Education

• 2006

  Bachelor degree from Computer Science Faculty of Computing and Information Technology , King Abdulaziz University , جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2013

  Master degree from Computer ScienceComputer Science, California Lutheran University, Califonia, امــريــكـا

• 2018

  Doctorate degree from Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science , University of Southampton , Southampton , بريطانيا

Employment

• 2006-2010

  Supervisor and coordinator, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2010-2018

  Lecturer, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2018-2020

  Head of Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2018-2021

  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Jeddah, المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2020-حاليا

  Vice Dean, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, , المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2020-حاليا

  College Council Secretary, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, , المملكة العربية السعودية

• 2021-حاليا

  Associate Professor, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, , المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

I am a Ph.D. holder in computer science, I am interested in multidisciplinary research topics to pertain to computer science which includes and not limited to: Cloud Security Adoption,  Risks, Cloud Migration Project Management and  Cloud of Things Security Threats.

Journals, Books & Chapters:

•   Monowar, Muhammad M.; Alassafi, Madini O. (2020) "On the Design of Thermal-Aware Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for IoT Healthcare." Sensors 20, no. 5: 1243, DOI :
• 10.3390/s20051243
• M. S. Ferdous, F. Chowdhury, M. O. Alassafi, A. A. Alshdadi and V. Chang, (2020)"Social Anchor: Privacy-friendly Attribute Aggregation from Social Networks," in IEEE Access, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981553
• Raza, Ali; Shakeel, Armughan; Altalbe, Ali; O. Alassafi, Madini; Yasin, Abdul R. 2020. "Impacts of MT-HVDC Systems on Enhancing the Power Transmission Capability." Appl. Sci. 10, no. 1: 242, DOI:10.3390/app10010242
• Madini O. Alassafi, Hany F. Atlam, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Abdullah I. Alzahrani, Rayed A. AlGhamdi, Seyed M. Buhari, (2019) "A Validation Of Security Determinants Model For Cloud Adoption In Saudi Organisations??? Context", International Journal Of Information Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s41870-019-00360-4
• Madini O. Alassafi, Rayed AlGhamdi, Abdulrahman Alshdadi, Abdulwahid Al Abdulwahid, Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh, (2019) "Determining Factors Pertaining To Cloud Security Adoption Framework In Government Organizations: An Exploratory Study", Ieee Access, vol: 7, pp. 136822-136835
  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2942424
• Sabeen Tahir, Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh, Maysoon Abulkhair, Madini O Alassafi, (2019) "An Energy-Efficient Fog-To-Cloud Internet Of Medical Things Architecture", International Journal Of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol: 15, pp. 155014771985197
  DOI: 10.1177/1550147719851977
• M. S. Ferdous, F. Chowdhury and M. O. Alassafi, (2019) "In Search of Self-Sovereign Identity Leveraging Blockchain Technology," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 103059-103079, 2019.
• M. Awais, M.J. Iqbal, I. Ahmad, M. O. Alassafi, R.A. AlGhamdi, M. Basheri, M. Waqas, (2019) "Real- Time Surveillance Through Face Recognition Using Hog And Feedforward Neural Networks", Ieee Access, pp. 1-1
  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2937810
• Imran Khan, Mohammed H. Alsharif, Mohammad Haseeb Zafar, Madini O. Alassafi, Majid Ashraf, Yongming Huang, Jeong Kim, Jin Hong Kim, (2019) "An Efficient Algorithm For Mmwave Mimo Systems", Symmetry, vol: 11, pp. 786
  DOI: 10.3390/sym11060786
• Atlam, H. F., Alenezi, A., Alassafi, M. O., & Wills, G. B. (2018). Blockchain with Internet of Things : Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA).
• Alzahrani, Abdullah, Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2018). A Framework For Gamified E-Learning Systems Acceptance In Saudi Arabian Universities : Gamified E- Learning Systems. International Journal of Advances in Electronics and Computer Science, (4), 33–37.
• Hina Bhanbhro, Syed Raheel Hassan, Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh and Madini O.Alassafi, “Enhanced Textual Password Scheme for Better Security and Memorability” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(ijacsa), 9(7), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090730
• Alassafi, M. O., Alharthi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). Towards Developing an Integrated Framework for Investigating the Security Affect the Cloud Computing Adoption: Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions.
• Alassafi, M. O., Alharthi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). A framework for critical security factors that influence the decision of cloud adoption by Saudi government agencies. Telematics and Informatics, 34(7), 996–1010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.04.010
• Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Alzahrani, A. I., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). Critical Success Factors for Cloud Migration in Higher Education Institutions: A Conceptual Framework. International Journal of Intelligent Computing Research (IJICR), 8(1), 817–825.
• Alassafi, M. O., & Alsenani, Y. S. (2016). Inverse Matrix using Gauss Elimination Method by OpenMP. International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, 8(2), 41–46. https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.02.05
• Alassafi, M. O., Alharthi, A., Alenezi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, Gary. B. (2016). Investigating the Security Factors in Cloud Computing Adoption: Towards Developing an Integrated Framework. Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (JITST), 5(2), 486–494.
• Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2016). An exploratory study for investigating the critical success factors for cloud migration in the Saudi Arabian higher education context. Telematics and Informatics, 34(2), 664–678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.10.008
• Ahmed Alenezi, Hany Atlam, Reem Alsagri, Madini Alassafi, Gary Wills, "Iot Forensics: A State-Of- The-Art Review, Challenges and Future Directions", 4th International Conference On Complexity, Future Information Systems And Risk, pp. 106-115:DOI: 10.5220/0007905401060115
• Alassafi, M. O., Alharthi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2016). Security Risk factors that influence Cloud Computing Adoption in Saudi Arabia Government Agencies. I-Society Conferance IEEE Advance Technology for Humanity, 1, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854165
• Ahmed Albugmi; Alassafi, Madini O.; Robert, Walters; Gary, W. (2016). Data Security in Cloud Computing. Fifth International Conferance on FGCT IEEE, 2(1), 1–169.
• Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). Towards a framework to enable the migration process to educational clouds in Saudi higher education. In International Conference on Information Society, i-Society 2016 (pp. 73–76). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854179
• Alzahrani, Abdullah, Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2018). A Framework for Gamified E-Learning Systems Acceptance in Saudi Arabian Universities: Gamified E-Learning ... 332nd International Conference on E-Education, E- Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4E) At Istanbul, Turkey, (Feb)
• Atlam, H. F., Alassafi, M. O., Alenezi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2018). XACML to Build Access Control Policies for Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2018)At19 - 21 March, 2018, Madeira - Portugal, (March)
• Alenezi, A.; Atlam, H.; Alsagri, R.; Alassafi, M. and Wills, G. (2019). IoT Forensics: A State-of-the-Art Review, Challenges and Future Directions. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS, ISBN 978-989-758-366-7, pages 106-115. DOI: 10.5220/0007905401060115
• Atlam H.F., Alenezi A., Alassafi M.O., Alshdadi A.A., Wills G.B. (2020) Security, Cybercrime and Digital Forensics for IoT. In: Peng SL., Pal S., Huang L. (eds) Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem: Insight Paradigm. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 174. Springer, Cham, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33596-0_2
• Alassafi, M. O., Hussain, R. K., Ghashgari, G., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). Security in Organisations: Governance, Risks and Vulnerabilities in Moving to the Cloud. In Enterprise Security, Springer (pp. 241–258). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54380-2_11
• Md Sadek Ferdous, Raid Khalid Hussein, Madini O. Alassafi, Abdulrahman Alharthi, Robert J. Walters, Gary Wills: Threat Taxonomy for Cloud of Things. Internet of Things and Big Data Analysis: Recent Trends and Challenges, 1 edited by United Scholars Publications, USA, 11/2016: chapter 5: pages 25; United Scholars Publications, USA.

