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Leading the strategy where AI, privacy and people meet.

Melbourne, Australia

I'm Saud Khan, Academic Director of Data Science and Analytics at Kaplan Business School, leading curriculum, accreditation and industry partnerships across six campuses. I chair Course Development Panels and serve on Academic Board, Teaching and Learning, and Board of Examiners.

Now
Academic Director, Kaplan
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RMIT · ANU Visiting

23+

Peer-reviewed papers

300+

Career citations

2

Patents co-authored

4

Continents collaborating

§ 01 · Appointments

Five posts across three continents: research, teaching, and discipline-level leadership.

May 2025 to Present

Academic Director, Data Science and Analytics

Kaplan Business School · Melbourne, Australia · six campuses + online

Lead the strategic direction of the Data Science and Analytics discipline, translating emerging work in AI resilience, privacy-preserving technologies and data ethics into accredited curriculum and industry partnerships. Direct the engineering of AI-enabled learning analytics and secure virtual laboratories, and manage discipline budget and faculty performance.

Feb 2024 to Present

Teacher, ICT

RMIT University · Melbourne, Australia

Design and deliver cybersecurity coursework built around live attack and defence ranges: pfSense, Cisco ASA, Splunk, ELK, Wireshark, Zeek, Kali. Students rotate through blue-team and red-team roles against scripted incidents mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Assessment maps to ASQA, ISO 27035, NIST SP 800-61.

Dec 2024 to Present

Visiting Researcher

The Australian National University · Canberra, Australia

Advance research on secure communications, non-terrestrial networks and AI-driven network solutions. Prepare competitive grant proposals, co-supervise PhD candidates and contribute to the intellectual environment through seminars and interdisciplinary dialogue.

Feb 2024 to May 2025

Academic Head, IT

Kaplan Business School · Melbourne, Australia · six campuses + online

Led the strategic and academic direction of postgraduate and undergraduate IT programs across six metropolitan campuses and online platforms. Oversaw curriculum design, quality assurance and faculty mentoring, and initiated interdisciplinary projects aligned with emerging industry trends.

Mar 2018 to Feb 2020

Research Assistant

Kumoh Institute of Technology · South Korea

Advanced the lab's work in wireless communications, UAV reconnaissance and emerging IoT, co-authoring two patents and ten publications, and contributing to a successful A$80K grant from the Korean National Research Foundation.

§ 02 · Education

Two tracks, five degrees: a technical path through engineering and research, and a practice path through leadership and teaching.

Engineering & Research 3 degrees

Three degrees in engineering and computer science, culminating in a doctorate on IoT security.

2025

PhD, Engineering & Computer Science

Security for the IoT in Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

The Australian National University, Australia

2020

MEng, IT Convergence Engineering

Deep Learning for Future-Generation Wireless Communication

Kumoh Institute of Technology, South Korea

2017

BSc, Electrical Engineering

University Gold Medal, highest GPA in the program

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan

Leadership & Teaching 3 degrees

Graduate study in management and higher-education practice, alongside the day job.

2026

MBA, Project Management & Leadership

Strategy, governance and project leadership

Kaplan Business School, Australia

2026

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education

Learning & Teaching

Deakin University, Australia

2025

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration

Project Management & Leadership

Kaplan Business School, Australia

§ 03 · Research

Three interlocking threads, each on its own a thesis, together a research agenda for a connected, contested world.

01

Cybersecurity for IoT

Authentication, key-exchange and physical-layer security for resource-constrained devices, from sensor meshes to satellite-linked endpoints. Building beyond key-based paradigms toward continuous, contextual trust.

  • Authentication
  • Key agreement
  • Phy-layer security
  • AKMA
02

Privacy-preserving ML

Machine-learning systems that work on data without seeing it. Federated and split-learning architectures tuned for the bandwidth, energy and adversary models of real edge deployments.

  • Federated learning
  • Split learning
  • Differential privacy
03

Non-terrestrial networks

Securing the LEO-satellite layer of the future internet: decentralised authentication, intelligent-reflecting-surface aided communication and deep-learning detection across 6G channels.

  • LEO satellite
  • IRS
  • 6G
  • NOMA

§ 04 · Selected work

Selected publications across IEEE flagships, surveys and signal-processing venues.

2025

Modified AKMA for Decentralized Authentication in LEO Satellite-Based IoT Networks

S. Khan, S. Durrani, C. Thapa, S. Camtepe

IEEE Internet of Things Journal IF 8.2
2024

Access-based Lightweight Physical Layer Authentication for the Internet of Things Devices

S. Khan, C. Thapa, S. Durrani, S. Camtepe

IEEE Internet of Things Journal IF 8.2
2023

Joint User and Data Detection in Grant-Free NOMA with Attention-Based BiLSTM Network

S. Khan, S. Durrani, M. B. Shahab, S. J. Johnson, S. Camtepe

IEEE Open J. of the Communications Society IF 6.3
2023

Resource Allocation for IRS-Assisted Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

S. Ahmad, S. Khan, K. S. Khan, F. Naeem, M. Tariq

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine IF 5.4
2023

Beyond Key-based Authentication: A Novel Continuous Authentication Paradigm for IoTs

S. Khan, C. Thapa, S. Durrani, S. Camtepe

IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur Conference
2022

IRS-Empowered 6G Networks: Deployment Strategies, Performance Optimization, and Future Directions

F. Naeem, G. Kaddoum, S. Khan, K. S. Khan, N. Adam

IEEE Access IF 3.4
2019

Deep Learning Aided Transmit Power Estimation in Mobile Communication System

S. Khan, S. Y. Shin

IEEE Communications Letters IF 3.7

+ 16 more · 2 patents · h-index drawn from Google Scholar

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§ 05 · Grants & awards

Selected awards, scholarships and compute allocations across the doctoral and post-doctoral period.

Compute · NCI HPC allocation

Security for Integrated Sensing and Communications in IoT Networks

National Computational Infrastructure · Partner Investigator 2023 to 2024
Award · Kaplan Global recognition

KaplanWay Award, Global Winner, Continuous Transformation

Kaplan · Innovation in teaching using GenAI 2024
Scholarship · Australian Govt. A$34,000 / yr

Research Training Program

Australian Government · PhD scholarship 2020 to 2024
Scholarship · CSIRO A$7,000 / yr

CSIRO Top-Up Scholarship

CSIRO · PhD top-up scholarship 2021 to 2024
Scholarship · Kumoh Full stipend

International Merit Scholarship

Kumoh Institute of Technology · Master of Engineering 2018 to 2020

§ 06 · Service

Governance, accreditation and peer review for the disciplines I work in.

Committees & boards

  • Academic Board Member · KBS
  • Grade Ratification & Assessment Committee Member · KBS
  • Teaching & Learning Committee Member · KBS
  • Board of Examiners Member · KBS

Accreditation leadership

  • Master of Business Analytics Project Lead · CDP Chair
  • Graduate Certificate in GenAI for Business Co-Project Lead · CDP Chair
  • Master of Applied Cybersecurity Co-Project Lead · CDP Member

Peer review

  • IEEE Transactions on Communications Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Reviewer
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Reviewer

Certifications & memberships

IBM · Pen Testing, IR & Forensics EC-Council · Ethical Hacking EC-Council · Network Defense Microsoft · Cybersecurity Essentials Stanford · Machine Learning TAE40122 · Training & Assessment ACS Certified Technologist IEEE Member

If our work overlaps, on secure systems, AI-driven curriculum, or anything between, let's talk.

Email
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