• PhD in Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2015
• MSc. in Security and Mobile Computing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, 2009
• MSc. in Engineering (Computer Science) University of Tartu, Estonia, 2009
• BSc. Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. 2004

Book Chapters

Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, M. J. M., Chowdhury, N., & Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2019). Integrated platforms for blockchain enablement. In S. Kim, G. C. Deka, & P. Zhang (Eds.), Advances in Computers (Vol. 115, pp. 41–72). Academic Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adcom.2019.01.001

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Poet, R. (2017). A hybrid model of attribute aggregation in federated identity management. In V. Chang, M. Ramachandran, R. J. Walters, & G. Wills (Eds.), Enterprise Security. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54380-2_6

Ferdous, M. S., Hussein Khalid Hussein, R., Alassafi Obad, M., Alharthi Ayad, A., Walters, R., & Wills, G. (2016). Threat taxonomy for cloud of things. In A. Al-Sabbagh & R. Alsabah (Eds.), Internet of Things and Big Data Analysis: Recent Trends and Challenges (pp. 149–190). United Scholars Publications. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/404527/

Ferdous, M. S., & Jøsang, A. (2013). Entity authentication and trust validation in PKI using petname systems. In A. Elçi, J. Pieprzyk, A. G. Chefranov, M. A. Orgun, H. Wang, & R. Shankaran (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems (pp. 302–333). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4030-6.ch013

Journals

Chowdhury, M. J. M., Usman, M., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, N., Harun, A. I., Jannat, U. S., & Biswas, K. (2021). A cross-layer trust-based consensus protocol for peer-to-peer energy trading using fuzzy logic. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3063710

Shammee, T. I., Akter, T., Mou, M., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2020). A systematic literature review of graphical password schemes. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, 16(4), 163–185. https://doi.org/10.5626/JCSE.2020.14.4.163

Chowdhury, M. J. M., Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., & Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2020). COVID-19 contact tracing: Challenges and future directions. IEEE Access, 8, 225703–225729. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3036718

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., Alassafi, M. O., Alshdadi, A. A., & Chang, V. (2020). Social anchor: Privacy-friendly attribute aggregation from social networks. IEEE Access, 8, 61844–61871. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2981553

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., & Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2020). Immutable autobiography of smart cars leveraging blockchain technology. Knowledge Engineering Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888920000028

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Alassafi, M. O. (2019). In search of self-sovereign identity leveraging blockchain technology. IEEE Access, 7, 103059–103079. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2931173

Chowdhury, M. J. M., Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., Kayes, A. S. M., Alazab, M., & Watters, P. (2019). A comparative analysis of distributed ledger technology platforms. IEEE Access, 7, 167930–167943. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2953729

Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2017). Performance analysis of R/Kademlia, Pastry and Bamboo using recursive routing in mobile networks. International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, 9(5), 41–54. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijcnc.2017.9504

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, S., & Jose, J. M. (2017). Analysing privacy in visual lifelogging. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 40, 430–449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.03.003

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2015). Managing dynamic identity federations using Security Assertion Markup Language. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 10(2), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-18762015000200005

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., & Hoque, M. A. (2021). A survey of consensus algorithms in public blockchain systems for crypto-currencies. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 182, 103035. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2021.103035

Chowdhury, M. J. M., Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., & Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2020). A survey on blockchain-based platforms for IoT use-cases. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 35, e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888920000284

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, S., & Jose, J. M. (2017). Geo-tagging news stories using contextual modelling. International Journal of Information Retrieval Research, 7(4), 50–71. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJIRR.2017100104

Conferences

Alom, I., Eshita, R. M., Harun, A. I., Ferdous, M. S., Shuhan, M. K. B., Chowdhury, M. J. M., & Rahman, M. S. (2021). Dynamic management of identity federations using blockchain. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461128

Chowdhury, A. A., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2020). A study of password security factors among Bangladeshi government websites. 23rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCIT51783.2020.9392745

Shahriar, M. A., Bappy, F. H., Hossain, A. K. M. F., Saikat, D. D., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., & Bhuiyan, M. Z. A. (2020). Modelling attacks in blockchain systems using petri nets. 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, 1069–1078. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00142

Bhuiyan, M. S. I., Razzak, A., Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M. J. M., Hoque, M. A., & Tarkoma, S. (2020). BONIK: A blockchain empowered chatbot for financial transactions. In G. Wang, R. Ko, M. Z. A. Bhuiyan, & Y. Pan (Eds.), 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020 (pp. 1079–1088). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00143

Moniruzzaman, M., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2020). Examining usability issues in blockchain-based cryptocurrency wallets. In T. Bhuiyan, M. M. Rahman, & M. A. Ali (Eds.), 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Cyber Security, ICONCS 2020 (pp. 631–643). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52856-0_50

