer Security

CSIS 641 - Advanced Cybersecurity 

Selected Publications

Brenner, M. Baza, A. Rasheed, W. Lalouani, M. Badr, and H. Alshahrani, Dpark: Decentralized smart private-parking system using blockchains,” Journal of Grid Computing, 2023

Baliker, M. Baza, A. Alourani, A. Alshehri, H. Alshahrani, and K.-K. R. Choo, On the applications of blockchain in fintech: Advancements and opportunities, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023.

Baza, N. Lasla, M. Mahmoud, and M. Abdallah, B-Ride: Ride sharing with privacy-preservation, trust and fair payment atop public blockchain, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), vol. 8, June. 2021.

Badr, M. Baza, and M. Mahmoud, Detecting electricity fraud in the net-metering system using deep learning, in IEEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC’21), Dubai, UAE, 2021.

Baza, M. Mahmoud, s. Ahmed, S. Bakiras, and X. Lin, Privacy preserving blockchain-based energy trading schemes for electric vehicles, IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2021.

Baza, M. Pazos-Revilla, M. Nabil, A. Sherif, M. Mahmoud, and W. Alasmary, Privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant charging coordination schemes for smart grid, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Jan. 2021

Baza, M. Nabil, M. Mahmoud, N. Bewermeier, K. Fidan, and M. Abdallah, Detecting sybil attacks using proofs of work and location in VANETS, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Jun. 2020

Baza, A. Salazar, M. Mahmoud, M. Abdallah, and K. Akkaya, On sharing models instead of the data for smart health applications, in IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies ((ICIoT’20)), (Doha, Qatar), May 2020.

Baza, M. Nabil, N. Lasla, K. Fidan, M. Mahmoud, and M. Abdallah, Blockchain-based firmware update scheme tailored for autonomous vehicle, in Proc. of the International IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), (Marrakech, Morocco), April 2019.