MOHAMMAD ASHIQUR RAHMAN

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1 1033 NOTTINGHAM DR (APT: A), COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA Phone: (Cell) (Office) LinkedIn: MOHAMMAD ASHIQUR RAHMAN OBJECTIVE To build up career as an academician for promoting science EDUCATION PhD in Computing and Information Systems April, 2015 University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), USA - Enrolled in January 2010 Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering March 2007 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering February 2004 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTERESTS Network and Information Security; Automated Security and Risk Analytics and Security Hardening; Secure Resource Allocation and Optimal Management; Distributed Computing. CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Formal Verification and Synthesis of Security Configurations; Risk Analysis and Security Hardening; Gametheoretic Analysis for Security and Resource Management; Secure and Privacy-Preserved Resource Access/Sharing; Moving Target Strategies for Proactive Defense; Verification and Validation of Security and Operational Constraints in Cyber-Physical Systems (e.g., Smart Power Grids). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters: 1. Ehab Al-Shaer and Mohammad A. Rahman, Attribution, Temptation, and Expectation: A Formal Framework for Defense-by-Deception in Cyber Warfare, Cyber Warfare- Building the Scientific Foundation, Edited by S. Jajodia, P. Shakarian, V.S. Subrahmanian, V. Swarup, and C. Wang, Springer, Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Declarative Logic-Based Approach for Threat Analysis of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Automated Security Management, Edited by E. Al-Shaer, X. Ou, and G. Xie, Springer, Journals: 1. Mohammad A. Rahman, Hossein Manshaei, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Mohamed Shehab. Secure and Private Data Aggregation for Energy Consumption Scheduling in Smart Grids, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), June, Mohammad A. Rahman, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Padmalochan Bera, A Noninvasive Security Threat Analyzer for AMI Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), Vol. 4, No. 1, Mar, Mohammad A. Rahman and M. Mostofa Akbar, A Permission based Multilevel Parallel Solution for Distributed Mutual Exclusion, Journal of Computers (JCP), Academy Publisher, Vol. 7, No. 8, Aug, Mohammad A. Rahman and M. Mostofa Akbar, A Permission Based Hierarchical Algorithm for Mutual Exclusion, Journal of Computers (JCP), Academy Publisher, Vol. 5, No. 12, Dec, PAGE 1 OF 5

2 5. Salahuddin Masum, Mostofa Akbar, Amin Ali and Mohammad A. Rahman, A Consensus-based l- Exclusion Algorithm for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, The Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan, Selected Conference Papers: 1. Bata Tripathy, Padmalochan Bera, Mohammad A. Rahman, 'Analysis of Trust Models in Mobile Ad hoc Networks: A Simulation Based Study, in the 8 th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), January Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, 'Formal Synthesis of Dependable Configurations for Advanced Metering Infrastructures, The IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), November Mohammad A. Rahman, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Rajesh Kavasseri, Impact Analysis of Topology Poisoning Attacks on Economic Operation of the Smart Power Grid, in the 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jul, 2014 (acceptance rate~ 13%). 4. Mohammad A. Rahman, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Rajesh Kavasseri, Security Threat Analytics and Countermeasure Synthesis for Power System State Estimation, the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Jun, 2014 (acceptance rate~ 30%). 5. Mohammad A. Rahman, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Rajesh Kavasseri, A Formal Model for Verifying the Impact of Stealthy Attacks on Optimal Power Flow in Power Grids, in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Apr, 2014 (acceptance rate~ 24%). 6. Mohammad A. Rahman, Ehab Al-Shaer, and M. Ashfaqur Rahman, A Formal Model for Verifying Stealthy Attacks on State Estimation in Power Grids, in the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Oct, 2013 (acceptance rate~ 40%). 7. Mohammad A. Rahman, M. H. Manshaei, and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Game-Theoretic Approach for Deceiving Remote Operating System Fingerprinting, in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Oct, 2013 (acceptance rate~ 28%). 8. Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Formal Framework for Network Security Design Synthesis, in the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jul, 2013 (acceptance rate~ 13%). 9. Mohammad A. Rahman, Q. Duan and Ehab Al-Shaer, Energy Efficient Navigation Management for Hybrid Electric Vehicles on Highways, in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), Apr, 2013 (acceptance rate~ 23%). 10. Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, Metrics for Automated Network Security Design, in the 20th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Short Paper, Feb, Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Formal Approach for Network Security Management Based on Qualitative Risk Analysis, in the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Apr, 2013 (acceptance rate 27%). 12. Mohammad A. Rahman, L. Bai, M. Shehab and Ehab Al-Shaer, Secure Distributed Solution for Optimal Energy Consumption Scheduling in Smart Grid, in the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Jun, 2012 (acceptance rate~ 28%). 13. Mohammad A. Rahman, P. Bera, and Ehab Al-Shaer, SmartAnalyzer: A Noninvasive Security Threat Analyzer for AMI Smart Grid, in the 31 st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Mar, 2012 (acceptance rate~ 18%). 14. Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Declarative Approach for Global Network Security Configuration Verification and Evaluation, in the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), May, 2011 (acceptance rate~ 29%). Selected Workshop Papers: 1. Mohammad A. Rahman, Rakesh Bobba, and Ehab Al-Shaer, Moving Target Defense for Hardening the Security of the Power System State Estimation, in the ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD), Co-located with CCS, Nov, Mohammad A. Rahman, F. Mohsen, and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Formal Model for Sustainable Vehicle-to-Grid Management, in the Smart Energy Grid Security Workshop (SEGS), Co-located with CCS, Nov, PAGE 2 OF 5

