
Saad Islam
Education:
MS Information Security, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan, 2013.
BE Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan, 2009.
Saad Islam is a Fulbright Scholar working at Vernam Applied Cryptography and Security Laboratory. His research interests are side channel attacks and post-quantum cryptography.
Office Location
Atwater Kent Laboratories 212a, 212b
Contact
Phone:
7246477615
Awards
Fulbright Scholarship Award, 2017
President's Gold Medal in M.S. Information Security, 2013
Best Paper Award in 2nd IC4, 2009
Merit based Scholarship in BE Electrical Engineering, 2005-2009
Professional Affiliations
Professional Affiliations:
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Side-Channel Attacks (SCA)
Scholarly Work
Scholarly Work:
Saad Islam, Ahmad Moghimi, Ida Bruhns, Moritz Krebbel, Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar. SPOILER: Speculative load hazards boost rowhammer and cache attacks. In 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19), pages 621–637, Santa Cl
Gulmezoglu, Berk, Andreas Zankl, M. Caner Tol, Saad Islam, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Berk Sunar. "Undermining User Privacy on Mobile Devices Using AI." In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 214-227. ACM,
Islam, Saad, Mehreen Afzal, and Adnan Rashdi. "On the security of LBlock against the cube attack and side channel cube attack." In International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, pp. 105-121. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.
Islam, Saad, and Inam Ul Haq. "Cube attack on Trivium and A5/1 stream ciphers." In 2016 13th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), pp. 409-415. IEEE, 2016.
Islam, Saad, and Inam Ul Haq. "Authenticated mode of Trivium." In 2016 13th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), pp. 368-372. IEEE, 2016.
Islam, Saad, Inam Ul Haq, and Amna Saeed. "Secure end-to-end SMS communication over GSM networks." In 2015 12th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), pp. 286-292. IEEE, 2015.
Islam, Saad, and Fatima Ajmal. "Developing and implementing encryption algorithm for addressing GSM security issues." In 2009 International Conference on Emerging Technologies, pp. 358-361. IEEE, 2009.
Islam, Saad, Muhammad Ali, Umair Nasir, Fatima Ajmal, Salman Ali, and Adnan Rashdi. "Enhancing software defined radio (SDR) security using variations in gray coded mapping scheme in rectangular QAM." In 2009 2nd International Conference on Computer, C
Islam, Saad, Muhammad Ali, Umair Nasir, Fatima Ajmal, Salman Ali, and Adnan Rashdi. "Effective normal binary ordering in QAM compared with Gray coded scheme for enhanced voice quality in software defined radios." In 2009 2nd International Conference on Co