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Dr. Shawon Rahman

Shawon RahmanDr. Shawon Rahman Dr. Shawon S.M. Rahman is a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi Hilo (UH Hilo), a recognized Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Minority Serving Institution. He is currently a Faculty Applied Clean Energy Sciences (FACES) Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where he focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Additionally, Dr. Rahman holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), specializing in Cybersecurity. With over 18 years of teaching experience in both in-class and online formats, Dr. Rahman has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses. He has served as the dissertation chair and primary supervisor for 15 Ph.D. graduates and has participated in numerous Ph.D. and MS dissertation committees. Dr. Rahman is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Cryptography and Information Security (IJCIS) and a guest editor for several journals. He reviews and serves on program committees for more than 15 conferences and journals. Over the past seven years, he has been actively involved in the Hawaii Statewide Assessment Program for Science, contributing to rubric validation, content reviews, fairness reviews, data reviews, content alignment, alternate assessment, and HSA-Alt alignment studies. Dr. Rahman collaborates with local middle schools, high schools, and community colleges to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Cybersecurity Career Pathway programs. He has secured and managed several federal, state, and foundation grants, including those from NSF, USDA, and DOE. His research interests include Cybersecurity, Information Assurance and Security, STEM Outreach, Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things Security, Web Accessibility, Robotics, Software Testing, and Quality Assurance. Dr. Rahman has published over 135 peer-reviewed articles and mentored numerous students, with at least 60 co-authoring their first peer-reviewed publication with him. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, including over 45 journal articles, in Cybersecurity and related domains. Dr. Rahman serves on several committees, including as Chair of the Chancellor Access Committee and as a member of the University Faculty Congress and NSF Review Panels. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including IEEE (senior member), ACM, CSTA, ASEE, ASQ, ISCA, and ISACA.

Courses

Professor Rahman's current semester's course offerings include:

  • CS 150 Intro To Computer Science I (3)
  • CS 435 Ethical Hacking (3)
  • CS 450 Org Of Programming Lang (3)

Education

  • Ph.D, Software Engineering, North Dakota State University
  • M.S., Computer Science, North Dakota State University
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology

Research Focus

  • Cybersecurity
  • Information Security and Assurance
  • Cyber-Physical Systems Security
  • STEM Outreach and Career Pathway
  • Mobile Application Development
  • Digital Forensics
  • Software Engineering Education
  • Web Accessibility and Usability
  • Software Testing and Quality Assurance
  • Robotics

Teaching Focus

  • Cybersecurity
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Security and Assurance
  • Digital Forensics and Investigations
  • Mobile Application Development
  • Management Information Systems
  • Computer Networking
  • Animation Programming
  • Web Application Development
  • Robotics Computation
  • Business Computation
  • Game Development

Services

Publications

Recent Publications-Selected Journals and Book Chapters

Selected and Recent Conference Papers

  • Kaushik, S; A. Bhardwaj and Rahman, Shawon, "MICORD-IDS: A Hybrid Learning System for Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Vehicles," IEEE 2024 7th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 485-492, doi: 10.1109/ICICT62343.2024.00085.
  • Bhardwaj, A. and Rahman, Shawon, "Review of Security Threats and Attacks on IoT-based New Age Ecosystems," IEEE 2024 7th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 413-420, doi: 10.1109/ICICT62343.2024.00073.
  • Bhardwaj, Akashdeep; Mangal, Aarohi, and Rahman, Shawon; “Critical Security Assessment of Insecure Vulnerable iOS Application”, 12th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (ICAEIC-2024), January 16-19, 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  • Schneider, Marvin and Rahman, Shawon; “Identifying Protection Motivation Theory Factors that Influence Smartphone Security Measures”; IEEE BigData 2021, Workshop on Big Data for CyberSecurity (BigCyber-2021), December 15-18 2021, DOI: 10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671882
  • Faizi, Salman and Rahman, Shawon; “Effect of Fear on Behavioral Intention to Comply”; ACM the 4th International Conference on Information System and Data Mining (ICISDM2020), May 15-17, 2020, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
  • Faizi, Salman; Rahman, Shawon; and Hopkins, Kevin “Implementing Large Enterprise Resource Planning Systems with Agile Methods”; IEEE International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Technology(ICIET) 2019, December 23-24, 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Faizi, Salman and Rahman, Shawon; “Secured Cloud for Enterprise Computing”; 34th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2019), March 18-20, 2019, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (INSPEC and Scopus Indexed).
  • Okonofua, Henry and Rahman, Shawon; “Evaluating the Risk Management Plan and Addressing Factors for Successes in Government Agencies”; 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18), August 1-3, 2018, New York, USA
  • Lidster, William and Rahman, Shawon; “Obstacles to Implementation of Information Security Governance”; 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things (SPTIoT 2018), August 1-3, 2018, New York, USA
  • Okonofua, Henry and Rahman, Shawon; “Cybersecurity: An Analysis of the Protection Mechanisms in a Cloud-centered Environment”; 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things (SPTIoT 2018), August 1-3, 2018, New York, USA
  • Hossain, Nazmul; Hossain, Md Alam; Hossain, Md Zobayer; Sohag, Md; and Rahman, Shawon; “OAuth-SSO: A Framework to Secure the OAuth-based SSO Service for Packaged Web Applications”; 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18), August 1-3, 2018, New York, USA
  • Ahamed, Syed; Rahman, Shawon, and Peoples, John; “Doctor-Patient Interaction: Procedural Methodology for Computer Based Medical Assistant (CBMA)”, IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication, Mechanical and Computing (EECCMC), Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India, January 28-29, 2018
  • Hossain, Md; Hossain, Nazmul; Shahid, Afridi and Rahman, Shawon; “Security Solution of RFID Card Through Cryptography”; The Third International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017
  • Jackson, George and Rahman, Shawon ; “Security Governance, Management, and Strategic Alignment via Capabilities”; IEEE 4th Annual Conference on Computation Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), The 2017 International Symposium on Cyber Warfare, Cyber Defense and Security (ISCW), Dec 14-16, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Rahman, Shawon and Jackson, George; “Autonomic Methods for Mitigating Threats to the Internet of Things (IoT) ”; IEEE 4th Annual Conference on Computation Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), The 2017 International Symposium on Internet of Things & Internet of Everything (CSCI-ISOT), Dec 14-16, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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