Research Interests

IoT Security and Privacy

The focus of my research is to make IoT as a platform more secure. IoT is not the future any more it is as much present as anything and security and privacy aspect of it has been understated. The impact billions of insecure and vulnerable devices can have is huge. Through my research I want to make the platform more secure and privacy preserving.

Web Security

Web is the primary component which connects millions of people worldwide and enables interactions through various other platforms. To ensure security and privacy in web and its applications are of paramount importance and a passion of mine. My research work focuses on preventing bad actors from doing bad things and giving control back to the users

Publications

Understanding the Privacy Implications of Adblock Plus's Acceptable Ads

Ahsan Zafar, Aafaq Sabir, Dilawer Ahmed, Anupam Das
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021

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Analyzing the Feasibility and Generalizability of Fingerprinting Internet of Things Devices

Dilawer Ahmed, Anupam Das, Fareed Zaffar
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2022

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Poster: Fingerprinting IoT Devices in Open-world Setting

Dilawer Ahmed, Benjamin Zhang, Anupam Das
NDSS, 2022

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Resume

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Teaching

CSC 474: Computer and Network Security

North Carolina State University, Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant

CS 471: Network Security

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant

CS 225: Fundamentals of Computer Systems

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant

CS 225: Fundamentals of Computer Systems

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant

Contact

Phone

+1 (nine 84)-three eight 9-37 six 7

Email

dahmed2 at ncsu dot edu

Address

Department of Computer Science, 890 Oval Dr, Engineering Building II, Raleigh, NC 27695