Summary
Sazzadur Rahaman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona who leads the Security, Privacy and Reliability Lab, focusing on making security research more democratized and affordable. With 14 years of experience spanning industry and academia, he blends program analysis, formal verification, applied cryptography, internet measurement, and machine learning to build robust, practical systems. He completed a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech under Dr. Danfeng Yao and emphasizes transitioning research into deployable solutions. Prior to academia he shipped payment and secure card-management systems as a software engineer, giving him deep, standards-driven expertise in EMV, GlobalPlatform, and cloud HCE architectures. Based in Tucson, he pairs rigorous formal methods with hands-on engineering to tackle real-world threat models. Colleagues note his uncommon mix of production-grade payments experience and formal security research, enabling pragmatic yet verifiable defenses.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
H.S.C, H.S.C at Government Science College
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
S.S.C, S.S.C at Sonaimuri High School
Bengali, English