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. I am primarily interested in Computer Security Trust Management, and Storage Systems research. My PhD dissertation topic is secure provenance, a problem that we defined and are attempting to solve.
My resume can be found here: [html], [pdf]
What's New!!
- May 2008 : I am acting as the Web and Proceedings chair for ACM WPES 2008, and SSDBM 2009.
- July 27, 2007: Our paper on Multi-Tier Security Architecture, a description of our Building Automation Project (BAM) got accepted for the Computer Security Architecture Workship, part of ACM CCS 2007.
- July 19, 2007: Our paper on Secure Provenance got accepted for StorageSS 2007, an ACM CCS workshop.
- June 22, 2007: Our paper on Regulatory Compliance Storage in Health Sector got accepted for SDM 2007, a VLDB workshop.
- May - August 2007: I am working in Google as a Summer Intern. Googleplex is an awesome place to do research and have fun.
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.