Sarker, S., Saha, A. K., & Ferdous, M. S. (2020, December). A survey on blockchain cloud integration. 23rd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCIT51783.2020.9392748

Moniruzzaman, M., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2019, February). Measuring vulnerabilities of Bangladeshi websites. 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering, ECCE 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECACE.2019.8679426

Chowdhury, M. J. M., Ferdous, M. S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., Kayes, A. S. M., Watters, P., & Ng, A. (2019). Trust modeling for blockchain-based wearable data market. In J. Chen & L. T. Yang (Eds.), 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) (pp. 411–417). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2019.00070

Jannat, U. S., Hasnayeen, S. M., Bashar Shuhan, M. K., & Ferdous, M. S. (2019, February). Analysis and detection of malware in android applications using machine learning. 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering, ECCE 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECACE.2019.8679493

Siddiki, M. R., Talha, M. A., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2018). CrowdsouRS: A crowdsourced reputation system for identifying deceptive online contents. 20th International Conference of Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2017, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCITECHN.2017.8281829

Chowdhury, M., Ferdous, M. S., & Biswas, K. (2018, July 5). Blockchain platforms for IoT Use-cases. 2nd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT), 2019. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26129.94562

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, M., Biswas, K., & Chowdhury, N. (2018, October 19). Immutable autobiography of smart cars. 3rd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT), 2018.

Margheri, A., Ferdous, M. S., Yang, M., & Sassone, V. (2017). A distributed infrastructure for democratic cloud federations. In G. C. Fox (Ed.), 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2017 (pp. 688–691). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2017.93

Ferdous, M. S., Margheri, A., Paci, F., Yang, M., & Sassone, V. (2017). Decentralised runtime monitoring for access control systems in cloud federations. In K. Lee & L. Liu (Eds.), 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2017 (pp. 2632–2633). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2017.178

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Poet, R. (2017). A hybrid model of attribute aggregation in federated identity management. In V. Chang, M. Ramachandran, R. J. Walters, & G. Wills (Eds.), International Workshop on Enterprise Security, ES 2015 (Vol. 10131, pp. 120–154). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54380-2_6

Chowdhury, S., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. M. (2016). Understanding lifelog sharing preferences of lifeloggers. In P. C. (Ed.), 28th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2016 (pp. 649–651). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3010915.3011852

Chowdhury, S., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. M. (2016). Exploring lifelog sharing and privacy. In C. Parker (Ed.), 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 (pp. 553–558). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968320

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, S., & Jose, J. M. (2016). Privacy threat model in lifelogging. 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016, 576–581. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968324

Chowdhury, S., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. M. (2016). Bystander privacy in lifelogging. 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2016. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.62

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2016). Formalising identity management protocols. 14th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2016, 137–146. https://doi.org/10.1109/PST.2016.7906948

Chowdhury, S., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. M. (2016, June). A user-study examining visualization of lifelogs. 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI.2016.7500236

Chowdhury, S., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. M. (2016, July). Lifelogging user study: Bystander privacy. 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2016. https://doi.org/10.5555/3114770.3114810

Chowdhury, S., McParlane, P. J., Ferdous, M. S., & Jose, J. (2015). My day in review visually summarising noisy lifelog data. 5th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2015, 607–610. https://doi.org/10.1145/2671188.2749393

Ferdous, M. S., Norman, G., Jøsang, A., & Poet, R. (2015). Mathematical modelling of trust issues in federated identity management. In C. D. Jensen, S. Marsh, T. Dimitrakos, & Y. Murayama (Eds.), 9th IFIP Working Group 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, IFIPTM 2015 (Vol. 454, pp. 13–29). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18491-3_2

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2014). CAFS: A framework for context-aware federated services. 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2014, 130–139. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom.2014.21

Ferdous, M. S., Norman, G., & Poet, R. (2014). Mathematical modelling of identity, Identity Management and other related topics. In R. Poet (Ed.), 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2014 (pp. 9–16). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2659651.2659729

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2013). Portable personal identity provider in mobile phones. 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2013, 736–745. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom.2013.89

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2013). Analysing attribute aggregation models in federated identity management. 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2013, 181–188. https://doi.org/10.1145/2523514.2526998

Ferdous, M. S., & Poet, R. (2012). A comparative analysis of identity management systems. 2012 10th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2012, 454–461. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCSim.2012.6266958

Chadwick, D. W., Inman, G., Siu, K. W. S., & Ferdous, M. S. (2011). Leveraging social networks to gain access to organisational resources. 7th ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management, DIM’11 - Co-Located with 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2011, 43–51. https://doi.org/10.1145/2046642.2046653