Conference Proceedings

Alassafi, M. O., Alharthi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2016). Security Risk factors that influence Cloud Computing Adoption in Saudi Arabia Government Agencies. I-Society Conferance IEEE Advance Technology for Humanity, 1, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854165

Ahmed Albugmi; Alassafi, Madini O.; Robert, Walters; Gary, W. (2016). Data Security in Cloud Computing. Fifth International Conferance on FGCT IEEE, 2(1), 1–169.

Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2017). Towards a framework to enable the migration process to educational clouds in Saudi higher education. In International Conference on Information Society, i-Society 2016 (pp. 73–76). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2016.7854179

Alzahrani, Abdullah, Alharthi, A., Alassafi, M. O., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2018). A Framework for Gamified E-Learning Systems Acceptance in Saudi Arabian Universities : Gamified E-Learning ... 332nd International Conference on E-Education, E- Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4E)AtIstanbul, Turkey, (Feb)

Atlam, H. F., Alassafi, M. O., Alenezi, A., Walters, R. J., & Wills, G. B. (2018). XACML to Build Access Control Policies for Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2018)At19 - 21 March, 2018, Madeira - Portugal, (March)

Scientific interests

CONFERENCES ATTENDED AND PARTICAPATED:

• In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and
Security (IoTBDS 2018).
• Public Sector Cyber Security Conference: Defending the Public from Cyber-Attacks 17th
May 2017.
• The Science Collaboration Symposium on Cyber Security, University of Manchester, 14-
16 Nov 2017.
• Fifth International Conference on FGCT IEEE, 2016.
• I-Society Conference IEEE Advance Technology for Humanity.
• In International Conference on Information Society, i-Society 2016.
• 2nd International Conference on the Internet of Things, Big Data and Security IoTBDS
2017.
• 32nd International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management, and ELearning
(IC4E).

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Cloud Computing Adoption
• Information Security
• Cloud Migration
• Cloud Security
• Networking
• Distributed Systems 
• Risks and Security Threats 
• Cloud of Things & Internet of Things

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