M. Hammad Mazhar

Assisant Professor of Computer Science, The University of Northern Colorado 2240B Ross Hall Greeley, Colorado, USA E-mail: hammad.mazhar@unco.edu Twitter: @HmdMazhar

About me

I received my PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa under the supervision of Dr. Omar Chowdhury. I received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan in 2016.

Research

My current research focuses on resolving security and privacy issues in programmable IoT systems such as smart homes. My thesis proposed the safety problem in programmable IoT systems with a formal definition and proposes a tractable solution using a platform-agnostic policy-enforcement system WiSec 2023. My prior research encompasses a wide range of work such as studying insecure Wi-Fi configurations (CCS 2021) a study on smart home IoT traffic in the wild (IoTDI 2020), video QoE monitoring for encrypted video streaming (INFOCOM 2018).

Teaching

I have taught/am teaching the following courses:
Spring 2024

• CS 120: Introduction to Programming

• CS 301: Algorithms and Data Structures

Collaborators

My industrial collaborators include:

• Minim

• AT&T

• Nokia

• Futurewei
  

Recent News

• I have joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Spring 2024.

• I have passed my PhD. defense in November 2023 and will be graduating in December!

• Our work titled MAVERICK: An App-Independent and Platform Agnostic Approach to Enforce Policies in IoT Systems at Runtime has been accepted for publication at ACM WiSec 2023!

• I passed my PhD. thesis proposal on Nov 18th! I am now ABD and on the job market!

• Our work titled All your credentials are belong to us: On Insecure WPA2-Enterprise Configurations has been accepted for publication at ACM CCS 2021. Congratulations to all collaborators!

• I have passed the PhD. Comprehensive exam at UIowa in Fall 2020. I am now a PhD. candidate.

• Since Zubair Shafiq has moved to UC Davis, I have changed advisors. My new advisor is Omar Chowdhury.

• My work titled Characterizing Smart Home IoT Traffic in the Wild has been accepted for publication at ACM/IEEE Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2020.

• I recently completed a summer internship in Summer 2019 with Minim, developing prototypes for detecting anomalous network traffic behavior in Smart Home IoT devices.
  

Recent Publications

• M. Hammad Mazhar, Li Li, Endadul Hoque, Omar Chowdhury "MAVERICK: An App-Independent and Platform Agnostic Approach to Enforce Policies in IoT Systems at Runtime"
  In ACM WiSec 2023: ACM Conference on Security and Privacy of Wireless Networks (WiSec) 2023.

• Man Hong Hue, Joyantha Debnath, Kin Man Leung, Li Li, Mohsen Minaei, M. Hammad Mazhar, Kailiang Xian, Endadul Hoque, Omar Chowdhury, Sze Yiu Chau, "All your credentials are belong to us: On Insecure WPA2-Enterprise Configurations".
  In ACM CCS 2021: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021.

• M. Hammad Mazhar, Z. Shafiq , "Characterizing Smart Home IoT Traffic in the Wild".
  In ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2020: ACM/IEEE Internet of Things Design and Implementation, 2020.

• M. Hammad Mazhar, Z. Shafiq , "Real-time Video Quality of Experience Monitoring for HTTPS and QUIC".
  In IEEE INFOCOM 2018: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2018.

Full list of publications.
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