Paul Marcel Shepherd (4C1E-2003-1278)

Curriculum Vitae

Paul Marcel Shepherd

Identification

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Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications
Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Languages Studies
Social Sciences - Sociology

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Swedish	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025/04/01 - 2029/03/31 Ongoing	London South Bank University - LSBU (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Electronic and Electrical Engineering - PhD London South Bank University Department of Computer Science and Informatics, United Kingdom
2022/09/05 - 2025/02/24 Concluded	London South Bank University (Master Universitario) Major in MRes General Engineering London South Bank University, United Kingdom "Integrating a Zero-Trust Adaptive Security Framework in Edge based Federated Learning." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Pass
1983/09/05 - 1987/06/03 Concluded	Middlesex University, London. (Bachelor) Major in Sociology & Science Technology Middlesex University, London., United Kingdom	BSc (Hons) 2.2

Affiliation

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/02/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2025/04/15 - 2025/10/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
	University of Bradford University International Study Centre, United Kingdom

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/09/09 - 2019/06/14	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Línguas Literaturas e Culturas, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2016/04/28	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade de Aveiro Associação para a Formação Profissional e Investigação, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Associação para a Formação Profissional e Investigação, Portugal

	Category Host institution	Employer
2003/01/01 - 2021/12/31	Software Application Developer	Netonda, Sweden

2009/01/01 - 2018/12/31	Intensive language courses - training in presentation skills	Netonda, Sweden

1999/04/17 - 2003/01/04	Software Application Developer	Netonda, Argentina

1998/09/04 - 2002/10/02	English Language Instructor	Corporate English, Argentina

1995/02/02 - 1998/06/15	English Teacher	Cultura Inglesa, Brazil

1991/09/25 - 1995/07/07	English Instructor	Folkuniversitetet i Göteborg, Sweden

Projects

	Designation	Funders
2025/04/15 - 2025/07/15	ROBUST 101086492 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2022/10/01 - 2024/10/31	Distributed Artificial Intelligent Systems (Dais) 101007273 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	European Union Concluded
2019/02/01 - 2021/11/30	AFarCloud \| Aggregate Farming in the Cloud AFarCloud Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	European Union Concluded
2018/02/01 - 2018/11/30	Wearable e-health optical fibre monitoring system WeHope Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Instituto de Telecomunicações Concluded

Outputs

Conference paper

Shepherd, Paul, Marcel; Dagiuklas, Tasos; Dr Bugra Alkan; Professor Jonathan Rodriguez. Corresponding author: Shepherd, Paul, Marcel. "Dynamic Trust Management for Secure Federated Learning in Critical Industrial and IoT Networks". Paper presented in WS26 IEEE ICC 2025 4th Workshop on Sustainable and Resilient Industrial Networks, Montreal, 2025.
Accepted
Shepherd, Paul; Dagiuklas, Tasos; Alkan, Bugra; Rodriguez, Jonathan. "Integrating a Zero-Trust Adaptive Security Framework in Edge Based Federated Learning". Paper presented in 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Athens, 2024.
Published • 10.1109/camad62243.2024.10942760
Bastos, Joaquim; Shepherd, Paul Marcel; Castillejo, Pedro; Emeterio, Mario San; Diaz, Vicente Hernandez; Rodriguez, Jonathan. "Location-Based Data Auditing for Precision Farming IoT Networks". Porto, 2021.
Published • 10.1109/camad52502.2021.9617765

Journal article

Hathout, Basma*; Shepherd, Paul*; Dagiuklas, Tasos; Nagaty, Khaled; Hamdy, Abeer; Rodriguez, Jonathan. "Adaptive Trust Management for Data Poisoning Attacks in MEC-based FL Infrastructures". IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2024): 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3523368.
Open access • Published • 10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3523368

Activities

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/10/12 - 2023/10/17	During my time as a volunteer for an IEEE event organized by my university department, I played an active role in facilitating workshop sessions and served as a stand-in chair for the conference. My responsibilities included coordinating discussions, assisting speakers, and ensuring the smooth execution of the event. This experience allowed me to strengthen my leadership, teamwork, and event management skills while collaborating with professionals and peers. It was a rewarding opportunity to contribute to a high-impact academic conference and engage (2023/10/09 - 2023/10/17) Conference (Other)	IEEE, United States Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/03/26 - 2025/03/27	Flower AI summit 2025 - London Presented my MSc thesis results published in the paper "Integrating a Zero-Trust Adaptive Security Framework in Edge Based Federated Learning" Conference	Flower Framework - University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2022/11/18 - 2022/11/23	AfarCLoud Holistic demonstrator. Our deliverable was showed cased at the holistic demonstration as a proof-of-concept Meeting	AfarCloud Holistic demonstrator
2020/04/03 - 2020/04/06	AfarCloud General Annual Meeting - Gothenburg Webmeeting due to COVID Meeting	AfarCloud General Annual Meeting - Gothenburg
2019/11/05 - 2019/11/08	AfarCLoud Annual General Meeting - Lisbon Meeting	AfarCLoud Annual General Meeting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/06/26 - 2024/06/29	Reviewer - 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) (1 review)
2023/12/04 - 2023/12/08	Reviewer - 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps): Workshop on Physical-Layer Schemes for Security and Privacy in Beyond 5G / 6G and Internet of Things Networks (1 review)	IEEE, United States
2022/02/03 - 2022/02/04	Reviewer - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling (3 reviews)	IEEE, United States

Distinctions

2024	The IEEE CSIM Technical Committee 6G Industrial Dissemination Day (CFP), First Prize Awarded IEEE Communications Society, United States