Abdullah is a network and embedded system professional. He has done his bachelor's in Electronics Engineering from GIKI in 2014 and a master’s in Electrical Engineering from the NUST, Pakistan in 2019. He has secured a PhD Doctoral Training Program (DTP) fellowship from RISE and currently doing his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (UCY), Cyprus. He is also working as a Research Associate (Doctoral Training Program) in RISE where his objective is to develop novel security algorithms for resources constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices.