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Dr Kassim Kalinaki

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Dr. Kassim Kalinaki (Member, IEEE) is a computer science researcher, technologist, and educator with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry expertise. He holds a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Kyambogo University, a Diploma in IT, as well as BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). In addition to his academic qualifications, Dr. Kalinaki has obtained several industry-recognized certifications in cybersecurity and Big Data Analytics, solidifying his reputation as a trusted advisor to organizations striving for digital transformation and resilience.
His research areas include: Ecological Informatics, Healthcare Informatics, Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Digital Image Processing, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), Remote Sensing, and Educational Technologies. He has authored and co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles published by leading publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IGI Global, Emerald, Wiley, IEEE, and MDPI, advancing state-of-the-art research and innovation. He also serves as a reviewer for numerous international journals, contributing to the quality and integrity of scholarly output in his fields.
Since 2014, Dr. Kalinaki has lectured at the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU), where he served as Head of the Computer Science Department from 2019 to 2022. Passionate about mentorship and knowledge-sharing, he is committed to shaping future-ready talent and fostering technological innovations that contribute to building a secure, intelligent, and sustainable digital world.

  1. Kassim Kalinaki, Abubakar Kalinaki (2025). Big Data’s Impact on Healthcare and Bioinformatics. Springer
  2. Wasswa Shafik, Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Kassim Kalinaki (2025). Ethical and Privacy Concerns in Bioinformatics and Cyber-Physical Systems Integration in Healthcare. IGI Global
  3. Gusti Ahmad Fanshuri Alfarisy, Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Rizal Kusuma Putra, Aninditya Anggari Nuryono (2025). Open Plant Species Recognition using Vision Transformer Network and Top-K Logit Disparity Score. Innovative Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Research
  4. S.M. Nafiz Rayun, Muhammad Abdus Salam, Waziha Islam, Egi Arvian Firmansyah, Kassim Kalinaki (2025). Unraveling the dynamics of mobile wallets in promoting cashless tourism in Bangladesh: implementation of UTAUT2 model. Emerald
  5. Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Wasswa Shafik, Ahmad Fathan Hidayatullah, Kassim Kalinaki, Haji Gul, Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Ali Tufail (2025). Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Critical Review of Integration of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) and Industry 4.0. Elsevier
  6. Alaphat Ummusalaam, Gilbert Gilbrays Ocen, Davis Matovu, Kassim Kalinaki (2025). A Cybercrime Incident Response Management and Recovery Framework for Kampala Metropolitan Area. IEEE Xplore, IST Africa
  7. Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal, Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik (2025). Leveraging Remote Sensing for Agriculture Mapping: Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions. Taylor and Francis
  8. Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Kassim Kalinaki, Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal, Najib Abdulrazak (2025). Advances in Wildfire Spread Detection and Prediction : Techniques, Challenges, and Applications. Taylor and Francis
  9. Madinah Nabukeera, Kassim Kalinaki, Moses Matovu, Muhammad Abdus Salam (2025). Evaluating 4G Network Reach and Fiber Node Proximity Across Uganda’s Sub-Regions. Springer
  10. Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Gusti Ahmad Fanshuri Alfarisy, Jalia Nassanga (2025). NFT Security in Smart Cities: An Exploration of Challenges, Countermeasures, and Emerging Trends. IGI Global
  11. Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal, Kassim Kalinaki, Umar Danjuma Maiwada (2024). Time Series Forecasting Techniques for Climate Trend Prediction. IGI Global
  12. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki, S. Mojtaba Matinkhah (2024). Technical Loopholes and Trends in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication Systems. International Journal of Technology (IJTech)
  13. Kassim Kalinaki, Adam A. Alli, Baguma Asuman, Rufai Yusuf Zakari (2024). Secure federated learning in the Internet of Health Things for improved patient privacy and data security. Elsevier
  14. Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Umar Yahya, Daphne Teck Ching Lai (2024). Federated learning risks and challenges in modern digital healthcare systems. Elsevier
  15. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki (2024). Societal and Ethical Implications of Technology-Enhanced Agriculture and Healthcare: An African Context. IEEE Explore
  16. Musa Chemisto, Kassim Kalinaki, Ivan Tim Oloya, Tar JL Gutu, Percival Egau, Fred Kirya, Darlius Bosco Mwebesa, Rashid Kisitu (2024). ICT for Improved Maternal Healthcare in Uganda: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Explore
