Mujtahid Akon
a.k.a. Mujtahid Al-Islam Akon
Ph.D. Student (2nd year)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
W362 Westgate Bldg, University Park, PA 16802
Email: mba5773@psu.edu, mujtahid.akon@gmail.com
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University, currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Syed Rafiul Hussain. Prior to this, I served as a lecturer in the Department of CSE at BRAC University and gained valuable industry experience as a software engineer (iOS) at Reve Systems.
My research interest lies in security and privacy, with a focus on computer networks and systems, including cellular networks, embedded devices, and the IoT. I aim to address security and privacy concerns by systematically analyzing and developing security technologies for emerging communication systems and protocols, utilizing formal methods, program analysis, software testing, and cryptography.
My research carrier of 1.5 years has already begun making an impact in the field. My recent research has uncovered significant access control vulnerabilities on the 5G core network, earning me recognition and commendation from the GSMA mobile security research.
I completed my Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Engg.) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in September 2017.
In gratitude to my community, I volunteered as an associate editor at Byapon, a national youth science magazine published bi-monthly, from 2015 to 2022. My role involved promoting science among secondary and higher secondary grade students.
News
October 2023: Hermes has been accepted to USENIX Security’24. Paper Link
October 2023: Received ACM CCS Travel Grant Award.
July 2023: 5GCVerif has been accepted to CCS 2023. Paper Link
July 2023: Our proposed six 5G Core Network attacks have been acknowledged by GSMA (CVD-2023-0069).
January 2022: Started working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Pennsylvania State University.
January 2022: Started Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.
October 2021: ADACT published in Bioinformatics Journal.
May 2018: Joined as a full-time lecturer in the Department of CSE at BRAC University.
November 2017: Started working as a junior software engineer (iOS) at Reve Systems.
Publicatons
Peer-Reviewed Conference
[C2] Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar, Kai Tu, Tianwei Wu, Zhezheng Song, Weixuan Wang, Mujtahid Akon, Rui Zhang, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Hermes: Unlocking Security Analysis of Cellular Network Protocols by Synthesizing Finite State Machines from Natural Language Specifications, Accepted for publication on the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024.
[C1] Mujtahid Akon, Tianchang Yang, Yilu Dong, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Formal Analysis of Access Control Mechanism of 5G Core Network, Accepted for publication at the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023.
Peer-Reviewed Journal
[J1] Mujtahid Akon, Muntashir Akon, Mohimenul Kabir, M Saifur Rahman, M Sohel Rahman, ADACT: a tool for analysing (dis)similarity among nucleotide and protein sequences using minimal and relative absent words, Bioinformatics, Volume 37, Issue 10, May 2021, Pages 1468–1470