About

I'm a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University advised by Tom Ristenpart and studying applied security and privacy. My research interests focus on designing secure authentication systems and countermeasures to protect againnst abuse. Most recently, I have worked on detecting password guessing attacks on real login data. In my free time, I can be found singing opera music and running CTFs with MetaCTF.

Publications

• Mazharul Islam*, Marina Sanusi Bohuk*, Paul Chung, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee (*co-first authors). Arana: Discovering and Characterizing Password Guessing Attacks in Practice. (USENIX Security 2023).
• Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Mazharul Islam, Suleman Ahmad, Mike Swift, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee. Gossamer: Securely Measuring Password-based Logins. (USENIX Security 2022).    Paper    Slides    Project page
• Bijeeta Pal, Mazharul Islam, Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Nick Sullivan, Luke Valenta, Tara Whalen, Christopher Wood, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee. Might I Get Pwned: A Second Generation Compromised Credential Checking Service. (USENIX Security 2022).    Paper

Teaching

• Cornell
  • TA for CS4414: Operating Systems, Fred Schneider and Robbert Van Renesse (Fall 2019)
  • TA for CS5435: Security & Privacy in the Wild, Vitaly Shmatikov (Fall 2022)
• University of Virginia
  • Head TA for CS2150: Program and Data Representation, Mark Floryan and Aaron Bloomfield (2016-2018)
  • TA for CS4414: Operating Systems, Andrew Grimshaw (Spring 2018)
  • TA for CS1110: Introduction to Programming, Mark Sherriff and Luther Tychonievich (2014-2016)

Awards

• Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Award for Teaching, University of Virginia, May 2018
• Louis T. Rader Undergraduate Award for Service, University of Virginia, May 2016