  17. Kassim Kalinaki, Cletah Shoko, Mary Immaculate Neh Fru, Arioluwa Aribisala, Mousmi Ajay Chaurasia, Sunni Kanta Prasad Kushwaha (2024). Career Development Activities for African Women, Students, and Young Professionals in Geoscience and Remote Sensing. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
  18. Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Ali Tufail, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong, Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva, Kassim Kalinaki, Abdallah Namoun (2024). ICS Deployment Optimization with Time Delay Reduction and Energy-Efficiency in IWSNs. IEEE
  19. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki, Khairul Eahsun Fahim, Mumin Adam (2024). Safeguarding Data Privacy and Security in Federated Learning Systems. Taylor and Francis
  20. Muhammad Abdus Salam, S. M. Nafiz Rayun, Waziha Islam, Robiul Hasan, Egi Arvian Firmansyah, Kassim Kalinaki (2024). Consumer Engagement: Exploring Deepfake Applications in Consumer Marketing Communication. IGI Global
  21. Kassim Kalinaki (2024). IoT and Blockchain Integration for Enhanced AI-Driven Business Intelligence. IGI Global
  22. Ahmad Fathan Hidayatullah, Kassim Kalinaki, Haji Gul, Rufai Zakari Yusuf, Wasswa Shafik (2024). Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Enhanced Text Analysis in Business Intelligence. IGI Global
  23. Kassim Kalinaki, Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Wasswa Shafik (2024). Emerging trends in cybersecurity applications in healthcare systems. IET
  24. Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Kassim Kalinaki, Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal, Najib Abdulrazak (2024). Federated learning for enhanced cybersecurity in modern digital healthcare systems. IET
  25. Adam A. Alli, Kassim Kalinaki, Mugigayi Fahadi, Lwembawo Ibrahim (2024). Securing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): A Review of Technologies, Strategies, Challenges, and Future Trends. Taylor and Francis
  26. Kassim Kalinaki (2024). Ransomware Threat Mitigation Strategies for Protecting Critical Infrastructure Assets. Taylor and Francis
  27. Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Kassim Kalinaki, Ali Tufail, Abdul Ghani Haji Naim, Madiha Zahir Khan, Sajid Ali (2024). Social Engineering Attacks in Industrial Internet of Things and Smart Industry: Detection and Prevention. Wily
  28. Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Daphne Teck Ching Lai (2024). Forest Canopy Cover Mapping in High-Resolution Multisource Satellite Imagery Using Attention Recurrent Residual U-Net. IEEE Xplore
  29. Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki, Chima Jude Iheaturu (2024). Internet of Forestry Things (IoFT) Technologies and Applications in Forest Management. Taylor and Francis
  30. Kassim Kalinaki, Umar Yahya, Owais Ahmed Malik, Daphne Teck Ching Lai (2024). A Review of Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 5.0 for Smart Decision-Making. IGI Global
  31. Kassim Kalinaki, Musau Abdullatif, Sempala Abdul-Karim Nasser, Ronald Nsubuga, Julius Kugonza (2024). Paving the Path to a Sustainable Digital Future With Green Cloud Computing. IGI Global
  32. Wasswa Shafik, Ahmad Fathan Hidayatullah, Kassim Kalinaki, Muhammad Muzamil Aslam (2024). Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Computer Vision (CV) in Healthcare Systems. Taylor and Francis
  33. Khairul Eahsun Fahim, Kassim Kalinaki, L.C. De Silva, Hayati Yassin (2024). The role of machine learning in improving power distribution systems resilience. Elsevier
  34. Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik, Sarah Namuwaya, Sumaya Namuwaya (2024). Perspectives, Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends of IoT-Based Logistics. IGI Global
  35. Kassim Kalinaki, Silviu Florin Acaru, Julius Kugonza, Ronald Nsubuga (2024). Towards an Intelligent Tomorrow: Machine Learning Enabling Sustainable Development. IGI Global
  36. Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik, Magezi Masha, Adam A. Alli (2024). A Review of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Improved Cloud and IoT Security. IGI Global
  37. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki, Rufai Yusuf Zakari (2024). Blockchain's Motivation for IoT-Enabled Smart City. IGI Global
  38. Mussa Saidi Abubakari, Kassim Kalinaki (2024). Digital Competence in Islamic Education for Lifelong Learning: Preliminary Analysis Using DigComp 2.1 Framework. IGI Global
  39. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki (2024). Impact of 5G Security on Smart Cities' Internet of Things Implementation. IGI Global
  40. Muhammad Muzamil Aslam , Rufai Yusuf Zakari , Ali Tufail , Sajid Ali , Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik (2024). Introduction to industry’s fourth revolution and its impacts on healthcare. De Gruyter
  41. Kassim Kalinaki, Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Hamisi Ramadhan Mubarak, Owais Ahmed Malik, and Musau Abdullatif (2023). Cybersafe Capabilities and Utilities for Smart Cities. Springer
  42. Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Daphne Teck Ching Lai, Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul Wahab (2023). Spatial-temporal mapping of forest vegetation cover changes along highways in Brunei using deep learning techniques and Sentinel-2 images. Elsevier
