Taqi Raza

Assistant Professor

UMass Amherst ECE

Knowles 309H | (413) 545-0235

Khwarizmi | scholar

I'm an Assistant Professor of ECE department at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior, I was an Assistant Professor at the MIS department of University of Arizona. I have received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before my Ph.D., I was a research engineer at LG Electronics, Seoul (Korea) and ETRI, Daejon (Korea). I did my master in Information and Communication Engineering from Ajou University, Korea; and hold a Bachelor in Information Technology from NUST, Pakistan.

Research and Teaching

I direct the UMass Khwarizmi Lab. My research work brings innovation in building secure and reliable networked systems. It identifies fundamental open questions and explores them from various angles. My research contributes to better understanding of the state-of-the-art network systems by challenging their operational efficacy, and identifying unexplored aspects at their heterogeneity. It provides simple, innovative, and secure solutions from system designs to their operations through verification and policy guidelines.

I teach ECE371 Introduction to Security Engineering (Fall 2023--), ECE690STA Fundamentals of Cloud Computing (Spring 2024--), and MIS566 Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking (2020–2023).

Select Publications

In Wallet We Trust: Bypassing the Digital Wallets Payment Security for Free Shopping

Raja Hasnain Anwar, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Muhammad Taqi Raza
USENIX Security Symposium ("Security"), August 2024

Redefining the Driver's Attention Gauge in Semi-Autonomous Vehicles

Raja Hasnain Anwar, Fatima Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Alon Efrat,
and Muhammad Taqi Raza
ACM Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems ("MSWIM"), October 2023

Enabling Emerging Edge Applications through a 5G Control Plane Intervention

Mukhtiar Ahmad, Syed Muhammad Nawazish Ali, Muhammad Taimoor Tariq,
Muhammad Basit Iqbal Awan, Muhammad Taqi Raza, and Zafar Ayyub Qazi
ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies ("CoNEXT"), December 2022