Personal profile
Research interests
Dr. Rajkumar Singh Rathore currently serves as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Program Director for the MSc in Computing and IT within the School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. He leads the Cyber-Physical and Networked Systems group at the CeRISS Research Centre and heads the Cybersecurity initiatives for Connected and Autonomous Systems at the CINC Research Centre. As a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom, Dr. Rathore has amassed several years of experience in scholarship of teaching learning and research excellence. He is the chair of a Transparent, Accountable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group (TAR-AI) with several international universities for joint research endeavours.
An accomplished academic, he has co-authored multiple textbooks tailored for BSc and MSc programs in Computer Science. He actively contributes to the academic community, having served as a Technical Program Committee chair and as a keynote speaker at several esteemed international conferences.
Dr. Rathore is a founding member of the IEEE Trustworthy Internet of Things (TRUST-IoT) Working Group and ACM Emerging Interest Group on Trustworthy and Responsible Systems. Dr Rathore is also a member of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee for AI, Data Science, Autonomous systems and Cybersecurity. His research interests are diverse and include the Transparent, Accountable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things/Cyber Physical Systems, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles(CAVs), EV Charging Infrastructure Management, Smart Grid, Intelligent Networking of Drones and use cases of AI/ML.
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Special Issue Guest Editor at Discover Computing Springer Publisher, SCIE, SCOPUS indexed
Enhancing Smart Grid Security, Efficiency and Resilience: The Role of AI and Blockchain in EV Charging
Lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "AI-Driven Security and Efficiency in Next-Gen E-Mobility Ecosystem" IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
T-ITS Special Issues - IEEE ITSS
Special Issue editor Scientific Reports : Autonomos Systems and Vehicles
Autonomous systems and vehicles
Lead Guest Editor "Recent Progress for Smart Energy and Industrial IoT"- Energies
Energies | Special Issue : Recent Progress for Smart Energy and Industrial IoT
Guest Editor "Sustainable Urban Air Mobility and Intelligent Transport Systems"- Urban Science
Urban Science | Special Issue : Sustainable Urban Air Mobility and Intelligent Transport Systems
Keywords
- QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
- Wireless Communications
- Cybersecurity and Privacy
- IoT/Cyber Physical Systems
- Intelligent Networking of Drones
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- EV Charging Infrastructure Management
- AI/ML Use Cases
- Energy Harvesting WSN
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Convergent Framework of Predictive Learning Intelligence with Secure Blockchain in Healthcare
Ojha, S. K., Mishra, S., Mallick, R. D., Yang, T., Wang, L. & Rathore, R. S., 15 Jan 2026, Proceedings of 6th Doctoral Symposium on Computational Intelligence - DoSCI 2025. Swaroop, A., Kansal, V. & Hassanien, A. E. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 685-692 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1498 LNNS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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A Hybrid Blockchain Framework for Securing Healthcare Data: Balancing Privacy and Scalability
Banerjee, D., Sharma, J., Chilluri, V. S. B., Yang, T., Wang, L. & Rathore, R. S., 10 Jan 2026, Proceedings of International Conference on Computing Systems and Intelligent Applications - ComSIA 2025. Jaiswal, A., Anand, S., Hassanien, A. E. & Azar, A. T. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 229-238 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1501 LNNS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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AIMD: AI-powered android malware detection for securing AIoT devices and networks using graph embedding and ensemble learning
Smmarwar, S. K., Priyadarshi, R., Angaitkar, P., Mishra, S. & Rathore, R. S., 23 Jan 2026, In: Journal of Systems Architecture. 173, p. 103707 103707.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Multi-layered Cyber Secure Model for 5G Cellular Networks
Ondhia, Y., Mishra, Y., Chanda, S., Yang, T., Wang, L. & Rathore, R. S., 9 Jan 2026, Proceedings of Sixth Doctoral Symposium on Computational Intelligence - DoSCI 2025. Swaroop, A., Kansal, V. & Hassanien, A. E. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 655-664 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1497 LNNS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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An Efficient IoT Security Prediction Framework
Sinha, P., Prakash, S., Jha, S. K., Gupta, T. K., Rathore, R. S. & Yadav, S. K., 20 Feb 2026, 2025 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Green Industrial Electronics and Sustainable Technologies (GIEST). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 1-5 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review