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
Minimum Viable Malware-image Resolution for ESP32-S3 Edge Triage
Steadman, P., Jenkins, P., Rathore, R. S. & Hewage, C., 18 Sept 2026, In: Journal of Communications. 21, 5, p. 644-655 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Secure 3D Drone Localization using Active Watermarked Ranging and Adaptive Swarm Optimization Against AI-Enabled Anchor Spoofing
Singh, V. K., Jain, N., Singh, C., Alzaben, N., Rathore, R. S. & Hewage, C., 17 Sept 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Real-Time Anomaly Detection Using Federated Learning in Edge Devices
Joshi, V., Chowdhury, A., Pal, A., Singh, V. K. & Rathore, R. S., 8 Sept 2026, In: Software - Practice and Experience.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
ILAGKDF-IoD: An Intelligent Lightweight Authentication and Group Key Distribution Framework for Covert Communications in Next-Generation Internet of Drones Networks
Tiwari, P. K., Tripathi, A., Rathore, R. S., Prakash, S., Shukla, N. K., Jiang, W. & Tripathi, S., 27 Aug 2026, In: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 7, p. 10942-10960 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
When Content Signals Lose Credibility: Signalling Equilibria on Human-Centred Platforms in the LLM Era
He, M., Jiang, W., Shaheen, M., Xie, H., Sun, M., Rathore, R. S. & Gu, W., 26 Aug 2026, In: Expert Systems. 43, 10, e70403.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Multimodal multi-teacher knowledge distillation with Keyword Attention for Health Mention Classification
Singh, V. K., Anand, N., Bhalekar, A. M. & Singh Rathore, R., 21 Aug 2026, In: Pattern Recognition. 181, 114679.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Tiny-IDS: A Pruned Ensemble Distillation Pipeline for Lightweight and Explainable IoT Intrusion Detection
Bahadur, S., Jha, S. K., Rathore, R. S., Prakash, S., Singh, V. K. & Tripathi, S., 28 Jul 2026, In: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 7, p. 9256-9267 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A systematic literature review of large language models in phishing attack generation and detection
Sivaneswaran, D., Hewage, C. T. E. R., Herath, H. M. K. K. M. B., Rathore, R. S., Singh, V. K. & Jiang, W., Jul 2026, In: Array. 30, 100775.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Malware Detection—A Comparative Analysis of RISC-V and ARM Architectures
Steadman, P., Jenkins, P., Rathore, R. S. & Hewage, C., 17 May 2026, Contributions Presented at the International Conference on Computing, Communication, Cybersecurity and AI - The C3AI 2025. Naik, N., Grace, P., Jenkins, P. & Prajapat, S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 351-369 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 1811 LNNS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
QSFedMA: Quantum‐Secured Authentication Protocol for Privacy‐Preserving Federated IoMT
Goel, A., Nair, A., Chawla, D., Singh Mehra, P., Singh Rathore, R. & Jiang, W., 19 Apr 2026, In: Software: Practice and Experience. 56, 7, p. 823-832 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review