Cyber Security Department

MUET Jamshoro

Saqib Hussain

Saqib Hussain

Lecturer

BS Cyber Security

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

B.E, M.E (MUET), PhD (in progress)

Lecturer in BS Cyber Security and PhD candidate in Telecommunication Engineering. Huawei-certified (HCIA, HCIP), Huawei ICT Competition Most Valuable Instructor and Top 10 finisher at the Ignite Cyber Security Hackathon 2024.

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7+

Years Teaching & Training (since 2019)

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5

Publications

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3.87

M.E. CGPA (out of 4.0)

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3

Competition Placements

👤About

Engr. Saqib Hussain is a Lecturer in the BS Cyber Security programme at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET), Jamshoro, a post he has held since August 2025. He previously served as a Research Associate in BS Cyber Security (2023–2025) and as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering (2019–2021).

He completed his M.E. in Telecommunication Engineering & Management at MUET with a CGPA of 3.87/4.0. His thesis, "Towards Automated Recognition of Schizophrenia from EEG Signals", was supervised by Dr. Zafi Sherhan Shah with Dr. Nasrullah Pirzada as co-supervisor. He earned his B.E. in Telecommunication Engineering from MUET with a thesis on a wearable antenna for real-time health monitoring, and has been enrolled in the PhD in Telecommunication Engineering at MUET since February 2023.

His work spans machine learning for biomedical signals and speech, antenna design for wireless body area networks, and network security and infrastructure. He holds Huawei HCIA certifications across Datacom, Security, WLAN, Big Data, AI and IoT, and the HCIP in Routing & Switching, and has trained students for Huawei ICT competitions.

🎓Education

Feb 2023 – Present

PhD in Telecommunication Engineering (enrolled)

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

M.E. in Telecommunication Engineering & Management

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Thesis: Towards Automated Recognition of Schizophrenia from EEG Signals

CGPA: 3.87 / 4.0

Jan 2014 – Nov 2017

B.E. in Telecommunication Engineering

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Thesis: Design of Wearable Antenna for Real Time Health Monitoring

CGPA: 3.37 / 4.0

💼Professional Experience

Aug 2025 – Present

Lecturer, BS Cyber Security

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Jun 2023 – Jul 2025

Research Associate, BS Cyber Security

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022

Instructor, Advanced Python Programming & Applications (NAVTTC)

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021

Optical Fiber System Trainer (BBSYDP)

Department of Telecommunication Engineering, MUET

Mar 2019 – May 2021

Teaching Assistant

Department of Telecommunication Engineering, MUET

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018

ICT Intern, Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB)

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

📚Publications

2021

Evaluating Domain Knowledge and Time Series Features for Automated Detection of Schizophrenia from EEG Signals

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 12, Issue 11

2021

Emotion Recognition of Low Resource (Sindhi) Language Using Machine Learning

International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 369–376

2020

Spectrum Occupancy Measurement of Cellular Spectrum and Smart Network Sharing in Pakistan

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 11, Issue 3

2019

Comparative Study of Microstrip Patch Antenna with Different Shapes and its Application

2nd International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies (iCoMET 2019)

2018

Design of Wearable Patch Antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 9, Issue 9

🏆Presentations & Achievements

  • 2026Selected as Most Valuable Instructor at the Huawei ICT Competition Global Finals 2026, Shenzhen, China.
  • 2024Top 10 in the Cyber Security Hackathon organized by Ignite, held in Karachi (October 2024).
  • 2020Second position in the Huawei ICT Middle East Competition (December 2020).

📜Certifications

  • ✔HUAWEI Certified ICT Associate: HCIA-Datacom
  • ✔HUAWEI Certified ICT Associate: HCIA-Security
  • ✔HUAWEI Certified ICT Associate: HCIA-WLAN
  • ✔HUAWEI Certified ICT Associate: HCIA-Big Data, AI and IoT
  • ✔HUAWEI Certified ICT Professional: HCIP-Routing & Switching (September 2020)
  • ✔Registered Engineer, Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)

⚙️Technical Skills

Linux Python C / C++ OOP MATLAB Machine Learning Wireshark Huawei eNSP Cisco Packet Tracer HFSS Antenna Simulation Vector Network Analyzer NI Multisim OptiSystem OTDR Arduino & Raspberry Pi LaTeX