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Suleman Ahmad Suleman Ahmad
Research Engineer

Suleman is a Research Engineer working at the intersection of product engineering and security research. His work and academic experience has span the following areas of interest: Security and Privacy, Internet Measurement, and Applied Machine Learning — particularly applications in Cybersecurity, and Distributed Systems.

Prior to joining Cloudflare, he completed his Masters program in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he focused on detecting and analyzing real-world authentication attacks, and engineering large-scale measurement systems.

Research Areas

Internet Measurement, Network Privacy, Distributed Systems, Cryptography Engineering

Projects

Publications

2024Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-Scale

ACM SIGCOMM 2024 Conference, Sydney NSW Australia, August 4-8, 2024.
James Larisch, Tim Alberdingk Thijm, Suleman Ahmad, Peter Wu, Tom Arnfeld, Marwan Fayed

2022Gossamer: Securely Measuring Password-based Logins

31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22), Boston, MA. 2022.
Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Mazharul Islam, Suleman Ahmad, Michael Swift, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee

2022Respect the ORIGIN! A Best-case Evaluation of Connection Coalescing

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022, October 25-27, France. 2022.
Sudheesh Singanamalla, Talha Paracha, Suleman Ahmad, Jonathan Hoyland, Luke Valenta, Yevgen Safronov, Peter Wu, Andrew Galloni, Kurtis Heimerl, Nick Sullivan, Christopher A. Wood, Marwan Fayed