Chowdhury Sharif Hasan PhD Student Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine CA 92697, USA hasanc@uci.edu 414-326-5720
Hi, I am Chowdhury Sharif Hasan. I am currently a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. I work in the area of Network Security (particularly - RFID and Usable security) with Prof. Gene Tsudik and am affiliated with SCONCE and the SPROUT Usable Security Group. Earlier I got my Masters degree in Computer Science from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. I completed my Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).   Academics - 2010 - now: Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (Advisor: Gene Tsudik)  - 2008 - 2010: M.S. in Computer Science, Marquette University, USA - GPA 3.96/4 (Advisor: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed) - 2001 - 2006: B.S. in Computer Science , Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh - GPA 3.76/4   Awards & Honors - Chair's Fellowship, ICS, UCI, 2010. - Best Paper Award (IEEE COMPSAC'2009). - Dean's List Award in B.Sc. Program at BUET - for academic results in 3  academic years. - Higher Secondary (12th Grade) Merit Scholarship - 9th out of ~200,000 students. - Secondary School (10th Grade) Merit Scholarship - 1st out of ~700,000 students.   Research Area - Security & Privacy in Pervasive Systems - Usable Security   Journal Publications   1. Sheikh I. Ahamed , Haifeng Li, Nilothpal Talukder, Mehrab Monjur and Chowdhury Sharif Hasan, "Design and Implementation of S-MARKS: A Secure Middleware for Pervasive Computing Applications", Elsevier Journal of System and Software (JSS), 2009. [PDF]   Conference/Workshop Publications   2. Chowdhury S. Hasan and Sheikh I. Ahamed, "An Approach for Ensuring Robust Safeguard against Location Privacy Violation", Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Computer and Software Applications Conference (IEEE COMPSAC 2010), Seoul, Korea, July 19 - July 23, 2010.(Candidate for Best Paper Award). [PDF]     3. Mehrab Monjur, Sheikh I. Ahamed and Chowdhury S. Hasan, "ELALPS: A Framework to Eliminate Location Anonymizer from Location Privacy Systems", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Computer and Software Applications Conference (IEEE COMPSAC 2009), Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20 - July 24, 2009. (Best Paper Award) [PDF]   4. Chowdhury S. Hasan, Sheikh I. Ahamed and Mohammad Tanviruzzaman, "A Privacy Enhancing Approach for Identity Inference Protection in Location-Based Services", Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Computer and Software Applications Conference (IEEE COMPSAC 2009), Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20 - July 24, 2009. [PDF]   5. Mohammad Tanviruzzaman, Sheikh I. Ahamed, and Chowdhury S. Hasan, "ePet: When Cell Phone Learns to Recognize its User", Workshop on Assurable and Usable Security Configuration (SafeConfig), ACM CCS 2009, Chicago, USA, November 9, 2009. [PDF]                6. Sheikh I. Ahamed, Donghyun Kim, Chowdhury S. Hasan and Mohammad Zulkernine, "Towards Developing a Trust Based Security Solution (TBSS) For Wireless Sensor Network", Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009. [PDF]   7. Rezwan Islam, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Chowdhury S. Hasan and Mohammad Tanviruzzaman, "Towards Universal Access to Home Monitoring for Assisted Living Environment", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2009), San Diego, CA, USA, July 19- July 24, 2009. [PDF]   8. Md. Abul Kashem, Chowdhury Sharif Hasan and Anupam Bhattarchjee, "An Algorithm for Solving the Minimum Vertex-Ranking Spanning Tree Problem on Series Parallel Graphs", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2006), pp. 328-332, 19-21 December 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [PDF]   Book Chapter   9. Shameem Ahmed, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin, and Chowdhury S. Hasan, "Self-healing for Autonomic Pervasive Computing", in the Springer Book "Autonomic Communication". [PDF]   Poster Presentation   10. "Reliable Location Privacy System without Location Anonymizer", ORSP Forward Thinking Poster Session/Colloquy, November 2008, Marquette University. [PPT]   11. "A Privacy Enhancing Approach for Safeguarding Re-identification Attacks in Location Based Services", Sigma XI Poster Symposium, April, 2009, Marquette University. [PPT]