Prof. Dr. Md. Sadek Ferdous


Prof. Dr. Md. Sadek Ferdous
Department of CSE, SUST
Email: sadek-cse[at]sust.edu

Dr. Md Sadek Ferdous is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet Bangladesh. He is leading the first-ever blockchain-focused security research laboratory, called SUBSEL (Shahjalal University Blockchain and SEcurity Laboratory), in Bangladesh at SUST. He is also affiliated as a Research Associate at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, UK. He is the principal author of the national blockchain strategy document. A policy document outlining the strategies to transform Bangladesh in a blockchain-enabled nation.

Before joining SUST Sadek worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Finance and Technology of the Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, UK, working in a blockchain project in collaboration with Citi Group. During his tenure at Imperial, he had the opportunity to work at the UK Cabinet Office as their first Technology Fellow in a joint-project involving the UK Cabinet Office, UK Ministry of Justice and UK Police in which he explored how the blockchain technology could be leveraged for securing digital evidences. The prototype he designed and developed is in the process of real-life deployment.

He worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton in a Horizon 2020 cloud security project in which he investigated how the blockchain technology could be exploited to increase the security in a cloud federation and was part of the team which coined a new blockchain-based service model called FaaS (Federation-as-a-Service).

He completed his PhD, under SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) fellowship, from the University of Glasgow on Identity Management.

His current research interests include blockchain, security, privacy, identity management and trust. He has co-authored more than 60 research papers published in top journals, conferences and workshops.