Who We Are

The Secure Systems Research Center (SSRC) leads the development of end-to-end security and resilience for cyber-physical and autonomous systems. Our multi-disciplinary approach allows us to combine domain knowledge with security and resilience technologies, delivering breakthroughs in applied research that benefit society, support smart cities and boost economic development.

SSRC is part of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global scientific research center attracting the world’s foremost scientists and researchers. TII leads worldwide advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, quantum computing, cryptography and quantum communications, directed energy, secure communication, smart devices, advanced materials, and propulsion and space technologies, and biotechnology fields.

TII belongs to the Abu Dhabi Government’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), which oversees the technology research in the emirate.

What We Do

We utilize hands-on applications to demonstrate the power and scope of our pioneering technologies in the real world, and enable their rapid adoption by our commercial and industrial partners.

With a core focus on a cluster of key domains - from next generation secure smartphones to autonomous drones – our work catalyzes advanced use cases and creates proprietary technologies to improve system security and establish a secure and robust digital ecosystem for the UAE and the wider region.

Our Team
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Michael Graham Baddeley
Senior Director, Wireless Protocols Researcher
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Abhilash KayyidaVazhiyil
Senior Director
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Kamel Slimani
Senior Director, Wireless Embedded System
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Clifford Quadros
Senior Director System Analyst
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Van Le
Program Delivery Director
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John Durotifa-Babatunde
Director
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Damien De Maya
Program Director, Secure Communications
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Mahnoor Mazhar Monga
Senior Project Manager
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Abdulla Nabeel Saleh Ali Alawlaqi
Business Development Manager
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Sara Awadh Omar Awadh Sumaidaa
Technical Delivery Manager
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Aaref Yousef Ali Mohammed AlHammadi
Project Specialist
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Anshul Pandey
Senior Wireless Researcher
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Kumar Murugesan
Lead Wireless Network Engineer
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Kavin Thangadorai
Principal Researcher, Wireless Connectivity
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Alessandro Sappia
Principal Embedded System Engineer
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Srikar Bhava Narayana
Principal Engineer
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Jigyasu Chand
Engineer, System Test
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Zahid Basha Shaik Kadu
Senior Software Developer
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Hyunmin Kim
Senior Researcher
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Sumit Kumar Sharma
Engineer, System Test
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Sooraj Korakkodath Siddarthan
Senior Hardware Engineer
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Nyiko Mavodze
Senior HW Validation Engineer
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Sumeet Bharadwaj Panda
Lead Engineer, Secure Autonomous Systems
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Induja Babu
Senior Engineer
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Aleksei Shebalov
Lead Integration Engineer
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Ari Wahyudi
Communications System Engineer
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Junior Sundar
Lead Engineer
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Ivan Trubachev
Lead Platform Engineer
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Monika Prakash
Lead Researcher
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Kyu Suk Han
Principle Researcher
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Hamda AlMenhali
Senior Associate Researcher
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Appar Thusoo
Senior Engineer, Security
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Abdelmoumen Benamarouche
Lead Engineer, Penetration Test
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Mohammed Ali Faris Salim Alazzani
Associate Researcher
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Khadija Muhsen Mubarak Alareefi AlMessabi
Associate Researcher
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Hessa Saif Almur Rashed Alnuaimi
Associate Researcher
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Dania Hesham Herzalla
Senior Associate
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Shamma Alhosani
Engineer, Drone Regulation and Certification
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Karthikeyan Arunachalam
Lead Researcher - Secure Authentication and Authorization
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Ali Alghfeli
Lead Engineer
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Mohamed Maohoub
Lead Engineer​
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Fouzia Hussain​
Integration Engineer​
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Marwan Aldahmani
Associate Researcher
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Abdulrahman Muammar Ali Ahmed Banabila
Researcher
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Latifa Mubarak Saeed Suhail Alameri
Project Coordinator