I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Prof. Marianne Winslett. I am also co-advised by Prof. Radu Sion of SUNY-StonyBrook. Other members of my thesis committee are Prof. Carl Gunter, Prof. Nikita Borisov, and Himanshu Khurana of UIUC.
I am primarily interested in Computer Security Trust Management, and Storage Systems research. My PhD dissertation topic is related to protecting the past (secure provenance,) and present (term-immutability) of data.
My resume can be found here: [html], [pdf]
What's New!!
- December 5, 2008: I have received the CIDR Graduate Student Scholarship for attending CIDR 2009.
- November 21, 2008: I have successfully passed the preliminary examination, and am now an ABD. One step closer ...
- November 10, 2008: My paper on Remembrance got accepted at the 4th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2009).
- November 4 , 2008 : My paper on Secure Provenance got accepted at USENIX FAST 2009!!! (23/102 = 22.5%)
- October 27, 2008 : Analyzing NASPINet Dataflows, based on my summer 2008 work at NCSA, is to be published at IEEE PSCE 2009.
- October 4, 2008 : I presented our poster at the 2008 Midwest Database Workshop and Research Symposium in University of Illinois at Chicago.
- October 2008 : The NASPINet paper will be presented in North American SynchroPhasor Initiative Working Group Meeting. This is based on the research I did in Summer 2008 at NCSA.
- September 2008: I am serving in the Program Commitee of IEEE IDCS 2008.
- August 2008 : My ACSAC 2008 paper on Mashups has been accepted. This work was done at Google last summer.
- August 2008 : I finished my summer project at NCSA/ITI, where I developed a NS-2 based simulator for NASPINet.
- May 2008 : I am acting as the Web and Proceedings chair for ACM WPES 2008.
Research Interest
My research interests are in the field of security of computing systems. More specifically, I am interested in securing Storage Provenance information which can be used to infer the trustworthiness of digital objects.
My current projects include
- Secure Provenance: Providing confidentiality, integrity, and privacy gurantees for storage provenance.
- Security Breach Analysis: An analysis of storage security breaches
- Threat modeling : A threat model for storage system security
- FlexPolicies: An attempt to make security policies more flexible, and usable
Some of my previous projects include :
- Synergy: A Trust-aware, Policy-driven Information Dissemination Framework
- VisiResCUE: A Trust-enabled Disaster Management System
Research Group
I have started working towards my PhD in Fall 2003. I am currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Prof. Marianne Winslett of the Computer Science Department. I'm a member of the Trust Management and Compliance Storage Group. In the past, I have worked at the Radio Astronomy Imaging Group at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) with Dr. Athol Kemball. Before that, I have worked at the PABLO research group with Professor Daniel Reed, who is currently a Professor at the University of North Carolina and the founding director of Renaissance Computing Institute.
I was also a member of NCSA Storage Security and Survivability Group (StorageSS) where I worked with Bill Yurcik. I did a summer Research Assistantship with this group in Summer 2005 and developed a Threat model for storage Systems. In Summer 2006, we analyzed storage security breach statistics, and created a publicly-accessible database for breach incidents.
Background
I got a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2003. I graduated Summa-Cum-Laude in my class and received the Chancellor Award, given by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, for securing the highest CGPA in my year. I am an active wikipedia editor and an administrator there since August 2005. I also write technical articles, one of which, on the History of Linux, has been translated to 8 languages and published in mainstream magazines.