3 3. Mohammad A. Rahman and M. Mostofa Akbar, A Quorum Based Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Multi-Level Clustered Network Architecture, in the Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM), Feb, Journals Submitted or in Preparation: 1. Mohammad A. Rahman and Ehab Al-Shaer, Automated Network Security Architecture Design: A Formal Framework, submitted in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 2. Mohammad A. Rahman, Q. Duan, Q. Zhu, and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Formal Approach for Efficient Navigation Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles on Long Trips, submitted in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 3. Mohammad A. Rahman, Rajesh Kavasseri, and Ehab Al-Shaer. Security Design against Stealthy Attacks on Power System State Estimation: A Formal Approach, to be submitted in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. RESEARCH COLLABORATION - Security Analytics for Energy Management System in Smart Power Grids with Rajesh Kavasseri from NDSU and Badrul Chowdhury from UNC Charlotte. - Moving Target Defense against Stealthy Attacks against State Estimation in Smart Power Grids with Rakesh Bobba from UIUC. - Dynamic Countermeasures against Remote OS Fingerprinting with Mohammad Hossein Manshaei from EPFL. - Secure and Private Data Aggregation in Smart Grids with Mohammad Hossein Manshaei from EPFL and Mohamed Shehab from UNC Charlotte. - PHEV Navigation Management with Quanyan Zhu, NYU. HONORS AND AWARDS Academic and Research Grants: 1. NSF SFS: Tennessee Cybercorps: A Hybrid Program in Cybersecurity PI (Principal Investigator): Ambareen Siraj Co-PIs: Mohammad A. Rahman and Doug Talbert Scholarship Amount: approximately 3.9 million Scholarship Period: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) PIs (Principal Investigators): Mohamed Mahmoud and Syed Hasan Senior Personnel: Mohammad A. Rahman et al. Scholarship Amount: approximately 0.4 million Scholarship Period: Travel Grants: 1. CCS (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security) Travel Grant, ICDCS (International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems) Travel Grant, DSN (IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks) Travel Grant, CNS (IEEE Conference on Communication and Network Security) Travel Grant, 2013 Academic Scholarships: 1. GASP (Graduate Assistant Support Plan) Scholar, UNC Charlotte, TCIPG (Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power Grid) Summer School Scholarship, 2013 WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor: August 2015 Department of Computer Science, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA. Courses that I teach: Internet Security, Foundations of Computer Science PAGE 3 OF 5

4 Senior Researcher: June 2015 July 2015 Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Graduate Assistant: January 2010 May 2015 Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. - Research Assistant: I successfully worked in many projects. Among these projects, the following two are worth mentioning, which are under the NSA Science of Security (SoS) Lablet led by NCSU: o Security Metrics-Driven Evaluation, Design, Development, & Deployment o Resilient Architectures - Guest Lecturer: As a teaching assistant, I have conducted a number of classes of the graduate courses, especially Network and Information Security and Information Infrastructure Protection. Assistant Professor (Acting): January 2009 December 2009 Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), Dhaka, Bangladesh. - Courses Taught: Computer Networks and Programming Language II. - I, as the organizing member secretary, played a key role in organizing Inter University Programming Contest held on 24 July Lecturer: January 2006 December 2008 Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh. - Courses Taught: Data Structures, Algorithms, Mathematical Analysis for Computer Science, Compiler, and Computer Graphics. - I participated in different national and international programming contests as a coach of the MIST team. I also actively participated in organizing different cultural, sports, and gaming competitions, with the students. Software Engineer: September 2004 February 2007 Department of Information Technology, Islami Bank Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh. - From March 2005 to February 2007 I worked as a part time employee. - I played the major role, especially as a system analyst, in the development of the Investment Module of banking software named eibs. I also developed the business logic part of the investment module. The product started to be used in the real life banking from PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Panel Member 1. Panel Discussion on Cyber Security in Power Grids, Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), UNC Charlotte Organizing/Program Co-Chair 1. LACI 2016: IEEE International Workshop on Log Analytics for Cyber Intelligence, Collocated with IEEE COMPSAC 2016 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Date: To be held on June 10, SafeConfig 2015: Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber Defense, Collocated with ACM CCS 2015 Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Date: October 12, 2015 Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member 1. IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC), Workshop on Network Security Analytics and Automation (Collocated with ICCCN), The Fifteenth International Conference on Networks (ICN), IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies (DISSECT), IEEE International Workshop on Log Analytics For Cyber Intelligence (Collocated with COMPSAC), 2016 PAGE 4 OF 5

5 Selected Journal Referee 1. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 3. Journal of the Network and Systems Management 4. IEEE Communications Magazine 5. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine Selected Conference Referee (External) 1. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) ( , 2016) 2. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2010, 2012) 3. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2013) 4. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (2013, 2015) 5. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2014) 6. IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM) (2011, 2013) 7. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) (2012) 8. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (2011) 9. International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) (2011, 2012) 10. IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2011 EXTERNAL TALK - "Automated Formal Analytics for Smart Grid Security", Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, May "Formal Security Analytics for Cyber and Cyber-Physical Systems", University of New Orleans, Louisiana, October "Formal Security Analytics for Cyber and Cyber-Physical Systems", Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville Tennessee, November "Formal Analytics of Security and Resiliency for Smart Grids", Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville Tennessee, November PAGE 5 OF 5