S M Zia Ur Rashid
Graduate Research Student, The University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Biography
Zia is a doctoral student in the School of Cyber Studies at The University of Tulsa (TU) under the supervision of Dr. Weiping Pei. He is a TU-Team8 Cyber Fellows and a member of Security and Privacy Research Group lead by Dr. Pei, currently working on Anti-money Laundering project, focusing Graph ML approach to detect malicious & fraud account and transactions. His principal research and technical interests are in information security and privacy. His research foci include AI/ML driven security, vulnerability and risk management, offensive approach for defensive security including web, network, mobile, ci/cd, kubernetes, docker, and cloud environment. He is also passionate in red teaming and ethical hacking. Prior to starting PhD at TU, he worked as an Information Security Specialist at Augmedix Inc. (NASDAQ: AUGX). He was also a member of Synack Red Team (SRT) and an organizing member of Defcon 30 Cloud Village. He received his bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2019. Since his undergrad, he participates in bug bounty programs and contributes to secure Microsoft, US Department of Defense (DoD), Github, Uber and so forth.
Research Interest
Cyber Security | Information Security | AI/ML Security
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