Dr Rajkumar Rathore
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science & Programme Director MSc Computing and IT
Cardiff School of Technologies
Overview
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 cluster head of a Responsible and Transparent Artificial Intelligence Research Cluster (RTAR-C) consisting of 15 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 is 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 Responsible AI, 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.
Research Publications
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., 16 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Systems Architecture. p. 103707Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Enhanced Quantum-Inspired Metaheuristic Framework for Federated Trust Management and Blockchain-Enabled Privacy in Large-Scale Internet of Vehicles
Singh, A. R., Ashraf, M. W. A., Rathore, R. S., Bhatt, M. W., Bajaj, M. & Atrekar, V., 12 Jan 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Low-Cost Malware Detection with Artificial Intelligence on Single Board Computers
Steadman, P., Jenkins, P., Rathore, R. S. & Hewage, C., 11 Jan 2026, In: Future Internet. 18, 1, p. 46 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Federated Blockchain-Based Resilient Identity Management for Securing Consumer Vehicular Networks
Srivastava, S., Agarwal, D., Chaurasia, B. K., Singh, V. K., Rathore, R. S. & Jiang, W., 25 Dec 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Noise-Resilient Deep Learning Architecture for Bearing Fault Diagnosis in Integrated IoT Sensing–Computing Environments
Jain, N., Singh, V. K., Singh, C., Tripathi, G., Rathore, R. S. & Chaudhary, D., 16 Dec 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 0b00006494e8a839.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Selection of Optimal Cluster Head Using MOPSO and Decision Tree for Cluster-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks
Mishra, R., Jha, S. K., Prakash, S. & Rathore, R. S., 14 Dec 2025, In: Future Internet. 17, 12, 577.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mitigating class imbalance in forest fire prediction with GAN-Augmented data fusion
Singh, V. K., Agarwal, D., Gediya, V. K., Rathore, R. S. & Jiang, W., 1 Dec 2025, In: Information Fusion. 129, 104005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Influence of Scalable Quantum Cryptography in Cybersecure Space
Rajput, U., Srivastava, H., Tripathy, H. K., Rathore, R. S., Wang, L. & Liu, X., 25 Nov 2025, 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. 509-524 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1495 LNNS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Adaptive fault tolerance mechanisms for ensuring high availability of digital twins in distributed edge computing systems
Sahu, D., Nidhi, Prakash, S., Yang, T., Rathore, R. S., Wang, L., Sharma, U. & Alsolbi, I., 24 Nov 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 41676.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Adaptive fault tolerance mechanisms for ensuring high availability of digital twins in distributed edge computing systems
Sahu, D., Nidhi, Prakash, S., Yang, T., Rathore, R. S., Wang, L., Sharma, U. & Alsolbi, I., 24 Nov 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 41676.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review