Assistant Professor @ECE, UCF

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Contact: mohammad.rahman@ucf.edu Office: 407-823-1425

Harris Engineering Center Room-339

Sazadur is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida. He is affiliated with both ECE and CS department at UCF under the “Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster”. Before joining UCF, Sazadur was a Security Architecture Engineer at Intel Corporation working in security hardening and threat modeling of next generation Xeon processors. He earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida under the supervision of Prof. Mark Tehranipoor at FICS Lab. Earlier, Sazadur received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Before starting his graduate studies, Sazadur was a design engineer in different fabless semiconductor companies for four years to work on industrial scale 28nm and 14nm custom ICs. He has co-authored more than twenty peer-reviewed research papers, three patents (1 granted), one textbook, and several book-chapters during his Doctoral degree. His research works are showcased in premier ACM/IEEE journals and conferences, including the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Elsevier Integration, and ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). He has multiple internship experiences at Intel Corporation, where he performed FIPS 140-3 security certification and developed an automated threat model review tool for different adversary models. His research interests include Semiconductor Supply Chain Security, AI-Assured Chip Design, Secure Heterogeneous Integration, and Hardware Acceleration of Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

selected publications

  1. LLE: Mitigating IC Piracy and Reverse Engineering by Last Level Edit
    M Sazadur Rahman, Nitin Varshney, Farimah Farahmandi, Navid Asadi, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In 2023 ASM ISTFA, 2023
  2. LL-ATPG: logic-locking aware test using valet keys in an untrusted environment
    M Sazadur Rahman, Henian Li, Rui Guo, Fahim Rahman, Farimah Farahmandi, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In 2021 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), 2021
  3. ReTrustFSM: Toward RTL Hardware Obfuscation-A Hybrid FSM Approach
    M Sazadur Rahman, Rui Guo, Hadi M Kamali, Fahim Rahman, Farimah Farahmandi, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In 2023 IEEE Access, vol 11, pp 19741-19761., 2023
  4. RTL-FSMx: Fast and Accurate Finite State Machine Extraction at the RTL for Security Applications
    Rasheed Kibria, M Sazadur Rahman, Farimah Farahmandi, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In 2022 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), pp 167-174., 2022
  5. Security assessment of dynamically obfuscated scan chain against oracle-guided attacks
    M Sazadur Rahman, Adib Nahiyan, Fahim Rahman, Saverio Fazzari, Kenneth Plaks, Farimah Farahmandi, Domenic Forte, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), vol 26, number 4, pp 1-27., 2021
  6. Rethinking watermark: Providing proof of ip ownership in modern socs
    N Nalla Anandakumar, M Sazadur Rahman, Mridha Md Mashahedur Rahman, Rasheed Kibria, Upoma Das, Farimah Farahmandi, Fahim Rahman, and Mark M Tehranipoor
    2022
  7. The key is left under the mat: On the inappropriate security assumption of logic locking schemes
    M Tanjidur Rahman, Shahin Tajik, M Sazadur Rahman, Mark Tehranipoor, and Navid Asadizanjani
    In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), pp 262-272., 2020
  8. Defense-in-depth: A recipe for logic locking to prevail
    M Tanjidur Rahman, M Sazadur Rahman, Huanyu Wang, Shahin Tajik, Waleed Khalil, Farimah Farahmandi, Domenic Forte, Navid Asadizanjani, and Mark Tehranipoor
    In 2020 Integration, vol 72, pp 39-57, Elsevier., 2020