Selected Publications

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Journals


  1. Movee: Video Liveness Verification for Mobile Devices using Built-in Motion Sensors.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Umut Topkara, Bogdan Carbunar.
    Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2015.

  2. Secure Management of Low Power Fitness Trackers.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Umut Topkara, Bogdan Carbunar.
    Accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2015.

  3. To Catch a Fake: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Ratings and Venues.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Jaime Ballesteros, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
    Accepted in Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM), Wiley, 2015.

  4. ProfilR: Toward Preserving Privacy and Functionality in Geosocial Networks.
    Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Jaime Ballesteros, Naphtali Rishe, Thanos Vasilakos.
    In the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS), 2013.

  5. Towards Safe Cities: A Mobile and Social Networking Approach.
    Jaime Ballesteros, Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Naphtali Rishe, S.S. Iyengar.
    In the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS).

  6. A Survey of Privacy and Security Attacks in GeoSocial Networks.
    Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Nikki Pissinou, A. V. Vasilakos.
    In the IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 11, 2013.

  7. Search Engines going beyond Keyword Search: A Survey.
    Mahmudur Rahman.
    International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), Volume 25, No 17, 2013.

Conferences/Workshops


  1. Liveness Verifications for Citizen Journalism Videos.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Umut Topkara, Bogdan Carbunar.
    In proceedings of 8th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), NY City, June, 2015.

  2. SensCrypt: A Secure Protocol for Managing Low Power Fitness Trackers.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Umut Topkara, Bogdan Carbunar.
    In proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'14), North Carolina, Oct 2014.

  3. Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Jaime Ballesteros, George Burri, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
    In proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Philadelphia, April 2014.

  4. Seeing is Not Believing: Visual Verifications through Liveness Analysis using Mobile Devices.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Umut Topkara, Bogdan Carbunar.
    In proceedings of the 29th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'13), New Orleans, Dec 2013.

  5. Private Location Centric Profiles for GeoSocial Networks.
    Bogdan Carbunar, Mahmudur Rahman, Jaime Ballesteros, Naphtali Rishe.
    In proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, California, Nov 2013.

  6. Fit and Vulnerable: Attacks and Defenses for a Health Monitoring Device.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Madhusudan Banik.
    The 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs), held in conjunction with PETS, Bloomington, July 2013.

  7. Toward Safe Cities through Participatory Sensing.
    Jaime Ballesteros, Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Naphtali Rishe.
    In proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'12), Florida, Oct 2012.

  8. Yelp Events: Making Bricks Without Clay?.
    Jaime Ballesteros, Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Naphtali Rishe.
    In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer Computing and Social Networking (HotPOST'13), Philadelphia, July 2013.

Posters/Demos


  1. Towards Detecting Yelp Review campaigns.
    Jaime Ballesteros, Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Naphtali Rishe.
    34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), San Francisco, May 2013.

  2. Fit and Vulnerable: Attacks and Defenses for a Health Monitoring Device.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Madhusudan Banik.
    34th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), San Francisco, May 2013.

  3. Toward Preserving Privacy and Functionality in Geosocial Networks.
    Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Jaime Ballesteros, Naphtali Rishe, Thanos Vasilakos.
    In proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'13), Miami, Oct 2013.

  4. The Usability of a Mobile Device Liveness Analysis Application.
    Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Umut Topkara, Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar.
    18th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, February 2014.