“As someone who works in the Computer forensics research lab at UAB on a daily basis, I see a lot of students and work personally with many. Shams was just operating on a whole other level! While I've worked with many students on applications that used the cloud, Shams is the first researcher I've worked with (other than his mentor Ragib Hasan) who was a true native of the cloud. He works instinctively in many-terabyte cloud data analysis tasks, intuitively scaling our solutions to as many as hundreds of nodes as easily as us old-timers would drop to a shell (or an Excel spreadsheet) to crunch some numbers! I was in constant amazement of the way he was able to work so easily with extraordinarily large data sets, with a Mastery of several program languages as well. I hope to collaborate with him again some time in the future, and will truly miss his presence in the lab, and the generosity with which he shared his expertise with other researchers and with me!”
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Shams Zawoad is currently working at Visa Inc. as the Director of Cyber Threat Analytics…
Experience & Education
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Instructor for Java Summer Camp
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Present 12 years
Education
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Trainer of a 4 day Ruby on Rails Workshop Organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network.
Code 71 Inc.
- Present 16 years
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Judge at UAB Research Expo 2016
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Present 8 years 4 months
Education
Publications
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Towards Building Forensics Enabled Cloud Through Secure Logging-as-a-Service
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2016. (Impact factor 1.351)
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Trustworthy Digital Forensics in the Cloud
IEEE Computer (Impact factor 1.443)
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Chronos: Towards Securing System Time in the Cloud for Reliable Forensics Investigation
40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC)
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How Secure is the Healthcare Network from Insider Attacks? An Audit Guideline for Vulnerability Analysis
40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC)
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StuxMob: A Situational-Aware Malware for Targeted Attack on Smart Mobile Devices
Premier International Conference for Military Communications
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Towards Achieving Reliable Digital Forensics in IaaS and StaaS Clouds Using the Open Cloud Forensics Model
Services Transactions on Cloud Computing
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Digital Forensics in the Age of Big Data: Challenges, Approaches, and Opportunities
IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2015)
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FAIoT : Towards Building a Forensics Aware Eco System for the Internet of Things
12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC, 2015)
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FECloud: A Trustworthy Forensics-Enabled Cloud Architecture
11th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics
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LINCS: Towards Building a Trustworthy Litigation Hold Enabled Cloud Storage System
Digital Investigation, Elsevier, 2015. (Impact factor 1.648)
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OCF: An Open Cloud Forensics Model for Reliable Digital Forensics
8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2015)
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WORAL: A Witness Oriented Secure Location Provenance Framework for Mobile Devices
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing SI on Cyber Security
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`Who, When, and Where?’ Location Proof Assertion for Mobile Devices
28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec)
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CURLA: Cloud-Based Spam URL Analyzer for Very Large Datasets
7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
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Towards a Cloud-based Approach for Spam URL Deduplication for Big Datasets
International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC)
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Towards Building A Forensics Aware Language For Secure Logging
Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
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UDaaS: A Cloud-based URL-Deduplication-as-a-Service for Big Datasets
4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud)
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Digital Forensics in the Cloud
The Journal of Defense Software Engineering (CrossTalk)
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Phish-Net: Investigating Phish Clusters Using Drop Email Addresses
APWG eCrime Researchers Summit
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FAL: A Forensics Aware Language for Secure Logging
4th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL), 2013
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SecLaaS: Secure Logging-as-a-Service for Cloud Forensics
8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2013. (Acceptance rate: 16.2%)
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Secure Techniques and Methods for Authenticating Visually Impaired Mobile Phone Users
IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security
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Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices
8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2013. (Acceptance rate: 16.2%)
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I Have the Proof: Providing Proofs of Past Data Possession in Cloud Forensics
ASE International Conference on Cyber Security (Acceptance rate: 9.4%)
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Towards Building Proofs of Past Data Possession in Cloud Forensics
Academy of Science and Engineering Journal 2012
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OTIT: Towards Secure Provenance Modeling for Location Proofs
9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Kyoto, Japan, June 2014
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SECProv: Trustworthy and Efficient Provenance Management in the Cloud
IEEE INFOCOM, 2018
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Projects
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Vela Core ERP Solution
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Customized ERP solution using Java Enterprise Architecture
Designed and Developed architecture and databases structure for Authentication and Authorization, Marketing, Commercial, and HR modules. Developed the form navigation framework of the application. Led the development of Marketing and Commercial modules.
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Honors & Awards
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The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award (Doctoral)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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2nd position in 2013 UAB Graduate Student Research Days competition
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Dean's List Award for academic excellence in several terms of undergraduate study.
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Secured 1st position among more than 200,000 examinees of the Rajshahi Education Board and 5th in the whole country among more than 1 million examinees in Higher Secondary Certificate examination, 2002 (equivalent to US High School Graduation).
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Secured 8th position among 250,000 students of the Rajshahi Education Board in Secondary School Certificate examination, 2000 (equivalent to US 10th grade).
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Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research award, 2015.
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Student Travel Gant - APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, 2013.
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Student Travel Grant - DFRWS US, 2015.
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Student Travel Grant - IEEE Syposium on Security and Privacy,2013
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Student Travel Grant - USENIX Federated Conferences Week 2012.
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Team member of runners up team in web site competition for CSE department of BUET.
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