Muhammad Shahbaz Khan (Senior Member IEEE, Member IET) is an experienced academic and researcher with over 10 years of research and teaching experience across leading institutions including Edinburgh Napier University (UK), De Montfort University (UK), and HITEC University (Pakistan). He holds a PhD in Computing from Edinburgh Napier University. He has published 50+ peer-reviewed papers in top journals such as IEEE Transactions, and ACM Transactions, and presented at Rank A/A1 conferences. He serves as an Associate/Guest Editor for reputed journals and has chaired/organised special sessions at top-tier conferences. He has a track record of securing funding grants and has secured £40K+ in competitive funding as a Co-Investigator. He has led UKRI CyberASAP, Scottish Funding Council, and Carnegie Trust projects on Post-Quantum Cryptography as a Research Lead. His research focuses on quantum image encryption, quantum machine learning, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), quantum AI agents, and Trust & Privacy in cyber-physical systems.

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• Senior Member IEEE
• Member IET
• Member PKIC

• Scottish Funding Council (Quantum-ARC)
  Project: Scotland–England Collaboration on Developing Human Resource in Quantum Technologies in Healthcare (2025)
• CyberASAP UKRI
  Project: Protecting Medical Data: A Novel AI-Driven E-Healthcare Solution using PQC (2025)
• CyberASAP UKRI
  Project: SafeNet: Unleashing Robust Security Measures to Safeguard IoT Networks (2025)
• Najran University KSA
  Project: Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cyber Security Techniques for Robust IoT Security (2024)

Post-Quantum Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Quantum Image Enctyption, Quantum Machine Leanring, Trust & Privacy in Cyberphysical Systems.