Dr. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, SMIEEE
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University JMH 334, E Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458 USA
Abstract:
Currently, wireless radio signals are omnipresent and are around us; some pass through us, and some reflect off us. Tracking these signals gives the limit of ISM band radiometric detection to a new level, including our motion detection, gesture recognition, etc. In this talk, we will focus on answers to questions, without interrupting the data communication, how can radio signals be leveraged passively for various sensing tasks. For example, just raise your hand and finger-swipe into the air, your lights will power down; swipe your hand left-to-right, your TV channel will be changed; just tap your mobile screen to see your heartbeat. More importantly, can we imagine the signal features can also be leveraged to monitor our activities in an unauthorized manner, that is, what are we talking about and what are we doing at home or office, where are we going, and so on? These can be easily done through our mobile or router device by compromising their Wi-Fi signals from a remote place when we are the targets of hackers or some intended authorities. This is going to bring serious up-and-coming security and privacy concerns in our daily life. We will highlight how wireless signals monitoring can extend our senses, enabling us to track humans or objects through walls, behind closed doors, and in the dark where we cannot see, even cameras don’t work well, and security personnel cannot get in. Finally, we will discuss a set of interesting security and privacy problems with potential solutions to prevent its unauthorized utilization.
Bio:
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the Fordham University, NY, USA. He is the Director of Dependable and Secure System Research (DependSys) Lab and is affiliated with Fordham Center for Cybersecurity. Earlier, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Temple University and an Adjunct Professor at Harvard University. His research focuses on dependability, cybersecurity and privacy, and emerging IoT/CPS applications. Dr. Bhuiyan authored/co-authored over 140 publications that appeared in many prestigious journals, including top-tier IEEE/ACM/Elsevier journals/transactions, and conferences. 14 of his research papers have become the “ESI Highly Cited Papers” and two of them become “Hot Paper” in Computer Science fields. He was named on Stanford University’s List of Top 2% Scientists of the World 2020. He has also received the IEEE TCSC Award for Early Career Research Excellence (2016-2017) and the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Awards (2016, 2017, 2020), and so on. He has served as an organizer, general chair, program chair, workshop chair, and TPC member of various international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM.