Dr. Anwar has experience and interest in designing usable secure, privacy-preserving, and trusted infrastructures, systems, and applications in different online contexts, specifically in Online Social Networks (OSN), e-Learning, and e-Health domains. His recent publication includes topology-based access control model for social network systems, trust-based approach to mitigate attacks on IP networks, access control policy models, visualization of access control policies for end-users in social network systems, and a privacy-enhancing identity management models for e-Learning.