I am a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of Muhlenberg College. My research interest lies in the security of computer networks, with a special focus on automation of security tools of Named Data Networking (NDN).
I have received my PhD in Computer Science from the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) in 2023.
Before that, I received my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017.
- 08/2023 Joined Muhlenberg College as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science.
- 06/2023 Successfully passed my PhD Dissertation Defense, and officially become a Dr.
- 03/2023 Presented my PhD Proposal and became a PhD Candidate.
- 03/2023 Organized and attended 14th NDN hackathon and worked on designing NDN 101 website for newcomers to learn NDN interactively.
- 03/2023 Attended NDNComm and our ongoing work SEANAC is presented.
- 02/2023 Presented two of my papers in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [IEEE ICNC 2023]
- 11/2022 Two of my papers have been accepted in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [IEEE ICNC 2023]
- SEANAC: Schema Enforced Automation of Name-based Access Control
- Develop a policy language that allows users to describe the access control requirements of an application.
- Construct a compiler that can generate all the necessary information based on the user policy.
- Implement an automated system for key generation and distribution to streamline the access control process.
- Trust Schema development for Named-Data-Networking (NDN)
- Devise a domain-specific language that can describe trust schemas within NDN.
- Construct a compiler capable of transforming trust-schema rules into a well-structured format, and design appropriate encoding and TLV/Binary format.
- Develop a methodology to integrate and implement this trust schema into an NDN client library, such as ndn-cxx.
- Hydra: Secure, Distributed Storage Framework
- This project aims to address the challenges faced by genomics communities in terms of publication and data access by enabling secure and scalable data access for a large number of users.
- Develop and implement the (a) security bootstrapping procedure for both Hydra nodes and users and (b) access control policies.
- Securing Automotive Architectures with Named Data Networking
- The objective of this project is to establish a fundamental security infrastructure for communication within vehicles.
- Incorporate NDN to connect various link layer protocols, including CAN, LIN, and automotive Ethernet, into a cohesive and secure communication network.
- CV2X Communication over Named Data Networking (NDN)
- The project aims to initiate exploration of 5G CV2X/NDN technology pair by creating a comprehensive simulation package to demonstrate capabilities under various realistic network and road conditions.
- Designed and implemented a forwarding strategy for vehicular network to build a scalable communication system by effective suppression mechanism of similar Interest and Data packets, and geographical bound.
- Evaluated our approach in the context of a pedestrian safety application using ns-3 (ndnSIM) and SUMO as simulating platform; compare our approach with a traditional pedestrian safety application demonstrating advantages of our proposal
- Formal Analysis of Zigbee protocol
- Modeled various versions of Zigbee protocol and analyzed the security properties of it to discover vulnerabilities using Tamarin Prover, a security protocol verification tool.
- Experimented with sniffed Zigbee packets to explore those vulnerabilities practically and classified different attacks.
- Vulnerability Detection and Prevention for IoT devices
- Developed a security mechanism for programmable smart home platforms based on user’s expectation based policy.
- Demonstrated the generality and feasibility of our system by instantiating it for openHAB (open Home Automation Bus).
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Seanac: Schema enforced automation of name-based access control
Proyash Podder, Alex AfanasyevInternational Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). IEEE, 2023
- SPA: A Scalable Pedestrian-awareness Application using NDN over CV2X
Proyash Podder, Azin Neishaboori, Somak Dutta Gupta, Alex AfanasyevInternational Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). IEEE, 2023- On improving versatility of versec trust schema [Paper]
Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev9th ACM Conference on Information- Centric Networking, 2022- A Systematic Analysis to Improve Versatility of Versec Trust Schema[Paper]
Proyash Podder, Alex AfanasyevIEEE the 5th International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking- Hydra--A Federated Data Repository over NDN [Paper]
Justin Presley, Xi Wang, Tym Brandel, Xusheng Ai, Proyash Podder, Tianyuan Yu, Varun Patil, Lixia Zhang, Alex Afanasyev, F Alex Feltus, Susmit Shannigrahi- Securing automotive architectures with named data networking[Paper]
Zachariah Threet, Christos Papadopoulos, William Lambert, Proyash Podder, Spiros Thanasoulas, Alex Afanasyev, Sheikh Ghafoor, Susmit ShannigrahiIEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)- In-Vehicle Communication Using Named Data Networking[Paper]
Zachariah Threet, Christos Papadopoulos, Proyash Podder, William Lambert, Haley Burnell, Alex Afanasyev, Sheikh Ghafoor, Susmit ShannigrahiWorkshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec)- A formal security analysis of ZigBee (1.0 and 3.0)[Paper]
Proyash Podder, Li Li, Endadul HoqueProceedings of the 7th Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security- Ndnviber: Vibration-assisted automated bootstrapping of iot devices [Paper]
Sanjeev kaushik Ramani, Proyash Podder, Alex AfanasyevIEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)- Expat: Expectation-based policy analysis and enforcement for appified smart-home platforms[Paper]
Moosa Yahyazadeh,Proyash Podder, Endadul Hoque, Omar ChowdhuryProceedings of the 24th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies - SPA: A Scalable Pedestrian-awareness Application using NDN over CV2X