Dr. Muhammad Khurram Khan from Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA) at KSU has been awarded the ‘King Saud University’s Award for Scientific Excellence 2015’. Dr. Khan has been regarded as one of the best academicians and researchers and got 'Research Productivity Prize in Science &

King Saud University scientists, Dr. Muhammad Khurram Khan and Dr. Mohamed Eldefrawy, got a USA patent on their new invention for the banknote/currency-note authentication system using smartphone, under patent number 8,931,688. The title of the patent is " System and Method for Currency Validation"