Mr Paul Tarwireyi

# A Node For African Thought

Research and Innovation

To achieve and maintain the University’s vision and mission, the research and innovation division contributes mainly by promoting the research related goal of the institution which is: to drive growth in UNIZULU research and Innovation

Faculty: Science, Agriculture and Engineering

Department: Computer Science

Discipline: Computer Science

Contact details

Email: TarwireyiP@unizulu.ac.za

Campus: KwaDlangezwa

Research Interest Areas

Computer Security,
cloud computing,
IoT and machine learning

Active Research Projects

Investigating Android Malware Detection using fusion of Audio-based Features

M/D Supervision completed (3 or 4 projects)

Magubane (2023), MSc, A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED FIRMWARE UPDATE ARCHITECTURE FOR LONG-RANGE WIDE AREA NETWORK (LORAWAN)

Mtetwa (2023), Msc, Evaluating Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL)-Based Load Balancing Routing Algorithms in the Internet of Things (IoT) Network

Impactful Research Publications

(Author(s); Year; Title; journal / publisher)

Tarwireyi, P., Terzoli, A., & Adigun, M. O. (2023). Using multi-audio feature fusion for android malware detection. Computers & Security, 131, 103282.

Mtetwa, N. S., Tarwireyi, P., Sibeko, C. N., Abu-Mahfouz, A., & Adigun, M. (2022). Blockchain-based security model for LoRaWAN firmware updates. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 11(1), 5.

Zwane, S., Tarwireyi, P., & Adigun, M. (2018, December). Performance analysis of machine learning classifiers for intrusion detection. In 2018 International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications (ICONIC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE

Nkosi, L., Tarwireyi, P., & Adigun, M. O. (2013, August). Insider threat detection model for the cloud. In 2013 information security for South Africa (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Tarwireyi, P., Flowerday, S., & Bayaga, A. (2011, August). Information security competence test with regards to password management. In 2011 Information Security for South Africa (pp. 1-7). IEEE.