Salman Ahmed
Ph.D. Student in CS@VT
Yao Group, Human-centric Security Research Lab
Email: ahmedms at vt.edu

I am a third-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech advised by Dr. Daphne Yao and a member of Yao Group. As a member of Yao Group, I am focused on developing deployable tools with concrete methodologies and metrics to quantify and measure security assurance. Prior to starting my Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, I worked for the automation and security of connected vehicle technology and development of platform tools for embedded (e.g., smartwatches) and mobile devices.

Before joining graduate school, I obtained my bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2013). I also worked as both Software and Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R&D.

Recent News

  • [May 18, 2020] Our ASLR measurement work has been accepted in ACM CCS 2020.
  • [Mar 11, 2020] Got an offer from IBM Research as a Research intern for the upcoming summer.
  • [Feb 07, 2020] Our poster on fine-grained code randomization evaluation accepted by NDSS'20.
  • [Oct 23, 2019] Nominated for the IBM PhD Fellowship Award.
  • [Oct 08, 2019] Our ASLR manuscript is released on arxiv.
  • [Jun 10, 2019] Our SoK paper on Data-Oriented Attacks is accepted by SecDev.
  • [Feb 16, 2019] My Plan of Study (PoS) is approved.
  • [Feb 15, 2019] Passed Ph.D. Qualifier Exam.
  • [Feb 28, 2018] My MS thesis is selected as the outstanding MS thesis by TCGS [News].

Publications

Methodologies for Quantifying (Re-)randomization Security and Timing under JIT-ROP
Salman Ahmed, Ya Xiao, Gang Tan, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose, and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'20). November 9-13, 2020, Orlando, USA (To appear).
Poster: Methodologies for Quantifying (Re-) Randomization Security and Timing under JIT-ROP.
Salman Ahmed, Ya Xiao, Gang Tan, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose, and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
In Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2020, San Diego, CA, USA.
Exploitation Techniques and Defenses for Data-Oriented Attacks
Long Cheng, Hans Liljestrand, Salman Ahmed, Thomas Nyman, Trent Jaeger, N. Asokan, and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
In IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2019, McLean, VA, USA.
POSTER: Extracting Anti-specifications from Vulnerabilities for Program Hardening
Salman Ahmed, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, and Haipeng Cai
In IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2018, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Freeway merge assistance system using DSRC
Salman Ahmed, Mohammad A. Hoque, Jackeline Rios-Torres, and Asad Khattak.
2nd ACM International Workshop on Smart, Autonomous, and Connected Vehicular Systems and Services, 2017
An Investigation into the Performance Evaluation of Connected Vehicle Applications: From Real..
Salman Ahmed
Dissertation, East Tennessee State University, 2017.
Reducing Inter-Process Communication Overhead in Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication
Salman Ahmed, Jennifer Houser, Mohammad A. Hoque, Rezaul Raju, and Phil Pfeiffer
In International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) 2017
Partitioning of urban transportation networks utilizing real-world traffic parameters for distributed...
Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A Hoque
In IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2016, Columbus, OH, USA.
Demo: Real-time vehicle movement tracking on Android devices through Bluetooth communication...
Salman Ahmed, and Mohammad A Hoque
In IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2016, Columbus, OH, USA.
Comparative study of connected vehicle simulators
Salman Ahmed, Mohammad A Hoque, and Phil Pfeiffer
In IEEE Southeas Conference 2016, Norfolk, VA, USA.

Service

  • Conference Sub-Reviewer: IEEE S&P (2020, 2019), CCS (2019, 2018), NDSS (2019), WWW (2019), ACSAC (2018), ASIACCS (2018), SecDev (2020), and CSET (2019)

Awards & Certifications

  • ETSU School of Graduate Studies Outstanding Thesis Award, April 18, 2018.
  • Tennessee Conference of Graduate Schools Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Feb 28, 2018. [Photo]
  • Outstanding Computing Graduate Student Award, Department of Computing, ETSU, April 20, 2017.
  • Samsung R&D Icon of the Month Award, Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh, March 2015.

Contact

Torgersen Hall, 2220 (D)
620 Drillfield Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061
Email: ahmedms AT vt DOT edu