Professor Dr. Khalid Hussain is working as Professor Cyber Security in Superior University Lahore and Campus Director in National Superior Institute of Science and Technology (NSIST) Islamabad, previously he had served as Dean Faculty of Computer Science and also Campus Director in Barani Institute of Sciences ARID Agriculture University, for the last one and half years. He also served in The University of Lahore as Dean Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology for a period of three years. Dr. Khalid has vast university / industry experience. During his tenure in the industry, he served in the defense related projects and in recognition of his services, he has been awarded commendation certificates by multiple government agencies.

He joined academia in 2008 as full time faculty member. In addition to his teaching role, he has been involved in numerous research projects, ICT trainings, seminars and workshops especially in the domain of Cyber Security. He help setup a pioneer setup for information/ network security certification in Pakistan. He also introduced EC Council certification under the first academia industry partnership. That project started from a one room office and has grown into a fully functional campus of RIPHAH University.

He did his PhD from Malaysia, under a fully funded UTM / HEC scholarship. Up till now he published 64 papers. In which 28 are ISI Indexed Impact Factor, 13 are in HEC approved journal and 23 are in IEEE and ACM conferences. Except this he also has seven book chapter and three books in his credit. His Cumulative Impact Factor is 83.032. He has successfully completed six applied research project in the domain of Information Security funded by NESCOM and other funding agencies. Up till now 21 MS and 03 PhD students completed their research thesis under his supervision. Currently he is supervising 13 MS and five PhD student.

In reward of his contribution towards Information Security SATHA awarded him Gold Medal in 2015.