• BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2009
• MS, Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 2013
• Ph D, Computer Science, Purdue University, 2018

Books

Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2020, A Systematic Framework For Analyzing the Security and Privacy of Cellular Networks, Purdue University Graduate School

Journal Articles

Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Dongyoon Lee, David Liu, Zhenhua Liu, Patrick McDaniel, Shuai Mu and Erez Zadok, 2023, "Metrics for Sustainability in Data Centers", 3, (3)

Elisa Bertino, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Omar Chowdhury, 2020, "5G Security and Privacy: A Research Roadmap", Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 2020

Imtiaz Karim, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury and Elisa Bertino, 2020, "ATFuzzer: Dynamic Analysis Framework of AT Interface for Android Smartphones", Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 1, (4), pp. 1--29

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Shahriar Nirjon and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "Secure Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration For Unmodified IoT Devices", IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC)

Lorenzo Bossi, Elisa Bertino and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2016, "A System for Profiling and Monitoring Database Access Patterns by Application Programs for Anomaly Detection", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

Asmaa Sallam, Elisa Bertino, Syed Rafiul Hussain, David Landers, R. Michael Lefler and Donald Steiner, 2015, "DBSAFE -- An Anomaly Detection System to Protect Databases from Exfiltration Attempts", IEEE Systems Journal

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Changda Changda and Elisa Bertino, 2015, "Dictionary Based Secure Provenance Compression for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (TPDS), 26

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha and Ashikur Rahman, 2011, "SAAMAN: scalable address autoconfiguration in mobile ad hoc networks", 19, (3), pp. 394--426

Conference Proceedings

Rabiah Alnashwan, Yang Yang, Yilu Dong, Prosanta Gope, Behzad Abdolmaleki and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2024, "Strong Privacy-Preserving Universally Composable AKA Protocol with Seamless Handover Support for Mobile Virtual Network Operator", ACM

Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Tianwei Wu, Kai Tu, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir, Yilu Dong, Omar Chowdhury and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2024, "State Machine Mutation-based Testing Framework for Wireless Communication Protocols", ACM

Tianchang Yang, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Gang Tan and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2024, "ORANalyst: Systematic Testing Framework for Open RAN Implementations", USENIX

Kai Tu, Abdullah Ishtiaq, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Weixuan Wang, Yilu Dong, Tianwei Wu and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2024, "Logic Gone Astray: A Security Analysis Framework for the Control Plane Protocols of 5G Basebands", USENIX

Abdullah Ishtiaq, Sarkar Das, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar, Kai Tu, Tianwei Wu, Zhezheng Song, Weixuan Wang, Mujtahid Akon, Rui Zhang and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2024, "HERMES: Unlocking Security Analysis of Cellular Network Protocols by Synthesizing Finite State Machines from Natural Language Specifications", USENIX

Raja Hasnain Anwar, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Muhammad Taqi Raza, 2024, "In Wallet We Trust: Bypassing the Digital Wallets Payment Security for Free Shopping", USENIX

Feiyang Yu, Quan Zhou, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Danfeng Zhang, 2024, "Athena: Analyzing and Quantifying Side Channels of Transport Layer Protocols", USENIX

Imtiaz Karim, Abdullah Ishtiaq, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Elisa Bertino, 2023, "BLEDiff: Scalable and Property-Agnostic Noncompliance Checking for BLE Implementations", IEEE

Mujtahid Akon, Tianchang Yang, Yilu Dong and Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2023, "Security Analysis of Access Control Mechanism of 5G Networks", ACM

Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2022, "Side Channel Attacks in 4G and 5G Cellular Networks"

Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Dongyoon Lee, David Liu, Zhenhua Liu, Patrick McDaniel, Shuai Mu and Erez Zadok, 2022, "Metrics for Sustainability in Data Centers", USENIX

Syed Rafiul Hussain, 2022, "BaseDiff: Differential Security Analysis of Cellular Basebands"

Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Patrick McDaniel, 2022, "Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System", Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS)

Ankush Singla, Rouzbeh Behnia, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Atilla Yavuz and Elisa Bertino, 2021, "Look Before You Leap: Secure Connection Bootstrapping for 5G Networks to Defend Against Fake Base-Stations", 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2021., pp. 15

Mitziu Echeverria, Zeeshan Ahmed, Bincheng Wang, Fareed Arif, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Omar Chowdhury, 2021, "PHOENIX: Device-Centric Cellular Network Protocol Monitoring using Runtime Verification", The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021., pp. 18

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Imtiaz Karim, Abdullah Ishtiaq, Omar Chowdhury and Elisa Bertino, 2021, "Noncompliance as Deviant Behavior: An Automated Black-box Noncompliance Checker for 4G LTE Cellular Devices,", The 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

Imtiaz Karim, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Elisa Bertino, 2021, "ProChecker: An Automated Security and Privacy Analysis Framework for 4G LTE Protocol Implementations", 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

Weicheng Wang, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Bertino Bertino and Ninghui Li, 2020, "Analyzing the Attack Landscape of Zigbee-enabled IoT Systems and Reinstating Users’ Privacy", The 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)

Moosa Yahyazadeh, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Endadul Hoque and Omar Chowdhury, 2020, "PatrIoT: Policy Assisted Resilient Programmable IoT System", International Conference on Runtime Verification, pp. 151--171

Ankush Singla, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, Elisa Bertino and Ninghui Li, 2020, "Protecting the 4G and 5G cellular paging protocols against security and privacy attacks", Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), Sciendo, 2020, (1), pp. 126--142

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Imtiaz Karim, Omar Chowdhury and Elisa Bertino, 2019, "5GReasoner: A property-directed security and privacy analysis framework for 5G cellular network protocol", Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 669--684

