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Ali Shoker

Research Associate Professor, Computer Science

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division
Email icon ali.shoker@kaust.edu.sa
Website icon Cyber Security and Resilience Technology (CyberSaR)

We pioneer cybersecurity and resilience by design in a mission to generate unique societal solutions "that work" and help spearhead Saudi research and innovation, putting humanity at the forefront. 

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Biography

Ali Shoker is a research associate professor leading the Cyber Security and Resilience Technology (CyberSaR) Lab. He was a cofounding member of KAUST’s cybersecurity and resilience initiatives, including the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3), and previously co-founded the Cyber Security and Cyber-Physical Systems (Vortex CoLab) at Capgemini, Portugal. 
Shoker earned his Ph.D. with European distinction from the University of Toulouse and has held research positions at EPFL, INSA de Lyon, INESC TEC, and Capgemini, contributing to both academic breakthroughs and industrial innovation. He is recognized for his pioneering work on resilient decentralized systems (conflict-free replicated data types, or CRDT, and blockchain), for which he holds a sole-inventor patent, and has received international honors including the IFIP Best Paper Award. 
Shoker champions a vision of “cybersecurity and resilience by design”, leveraging the triad of distributed systems, hardware, and trustworthy AI, with applications spanning SOC operations, SIGINT, post-quantum cryptography, autonomous systems, New Space, mobile systems, and blockchain/fintech technologies.

Research Interests

Shoker‘s research interests revolve around understanding and building cyber-secure, resilient, scalable, available, efficient, green, smart, and distributed systems. He is interested in building tools and applications related to security operation centers (SOC), e.g., SOAR, SIEM, XDR, IDS, IPS, etc.; the automotive industry (i.e., autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, V2X); cyber-physical systems (smart and connected infrastructures); secure/resilient hardware system-on-a-chip (FPGA, ASIC); New Ppace (microsatellite) systems; and blockchain/distributed ledgers, signal security, etc.
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new space security automotive security post-quantum cryptography signal security blockchain

Education Profile

  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Computer and Communications Engineering, University of Toulouse, France, 2012

  • Master of Science (M.S.), Information and Communication Technology, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 2008

  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 2006

Awards and Recognitions

  • Best Paper Award, DisCoTec conferences (COORDINATION, DAIS, FORTE)., IFIP, 2024 

  • LimeLight Award, INESC TEC, 2017 

  • Ph.D. Scholarship, Toulouse University, 2009-2012 

  • Outstanding Masters scholarship, University of Toulouse, 2008 

Publications

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