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Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman

Associate Professor

marahman@fiu.edu
(305) 348-3724
https://rahman.eng.fiu.edu/
EC 3955
TH 3:00pm - 5:00pm
ORCID: 0000-0003-4666-6943

Biography

Dr. Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). He also has a secondary appointment in the FIU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Dr. Rahman joined FIU as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2019. Before joining FIU, he was with the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University. He obtained a Ph.D. in computing and information systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2015. Previously, He received BS and MS degrees in computer science and engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rahman lead the Analytics of Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab at FIU. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Honors and Awards

NSF CRII Award (2017)

Research and Educational Interests

Dr. Rahman's primary research interest covers a wide area of security and dependability problems in cyber and cyber-physical systems (CPSs). His research focus primarily includes computer and information security analysis, risk assessment and security design, resiliency analysis and hardening, and secure and dependable resource allocation. Dr. Rahman primarily applies formal methods, machine learning, and game theory in my research.

Background Education

2015 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Professional Activities

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Miami, FL, May 2023.
  • Local Chair of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Miami, FL, May 2019.
  • Workshop Program Committee Co-Chair
    • a. IEEE STPSA 2017 - 2023: IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications, collocated with IEEE COMPSAC.
    • b. CPS-Sec 2019 - 2023: IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security, collocated with IEEE CNS 2019 – 2020, 2022, 2023, and IEEE ICNP 2021.

Professional Experience

  • Florida International University, Miami, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2023 – Present
  • Florida International University, Miami, Associate Professor [Secondary Appointment], School of Computing and Information Sciences, August 2023 – Present
  • Florida International University, Miami, Assistant Professor [Secondary Appointment], School of Computing and Information Sciences, February 2023 – July 2023
  • Florida International University, Miami, Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering January 2019 – July 2023
  • Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, August 2015 – December 2018
  • Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Dhaka, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, January 2009 – December 2009
  • Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, January 2006 – January 2009

Selected Publications

1. Alvi Ataur Khalil, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, and Hisham Kholidy, “FAKey: Fake Hashed Key Attack on Payment Channel Networks,” Annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2023. [Accepted] 2. Mohamadsaleh Jafari, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, and Sumit Paudyal “Optimal False Data Injection Attack Against Load-Frequency Control in Power Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TFIS), August 2023. [Accepted] 3. Nur Imtiazul Haque, Maurice Ngouen, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Selcuk Uluagac, and Laurent Njilla, “SHATTER: Control and Defense-Aware Attack Analytics for Activity-Driven Smart Home Systems,” in the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network (DSN), June 2023. [Best Paper Award] 4. Mohamadsaleh Jafari, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, and Sumit Paudyal “Optimal False Data Injection Attacks Against Power System Frequency Stability,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2023. 5. Madhukrishna Priyadarsini, Padmalochan Bera, Sajal Das, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, “A Security Enforcement Framework for SDN Controller using Game Theoretic Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol. 20, No. 2, March-April 2023. 6. Nur Imtiazul Haque, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Dong Chen, and Hisham Kholidy, “BIoTA: Control-Aware Attack Analytics for Building Internet of Things,” in the 18th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), July 2021.