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Education

• Ph.D in Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University

Work experience

• Spring 2023: Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
  • Newcastle University
• Fall 2020: Lecturer in Cyber Security
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Duties included: Teaching and Research
• Spring 2020: Research Fellow in Cyber Security
  • Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • Duties included: Research at National Satellite of Excellence DeST-SCI
  • Supervisor: Professor Jianying Zhou

Publications

Limitations of state estimation based cyber attack detection schemes in industrial control systems

C. M. Ahmed, S. Adepu and A. Mathur, "Limitations of state estimation based cyber attack detection schemes in industrial control systems," 2016 Smart City Security and Privacy Workshop (SCSP-W), Vienna, 2016, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SCSPW.2016.7509557.

Model-based Attack Detection Scheme for Smart Water Distribution Networks

Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Carlos Murguia, and Justin Ruths. 2017. Model-based Attack Detection Scheme for Smart Water Distribution Networks. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security ASIA CCS17. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA

NoisePrint: Attack Detection Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint in Cyber Physical Systems

Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Martin Ochoa, Jianying Zhou, Aditya P. Mathur, Rizwan Qadeer, Carlos Murguia, and Justin Ruths. 2018. NoisePrint: Attack Detection Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint in Cyber Physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 483–497. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3196494.3196532

Scanning the Cycle: Timing-based Authentication on PLCs

Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Martin Ochoa, Jianying Zhou, and Aditya Mathur. 2021. Scanning the Cycle: Timing-based Authentication on PLCs. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS 21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 886–900. https://doi.org/10.1145/3433210.3453102

Attack Rules: An Adversarial Approach to Generate Attacks for Industrial Control Systems using Machine Learning

Muhammad Azmi Umer, Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Muhammad Taha Jilani, and Aditya P. Mathur. 2021. Attack Rules: An Adversarial Approach to Generate Attacks for Industrial Control Systems using Machine Learning. In Proceedings of the 2th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec 21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462633.3483976

Energy Level Spoofing Attacks and Countermeasures in Blockchain-enabled IoT

A. H. Khan, H. Ikram, C. M. Ahmed, N. U. Hassan and Z. A. Uzmi, "Energy Level Spoofing Attacks and Countermeasures in Blockchain-enabled IoT," GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 4322-4327, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001609.

Talks

On Sensor Fingerprinting in Cyber Physical Systems

September 01, 2016

Talk at University of Padua, Padova, Italy

On Attack Detection in Cyber Physical Systems

July 01, 2017

Talk at CryptoBG 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

CPS and IoT Security

November 01, 2017

Conference proceedings talk at Singapore Cyber Security Consortium at National University of Singapore, Singapore

CPS and IoT Security: NoisePrint

July 01, 2018

Conference proceedings talk at Singapore Cyber Security Consortium at National University of Singapore, Singapore

Noise Matters: Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint to Detect Stealthy Cyber Attacks and Authenticate sensors in CPS

January 07, 2019

Conference proceedings talk at Universidad Los Andes, Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Teaching

Computer Networking

Computer System Engineering

Advanced Information Security

Advanced Information Security

Computer Systems and Architecture

Security Analysis of Complex Systems

System Security

Service and leadership

• Reviewer (Journals):
  • ACM TOPS (2021)
  • Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (2021)
  • Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2019)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial informatics (2020)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2020)
  • IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (2019)
  • IEEE Access (2018)
  • The Journal of Franklin Institute (2018 - 2020)
  • Sub-Reviewer MDPI Journal Sensors
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
• Reviewer (Conferences):
  • IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2020
  • IEEE Emerging Technologies for Security in IoT (ETSecIoT) 2020
  • ACM CPSS workshop 2020
  • ICICS 2019 The 21st International Conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Sub-Reviewer ACM AsiaCCS 2019 - 2020
  • sub-reviewer ESORICS 2019
  • sub-reviewer ACM CCS 2019
  • IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS) 2018 - 2020
  • IEEE DSR 2019
  • IEEE 13th Innovation in Information Technology Conference 2018
  • IEEE ICCAIS 2019
• MS Thesis Supervised:
  • Darren Ng Wei Hong titled “Data Integrity Attack Detection in Smart Grid System” MSSD 2018
  • Sharon Lee, titled “Threat Modeling Analysis on Industrial Control Systems: Case Study on a Secure Water Treatment System” MSSD 2019
  • Kuizhen Su, “Time Series Clustering for SWaT Process”, MSSD 2019
• Supervised Undergraduate Student Internships:
  • Animesh Singh (IIT Delhi India)
  • Surabhi Athalye (SUTD Singapore)
  • Mark Chuah (SUTD Singapore)