About me

I am a fourth year PhD student at Virginia Commonwealth University where I work on problems in the area of Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at the SAFE lab under the guaidance of Dr. Irfan Ahmed. Recently, my research has been particularly focused on Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructre Security where I work on discovering vulnerabilites in ICS devices, developing digital forencis tools for investigating network based attacks on ICS and creating frameworks for collecting ICS threat Intelligence. Before joining VCU, I completed my B.S with computer science major from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). In my free time I like to play videogames, enhance my cooking skills and travel around the country.

Please email me for a detailed list of my research projects!

Research Interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Digital Forensics
  • Internet of Things
  • Threat Intelligence

Recent News

  • [Feb 2022] I presented my work titled “ “A Case Study of Virtual Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Forensic Framework on Investigating Control Logic Attacks in a Belt Conveyor System” at 74th AAFS
  • [July 2022] My paper titled ““Control Logic Forensics Framework using Built-in Decompiler of Engineering Software in Industrial Control Systems “ won the BEST STUDENT PAPER award at DFRWS’20