Hi, I am M. Hammad Mazhar, currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Northern Colorado. I received my PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa in 2023 under supervision of Dr. Omar Chowdhury (currently at Stony Brook University). I received my BSc. in Computer Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences LUMS, Pakistan in 2016.

Research Interests

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).