Shuaib Siddiqui, PhD

Research Area Director | i2CAT

Dr. Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui is a senior researcher at i2CAT Foundation where he is also the Area Manager for Software Networks research lab and Research Manager of Cyber security lab. His current research topics include network automation, SDN/NFV based control, management, & orchestration platforms for 5G, network slicing, NFV/SDN security and 5G security. Currently, he is also coordinating the H2020 5GZORRO (5G PPP Phase 3 project). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPC (Spain), M.Sc. in Communication Systems (2007) from EPFL, Switzerland, and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2004) from KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. One of his publications, based on his PhD thesis, received the IEEE Internet Technical Committee (ITC) paper of the year award for 2015.