- 2007 Smart Communities and Innovation Building (SCIB)
- Phone (205) 348-1717
- Fax (205) 348-6959
Dr. Mizan Rahman
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 2007 Smart Communities and Innovation Building (SCIB)
- phone (205) 348-1717
- fax (205) 348-6959
Research Areas
Education
- Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Civil Engineering, B.S., 2008
- Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Civil Engineering, M.S., 2013
- Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Civil Engineering, Ph.D., 2018
Mizanur Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama (UA), Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His interdisciplinary research focuses on cybersecurity, assured PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing) systems, Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and cyber-physical systems/digital twin technologies. Since 2020, Dr. Rahman has secured over $3 million in funding as a principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI, with total project funding exceeding $30 million across all projects. He is also a founding member of Resilient Timing Systems, LLC (Entity ID: 001-092-469), a company whose technology is based on a patented Node-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). He received NSF CRII and NSF CAREER Awards in 2021 and 2024, respectively.
Previously, he served as an Assistant Director of the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2), a U.S. Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Center. He was also a recipient of the 2024 class of Hewson Engineering Faculty Fellows Award at UA. To date, Dr. Rahman has published 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, 50 full manuscript peer-reviewed conference papers/presentations, 10 book chapters, and served as guest editor for the 2024 ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems’ special issue on transportation cybersecurity. His research team has showcased our research at various national and international conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He has been featured in outlets like UA News and Transportation Research Board News and has made a guest appearance on a podcast with Cybercrime Magazine.
Affiliated Areas
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Selected Publications
- Al Mamun, A., Abrar, A., Rahman, M., Salek, M. S., & Chowdhury, M. Post-quantum cryptography for intelligent transportation systems: An implementation-focused review,” Vehicular Communications, (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2026.101028
- Dasgupta, S., Ahmad, M. U., Irfan, M. S., and Rahman, M. S., “Resilient urban vehicle navigation in GNSS-denied environments via tightly integrated inertial propagation, deep motion inference, GIS route constraints, and opportunistic visual landmark corrections,” In the Proceedings of 39th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2026), 2026 (accepted).
- Ahmad, M.U., Rahman, M., Sevim, A., Bodoh, D., Khan, S., Zhao, L., Huynh, N. and Ozguven, E.E., “Historical Prediction Attention Mechanism based Trajectory Forecasting for Proactive Work Zone Safety in a Digital Twin Environment,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, (2026). https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2026.3669235
- Salek, M.S., Chowdhury, M., Munir, M.B., Cai, Y., Hasan, M.I., Tine, J.M., Khan, L. and Rahman, M., 2025. “A large language model-supported threat modeling framework for transportation cyber-physical systems,” IEEE Access, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3603580
- Shakib, K.H., Rahman, M., Islam, M. and Chowdhury, M., “Impersonation attack using quantum shor’s algorithm against blockchain-based vehicular ad-hoc network,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26(5), pp.6530-6544, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2025.3534656
Awards and Honors
- NSF CAREER Award, 2024
- IEEE George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award, 2020
- U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014
- U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Master’s Fellowship, 2012-2013
Dr. Rahman's Impact
Innovative UA Research Recognized with NSF CAREER Awards
Four professors at The University of Alabama received one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honors for early-career faculty.
UA to Bolster Nation’s Workforce in Precision Timing
A one-of-a-kind graduate program at The University of Alabama will pave the way for highly skilled professionals to enter the ranks of the critical field of precision timing. With nearly $3 million in support from the National Science Foundation, UA is offering 24 graduate school fellowships. The fellowships pay tuition and a stipend for students to concentrate in precision timing, the field of hyper-hyper accurate timekeeping traditionally based on atomic clocks.
Low-cost Solution Viable for Self-Driving Cars to Spot Hacked GPS
Transportation researchers at The University of Alabama developed a promising, inexpensive system to overcome one challenge of self-driving vehicle technology: GPS hacking that can send a self-driving vehicle to the...