  43. Kassim Kalinaki, Owais Ahmed Malik, Daphne Teck Ching Lai (2023). FCD-AttResU-Net: An improved forest change detection in Sentinel-2 satellite images using attention residual U-Net. Elsevier
  44. Auf Tumwebaze Alicon, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). Positioning higher education institutions as work-based ICT-integrated learning theatres for employee mid-career development; a strategy for HR capacity building. Emerald
  45. Abdullah Alabdulatif, Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). A Novel Cloud Enabled Access Control Model for Preserving the Security and Privacy of Medical Big Data. MDPI
  46. Kassim Kalinaki, Sumaya Namuwaya, Aminah Mwamini, Sarah Namuwaya (2023). Scaling Up Customer Support Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques. IGI Global
  47. Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik, Tar JL Gutu, Owais Ahmed Malik (2023). Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Smart Farming and Agriculture Practices. IGI Global
  48. Wasswa Shafik, S Mojtaba Matinkhah, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). An Intrusion Anomaly Detection Approach to Mitigate Sensor Attacks on Mechatronics Systems. ICMAME
  49. Kassim Kalinaki, Mugigayi Fahadi, Adam A. Alli, Wasswa Shafik, Magombe Yasin, Nambobi Mutwalibi (2023). Artificial Intelligence of Internet of Medical Things (AIoMT) in Smart Cities: A Review of Cybersecurity for Smart Healthcare. Taylor and Francis
  50. Khairul Eahsun Fahim, Kassim Kalinaki, Wasswa Shafik (2023). Electronic Devices in the Artificial Intelligence of the Internet of Medical Things (AIoMT). Taylor and Francis
  51. Wasswa Shafik, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). Smart City Ecosystem: An Exploration of Requirements, Architecture, Applications, Security, and Emerging Motivations. IGI Global
  52. Musa Chemisto, Tar JL Gutu, Kassim Kalinaki, Darlius Mwebesa Bosco, Percival Egau, Kirya Fred, Ivan Tim Oloya, Kisitu Rashid (2023). Artificial Intelligence for Improved Maternal Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Xplore
  53. Mussa S Abubakari, Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria, Juraidah Musa, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). Validating the Digital Competence (Dig-Comp 2.1) Framework in Higher Education Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis: Non-Western Perspective. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies
  54. Mussa Saidi Abubakari, Gamal Abdul Nasir Zakaria, Juraidah Musa, Kassim Kalinaki (2023). Assessing Digital Competence in Higher Education: A Gender Analysis of DigComp 2.1 Framework in Uganda. SAGA: Journal of Technology and Information Systems
  55. Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Ali Tufail, Zahoor Ahmed, Kassim Kalinaki, Muhammad Nasir, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong (2023). Spectrum Sharing and Consensus Performance of Vehicular Networks based on Deep Multi-User Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Explore
  56. Ahmad Fathan Hidayatullah, Kassim Kalinaki, Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Wasswa Shafik (2023). Fine-Tuning BERT-Based Models for Negative Content Identification on Indonesian Tweets. IEEE Explore
  57. Adam A. Alli, Kalinaki Kassim, Nambobi Mutwalibi, Habiba Hamid, Lwembawo Ibrahim (2021). Secure Fog-Cloud of Things: Architectures, Opportunities and Challenges. Taylor and Francis
  58. Kalinaki Kassim (2019). Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Emerging Possibilities for Quality Education in Uganda. Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal (IUMJ)
  59. Faruque A Haolader, Davut Cicioglu, Kalinaki Kassim (2017). A Model of Technical and Vocational Teacher Education at Bachelor’s Degree Level and its Relevance to the Occupational Tasks of TVET Teachers in the OIC Member States. TVET@ Asia
  60. Faruque A Haolader, Walusimbi Hakim, Kalinaki Kassim, Hamisi Ramadhan Mubarak (2017). A Comparative Study on the Academic Performance of Students in Bachelor’s Degree of Information Technology Having Arts and Science Background in Uganda. World Journal of Educational Research
  • 2021 Universiti Brunei Graduate Scholarship (UGS) to pursue PhD in Computer Science
  • 2020 YOK Schorlarship to pursue PhD in Computer Engineering at Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey. Accepted offer, reported and later quit the program
  • 2014 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Scholarship to pursue Master's degree at Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 2010 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Scholarship to pursue Bachelor's degree at Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Computer and Information Security, Software Engineering, Cryptography and Network Security, Management Information Systems, Fundamentals of Digital Logic, Technical report Writing, Computer Systems Architecture, Operating systems concepts, Human Computer Interaction, Business Process management, Project Planning and Mnagement, ICTs for Organizational Transformation, Computer Care and maintenance, Website development, Internet of Things

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