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Ankush Singla, Omar Chowdhury and Elisa Bertino, 2019, "Insecure connection bootstrapping in cellular networks: the root of all evil", Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), pp. 1--11

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury and Elisa Bertino, 2019, "Opening Pandora's box through ATFuzzer: dynamic analysis of AT interface for Android smartphones", Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 529--543

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Omar Chowdhury, Ninghui Li and Elisa Bertino, 2019, "Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information"

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Elisa Bertino and Shahriar Nirjon, 2019, "Securing the Insecure Link of Internet-of-Things Using Next-Generation Smart Gateways", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2018, "LTEInspector: A Systematic Approach for Adversarial Testing of 4G LTE", Network and Distributed System Symposium (NDSS)

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Shahriar Nirjon and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "SeamBlue: Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration for Unmodified IoT Devices", ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Shahriar Nirjon and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "Seamless and secure bluetooth LE connection migration"

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Asmaa Sallam and Elisa Bertino, 2015, "DetAnom: Detecting Anomalous Database Transaction by Insiders", Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, SIGSAC ACM CODASPY

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Lorenzo Bossi, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Asmaa Sallam, 2015, "Monitoring DBMS activity for detecting data exfiltration by insiders", Proceedings of the 16th Annual Information Security Symposium, pp. 1--1

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Changda Wang, Salmin Sultana and Elisa Bertino, 2014, "Secure Data Provenance Compression Using Arithmetic Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks"

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Ala Odeh, Amrut Shivakumar, Shalini Chauhan and Khaled Harfoush, 2013, "Real-time Traffic Congestion Management and Deadlock Avoidance for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", pp. 223--227

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Syed Rafiul Hussain and AKM Ashikur Rahman, 2010, "RBP: Reliable Broadcasting Protocol in Large Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, pp. 526--532

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha and Ashikur Rahman, 2009, "An efficient and scalable address autoconfiguration in mobile ad hoc networks", International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, pp. 152--165

Magazines/Trade Publications

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Patrick McDaniel, Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Dongyoon Lee, Yu David Liu, Zhenhua Liu, Shuai Mu and Erez Zadok, 2024, "Verifiable Sustainability in Data Centers"

• October 2022 - September 2027, "CAREER: Principled Approaches to Securing Next-Generation Cellular Networks," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• January 2024 - January 2027, "A holistic cybersecurity testing framework for 5G radio access networks," (Sponsor: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).

• October 2022 - September 2026, "Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Large: Systems and Verifiable Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• July 2022 - June 2024, "NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security: Signaling and Full-Stack Approach," (Sponsor: Kansas, University of).

• September 2023 - August 2024, "NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security," (Sponsor: University of Kansas Center For Research, Inc.).

• August 2022 - August 2024, "Automated Reasoning and Repairing Framework for Systematic Assurance of 5G RAN Systems-FY2022 DARPA YFA," (Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

• January 2022 - December 2022, "Adoption of ``Smart'' Agricultural Irrigation Systems: Assessing and Mitigating Cybersecurity Threats to U.S. Food, Water, And Energy Reserve," (Sponsor: Center for Security Research and Education Fall (CSRE), Penn State).

• November 2020 - October 2021, "Principled Security Analysis of Intel's Bluetooth implementation through enhanced Symbolic Execution," (Sponsor: Intel Corp. [MP]).

• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2022 - 2028

• Charles F. Etner Early Career Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, July 2023 - June 2026

• DARPA Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2022 - 2025

• Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security Symposium 2024, 2024 - 2024

• Distinguished Member of INFOCOM 2024 TPC, IEEE INFOCOM, 2023

• DARPA Riser, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2022

• Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame, Global System for Mobile Association (GSMA), 2019 - 2021

• Distinguished Paper Award, The 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019., 2019

• Distinguished Paper Award Honorable Mention, The 26th Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS), 2019., 2019

• Nominated for the best paper award, Tehe 14th ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2017, 2017

• Intel Security Research Assistantship, Intel/CERIAS, 2017

Service to Penn State:

• Committee Work, Committee Member, IT Committee, August 2024

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ABET/Assessment Committee, August 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Faculty hiring committee member for research assistant professor position in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering department., Faculty Hiring Committee, August 2022 - 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, August 2022

• Committee Work, Committee Member, CSE Faculty Hiring Committee, August 2021 - 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Education/New Programs Committee, August 2021 - 2022

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Committee, August 2020

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Program Committee Chair, Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), co-located with NDSS, 2024 - 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Publication Chair, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2024 - 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Breakout session titled "Network and NextG Security" at NSF SaTC PI Meeting , 2024, NSF SaTC, 2024 - 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Breakout session titled "Security Collaboration: Current Progress and Next Steps" at International Open RAN Symposium , 2024, NSF SaTC, 2024 - 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, Peer Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2022 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Breakout session titled "NextG and Wireless Security" at NSF SaTC PI Meeting , 2022, NSF SaTC, 2022 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, USENIX Security Symposium, 2022 - 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2022 - 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM, 2022 - 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Publication Chair, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022 - 2023

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, Peer Reviewer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2022 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, Peer Reviewer, Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), 2022 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Panelist, Security Challenges in 5G Wireless and Beyond, CSAW, New York University, Security Challenges in 5G Wireless and Beyond, CSAW, New York University, 2021 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), 2021 - 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, External Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), 2021 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Organizer of a special session and panel, Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS) 2021, 2021 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, The ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2021 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, The 29th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2021 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, The WebConf, 2020 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020 - 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2020 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2020 - 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Building cellular network’s security from the ground up for connected vehicles and IoT Talks devices, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2020 - 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT), 2019 - 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Technical Program Committee Member, Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), 2019 - 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), 2018 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2018 - 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, Sensors, 2016 - 2016

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer, IEEE Systems, 2016 - 2016