Dr. Mamoona Asghar (former Marie Skłodowska Curie Career-FIT Postdoctoral Fellow) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway, Ireland. She received her PhD degree in Computing and Electronic Systems from University of Essex, Colchester, UK. She is an applied cybersecurity expert with nearly two decades of international academic experience across Ireland, the UK, and Pakistan. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and has published over 100 research articles across cybersecurity (cryptography, malware analysis, threat intelligence), AI (ML, DL, ontologies, computer vision), image/video processing, privacy engineering, and regulatory compliance (GDPR and AI Act).
Dr. Asghar has secured numerous competitive research grants from major national and international programmes, including Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, Enterprise Ireland, EU INTERREG, the Irish Research Council, Research Ireland centres, Data2Sustain, and industry partners such as Cisco and Siren. She actively contributes to the research community by organising conferences and workshops in cybersecurity. Beyond disseminating her research, she also contributes to cybersecurity awareness initiatives and regularly delivers invited talks on emerging cybersecurity challenges.
Her contributions to cybersecurity research, innovation, workforce development, awareness, and mentoring (which include the supervision of 10 PhDs (6 graduated) and mentoring of 6 research staff), have earned her national and international awards including “Most Inspiring Woman in Cyber 2025, BT Towers, London”. Her sustained community service reflects a strong and lasting impact on both the research community and the next generation of technology leaders.
