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Imranur Rahman

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Bio

Imranur Rahman started his PhD in 2022 and joined the WSPR lab in 2023. He is being advised by Dr. Laurie Williams and currently focusing on software supply chain security. Before joining NCSU, Imranur received his B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2018 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Before starting his PhD, he worked at Samsung Research for 3.5 years where he developed Chromium-based mobile browser for Samsung smartphones.

Publications

  • Imranur Rahman, Jill Marley, William Enck, and Laurie Williams, Which Is Better For Reducing Outdated And Vulnerable Dependencies: Pinning Or Floating?, in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Nov. 2025.
  • Md Rayhanur Rahman, Imranur Rahman, and Laurie Williams, If you cannot Measure it, you cannot Secure it. A Case Study on Metrics for Informed Choice of Security Controls, Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 92, Jul. 2025.
  • Laurie Williams, Giacomo Benedetti, Sivana Hamer, Ranindya Paramitha, Imranur Rahman, Mahzabin Tamanna, Greg Tystahl, Nusrat Zahan, Patrick Morrison, Yasemin Acar, Michel Cukier, Christian Kästner, Alexandros Kapravelos, Dominik Wermke, and William Enck, Research Directions in Software Supply Chain Security, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), pp. 1–38, May 2025.
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  • Md Rayhanur Rahman, Brandon Wroblewski, Mahzabin Tamanna, Imranur Rahman, Andrew Anufryienak, and Laurie Williams, Towards a Taxonomy of Challenges in Security Control Implementation, in Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2024, pp. 61–75.