I am an Assistant Professor in the School of EECS at Washington State University (WSU). I lead the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Research Lab (CPS2RL). Before joining EECS@WSU, I held an Assistant Professor position in the School of Computing at Wichita State University from 2021-2022. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). My doctoral work focused on securing real-time systems, particularly integrating security as a first-class design principle in real-time schedulers.
See more on my curriculum vitae and research publications.
Graduate Student Openings (Fall 2025): I look forward to hiring two PhD students who will be working on the topics related to (i) security and resiliency of real-time and CPS/IoT/V2X/edge systems, (ii) human-robot interactions, and (iii) building resource-aware ML systems. Students with prior research experience, expertise in Systems (operating systems, embedded systems programming, Linux kernel development), and significant online presence (contributing to open-source tools, active visibility on GitHub or similar platforms) are strongly encouraged to contact me.
Recent News
- November 2024 (#2)
Babar won the prestigious Alfred Suksdorf Memorial Scholarship from VCEA. Big congratulations! - November 2024 (#1)
Our recent project on software-defined cyber-physical networks is featured in WSU Insider. [Link] [PDF] - September 2024
I am invited to serve on the technical program committee of ISORC'25, RTAS'25, and VLSID'25. - August 2024 (#2)
Tamim joins CPS2RL to pursue his PhD. Welcome! - August 2024 (#1)
New NSF project awarded! This 3-year grant helps our team explore new software-defined networking and programmable switch technologies (e.g., P4) to enhance the reliability and safety of critical cyber-physical networks. - May 2024
DeepTrustRT accepted to ECRTS'24! Congratulations, Babar! - March 2024
Two papers accepted to ISORC'24: RESCUE (congrats, Zain & Mohammad) and FrameLeaker (well done, Babar). - February 2024 (#2)
We published a systemization (SoK) paper on real-time security at the ACM CSUR journal. This is the first comprehensive work on systemizing the real-time security field. - February 2024 (#1)
Our recent work on benchmarking language models for embedded platforms was accepted to ICPE'24. Congratulations, Babar & Souvika! - January 2024
RTAutoSec (collocated with ECRTS'24) website is published!
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Contact Info
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