Moniruzzaman, M., Ferdous, M. S., & Hossain, R. (2010). A study of privacy policy enforcement in access control models. 2010 13th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2010, 352–357. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCITECHN.2010.5723883

Ferdous, M. S., Jøsang, A., Singh, K., & Borgaonkar, R. (2009). Security usability of petname systems. In A. Jøsang, T. Maseng, & S. J. Knapskog (Eds.), 14th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems: Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age, NordSec 2009 (pp. 44–59). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_4

Kuldeep, S., Audun, J., Ferdous, M. S., & Borgaonkar, R. (2009). Spam filter optimality based on signal detection theory. 2nd International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN’09, 219–224. https://doi.org/10.1145/1626195.1626250

Ferdous, M. S., & Chowdhury, F. (2008). Covert channel communication in RFID (short paper). 1st International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2007, 47–52.

Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Acharjee, J. C. (2007). An extended algorithm to enhance the performance of the current NAPT. ICICT 2007: International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, 315–318. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICT.2007.375401

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. May 2021 to date
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. March 2018 to April 2021
• Research Associate, Centre for Financial Technology, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, UK. July 2017 to date
• Technology Fellow, Cabinet Office, UK. July 2017 to January 2018
• Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. September 2015 to June 2016
• Post-doctoral Research Assistant, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK. July 2014 to August 2015
• Postgraduate Tutor, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK. March 2011 to June 2014
• Research Assistant, School of Computing, University of Kent, UK. April 2010 to February 2011
• Assistant Professor, Department of ICT, Metropolitan University, Bangladesh, October 2009 to March 2010.
• Lecturer, Department of ICT, Metropolitan University, Bangladesh, May 2006 to August 2007
• Lecturer, Department. of Information and Communication Engineering, Southeast University, Bangladesh. February 2005 to May 2006

• Panel Speaker, Self-Sovereign Identity and Privacy of Data Blockchain Olympiad Bangladesh, 2021.
• Speaker, blockchain technical session for the participants of the Olympiad, 2021.
• Panel Speaker, 7th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), 2020.
• Webinar Speaker, Recent research trends in ICT. Institute of Information Technology, Jhangirnagar University, 2020.
• Speaker, Identity Federation and Its Benefits. In collaboration with the Australian Access Federation (AAF) under Asi@Connect project of “Increasing Federated Identity, Roaming and E-infrastructure (iFIRE)”.
• Keynote Speaker, Versatility of Blockchain Technology. BdREN, 2020
• Keynote Speaker, Blockchain Masterclass: An Exploration of What, Why, How and Other Issues in Blockchain. SUST CSE Alumni Association , 2020.

Conference & Workshops

• PC member, the 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom, 2020.
• Reviewer, Australasian Conference on Information System, ACIS, 2020.
• Track chair, the IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2020.
• Joint Secretary, the 2nd International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), 2019.
• Joint Secretary, the 1st International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing (ICBSLP), 2018.

• PC Member, the 3rd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT), 2018.
• Program Co-Chair, the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN’15), 2015.
• Local Arrangements Co-Chair, the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN’14), 2014.
• PC Member (Poster Chair), the 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN’13), 2013.
• Organiser of the 1st SICSA Cyber Security Conference, 2013.
• PC Member of the 17th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2012).
• Organiser of the workshop titled “Large Scale Experiments & Modelling” at the SICSA PhD Conference 2012.
4.4. Bangladesh Blockchain Olympiad, 2020 & 2021
• Distinguished Juror & Mentor

• Recipient of the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship for a year at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Bonn, Germany, 2021.
• ICT Innovation Fund of 8 lakh BDT ( 9500 USD) from the Ministry of Information and Communication of the Government of Bangladesh with two other collaborators for researching on a blockchain based e-KYC and reputation system.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Credits for Research, a grant of 20,000 USD in order to deploy a private blockchain evaluation framework within Amazon Clouds.
• Shahjalal University grant of 4.5 lakh BDT ( 5300 USD) to develop an identity federation within Shahjalal University/
• Recipient of the Student Travel Grants to present a paper at the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), 2012.
• Recipient of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) PhD Studentship for the doctoral study.
• Joint-author of the Award winning poster “A text free mobile phone contact book with social touch” at the 13th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT-systems (NordSec, 2008), Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Recipient of the prestigious European Union funded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for studying the Master’s in Security and Mobile Computing (NordSecMob).
• Awarded as the Best teacher of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering in Southeast University in the Fall Semester, 2006.

• IEEE

• Blockchain, Identity Management, Trust Management, Security and Privacy.