Education
NSERC/ISSNet post-doctoral fellow (2009-2011), Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
Ph.D. (2009) Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada
Research Interests
I am primarily interested in real-world systems security and privacy - how security systems miserably fail in reality, and how to design systems to survive against advanced attacks. Some topics of interest include: Android/iOS, IoT, CPS and hardware security; safety and security of AI/ML systems; anti-surveillance tools; authentication; privacy; usable security; ransomware, phishing, and financial security.
Biography - summary
Mohammad Mannan is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University (2009, with Paul Van Oorschot) in the area of Internet authentication and usable security. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto from 2009 to 2011 (with David Lie). His research interests lie in the area of Internet and systems security, with a focus on solving high-impact security and privacy problems of today's Internet. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine (from 2020), and was involved in several well-known conferences (e.g., program committee: ACM CCS 2019, 2016, USENIX Security 2018, 2022; program co-chair: ACM SPSM 2016), and journals (e.g., ACM TISSEC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS). His research is funded by: NSERC Discovery and Engage Grants, OPC Contributions Program, CIRA Community Investment Program, Mitacs Accelerate, and FRQNT. His industrial R&D experience prior to graduate school included three years in large-scale software design. His undergrad was from BUET, and he was fortunate to have his early research interests inspired by M. Kaykobad. His Mathematics Genealogy link can be found here.
