Syed Rafiul Hussain
Scholar

Syed Rafiul Hussain

Google Scholar ID: 4jJmMpoAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State
Network and Systems SecurityAutomated ReasoningFormal Verification5G
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,452
 
H-index
20
 
i10-index
25
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
70
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • NSF CAREER Award (2022)
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) (2022)
  • Research influenced 4G and 5G cellular standards
  • Work discussed by the FCC and covered by 100+ global media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, ACM TechNews, and MIT Technology Review
  • Multiple papers accepted to top-tier security venues: IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, BlackHat USA, etc.
  • 5GBaseChecker received Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security ’24
  • Open-sourced software artifacts from research group
Background
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
  • Research interests broadly lie in network and systems security
  • Leads the Systems and Network Security (SyNSec) research group
  • Focuses on improving security and privacy in the design and software implementations of emerging networks and complex systems
  • Takes a holistic, ground-up approach: design analysis, implementation evaluation, runtime monitoring, and high-assurance defense construction
  • Integrates formal methods, program analysis, software testing, signal processing, and cryptography