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Suryadipta Majumdar

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MEng) in Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University


Multiple funded postdoctoral, doctoral, master's, and summer intern (undergrad) positions in IoT/5G/Container/Cloud security. Please see here for details.

Bio:

Suryadipta Majumdar works at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Suryadipta is involved in the Concordia Information Security Research (CISR) Lab and NSERC/Ericsson IRC in SDN/NFV Security Program. Previously, Suryadipta was an assistant professor at the Information Security and Digital Forensics department at SUNY, Albany. During his PhD (with Dr. Lingyu Wang), Suryadipta was an National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholar at Concordia University. He finished his MASc in Information Systems Security from Concordia University (with Dr. Mohammad Mannan) and his BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Research Interests:

Open Positions:

Publications:


2026:

  • "Before You Hand Over the Wheel: Evaluating LLMs for Security Incident Analysis", Sourov Jajodia, Madeena Sultana, Suryadipta Majumdar, Adrian Taylor, and Grant Vandenberghe, arXiv, 2026 [Leaderboard] [Dataset]
  • “PROBE+DETECT+MITIGATE (PDM): Enabling Cloud Tenants to Self-Defend against Microarchitectural Attacks,” Arash Daneshmand, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi, Suryadipta Majumdar, and Yosr Jarraya, 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2026), Baltimore, MD, USA, August 12 - 14, 2026 (Acceptance ratio 166/1181≈14%)
  • "NEXUS: Towards Accurate and Scalable Mapping between Vulnerabilities and Attack Techniques", Ehsan Khodayarseresht, Suryadipta Majumdar, Serguei Mokhov and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026), San Diego, USA, February 24 - February 27, 2026 (Acceptance ratio 265/1481≈17.89%) [Ehsan is selected for NDSS Fellowship 2026!]
  • "Janus: Coordinating Vulnerability Prevention and Exploit-Chain Mitigation for Containerized CI/CD Pipelines", Shafayat Hossain Majumder, Suryadipta Majumdar, Sourov Jajodia, Patrick Jean-Baptiste, 22nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2026)

2025:

  • "ForenThings: An Interactive Framework for Crime Scene Reconstruction in IoT Forensics", Ehsan Khodayarseresht, Sofya Smolyakova, Lianying Zhao, Armin Mansouri, Suryadipta Majumdar, and Mauro Conti, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Accepted, 2025
  • "SHORT: Defending Model Inversion Attack Using an Improved Filter-Based Approach", Ananta Raha, Junaeid Ahmed, Md Shohrab Hossain and Suryadipta Majumdar, 18th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2025), Brest, France, November 25-27, 2025 [An outcome of undergrad research]
  • "CapMan: Detecting and Mitigating Linux Capability Abuses at Runtime to Secure Privileged Containers", Alireza Moghaddas Borhan, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Lingyu Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Suryadipta Majumdar, Proc. the 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025), Toulouse, France, September 22 - 26, 2025, Accepted
  • "Identifying and Addressing User-level Security Concerns in Smart Homes Using "Smaller" LLMs", Hafijul Hoque Chowdhury, Riad Ahmed Anonto, Sourov Jajodia, Suryadipta Majumdar, Md. Shohrab Hossain, 22nd International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2025), Fredericton, Canada, August 26-28, Accepted, 2025 (Acceptance ratio 26%) [An outcome of undergrad research]
  • "Cross-Level Security Verification for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)", Alaa Oqaily, Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Lingyu Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Suryadipta Majumdar, Makan Pourzandi, Mourad Debbabi, Sudershan Lakshmanan, Mengyuan Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Accepted, 2025

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Current Students:

Former Students:

  • A S M Asadujjaman (PhD) [First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of São Paulo (Brazil)]
  • Shafayat Hossain Majumder (MASc) [First job: Security Engineer, Canonical]
  • Sourov Jajodia (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Madeena Sultana (DRDC)
  • Mahdieh Ghorbanian (MASc)
  • Hinddeep Purohit (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Yosr Jarraya
  • Sofya Smolyakova (MASc) [First job: Security Operations Engineer, Canonical]
  • Jia Wei Yao (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
  • Sima Bagheri (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang [First job: Cyber Security Analyst, C&R Software]
  • Shiva Sunar (MASc) [First job: System Administrator, IO Solutions Inc.]
  • Mahmood Gholipour (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang [First job: System Software Engineer, Polaris motion]
  • Md. Wasiuddin Pathan Shuvo (MASc) [First job: Director, Avid Tech Solution Ltd. (USA)]
  • Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang [Current position: PhD student, Concordia University]
  • Andy Dolan (MS in Computer Science at CSU) - co-advised with Dr. Indrakshi Ray [First job: Security Engineer, CableLabs (USA)]
  • Jivan Ramjisingh (BSc in Digital Forensics)
  • Kayla Ibrahim (BSc in Digital Forensics)
  • Jimmy Kong (BSc in Informatics)

Professional Activities:

Selected Grants and Awards:

Teaching:

  • INSE 6540: Internet of Things Security @ Concordia (Winter 2026, Summer 2024)
  • INSE 6961: Graduate Seminar in Information and Systems Engineering @ Concordia (Winter 2026)
  • INSE 6630: Recent Developments in Information Systems Security @ Concordia (Summer 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2021)
  • SOEN 321: Information Systems Security @ Concordia (Winter 2023, Winter 2022)
  • INSE 6130: Operating Systems Security @ Concordia (Winter 2026, Fall 2024, Winter 2024, Winter 2023, Winter 2022, Winter 2021)
  • BFOR 205: Introduction to Database Systems @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2019)
  • BFOR 418: Assembly Language and Malware Reverse Engineering @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2019, Fall 2018)
  • BFOR 100: Introduction to Information Systems @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
  • Guest Lectures / POD / Marker @ Concordia University, Canada
    • INSE 6620 (Summer'18, Summer'17, Summer'16), INSE 6140 (Winter'18, Winter'17, Winter'16), INSE 6130 (Fall'17, Fall'16, Winter'16, Fall'15), INSE 6120 (Fall'13)

Contact:


     1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, S-EV 003.115
     Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8
     Phone: 514-848-2424 ext 8580
     Email: suryadipta.majumdar (at) concordia.ca