About Me

I am a Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Muhlenberg College. My research interest lies in the security of computer networks, with a special focus on security of IoT devices.

I 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 earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017.

Whether it is a research collaboration or a friendly chat, feel free to email me at proyashpodder@muhlenberg.edu or visit me at Trumbower Building, Room 143.

News
  • 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]
Projects
  • 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).
Publications
  1. Seanac: Schema enforced automation of name-based access control
    Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev
    International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). IEEE, 2023  
  2. SPA: A Scalable Pedestrian-awareness Application using NDN over CV2X
    Proyash Podder, Azin Neishaboori, Somak Dutta Gupta, Alex Afanasyev
    International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). IEEE, 2023  
  3. On improving versatility of versec trust schema [Paper]
    Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev
    9th ACM Conference on Information- Centric Networking, 2022  
  4. A Systematic Analysis to Improve Versatility of Versec Trust Schema[Paper]
    Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev
    IEEE the 5th International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking  
  5. 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
  6. Securing automotive architectures with named data networking[Paper]
    Zachariah Threet, Christos Papadopoulos, William Lambert, Proyash Podder, Spiros Thanasoulas, Alex Afanasyev, Sheikh Ghafoor, Susmit Shannigrahi
    IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)  
  7. In-Vehicle Communication Using Named Data Networking[Paper]
    Zachariah Threet, Christos Papadopoulos, Proyash Podder, William Lambert, Haley Burnell, Alex Afanasyev, Sheikh Ghafoor, Susmit Shannigrahi
    Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec)  
  8. A formal security analysis of ZigBee (1.0 and 3.0)[Paper]
    Proyash Podder, Li Li, Endadul Hoque
    Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security  
  9. Ndnviber: Vibration-assisted automated bootstrapping of iot devices [Paper]
    Sanjeev kaushik Ramani, Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev
    IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)  
  10. Expat: Expectation-based policy analysis and enforcement for appified smart-home platforms[Paper]
    Moosa Yahyazadeh,Proyash Podder, Endadul Hoque, Omar Chowdhury
    Proceedings of the 24th ACM symposium on access control models and technologies