Faculty/Staff

Rouzbeh Behnia

Rouzbeh Behnia heashot

Assistant Professor
behnia@usf.edu 
Campus: Sarasota-Manatee
Room: C266
Phone: 941-359-4605

Rouzbeh is an assistant professor in the School of Information Systems and Management (SISM) at ±«Óãtv. 

His research spans the areas of cybersecurity, blockchain, and applied cryptography. He has worked on developing highly efficient authentication schemes for low-end embedded IoT devices. His research has also focused on solutions to address the data privacy versus utilization dilemma. In the realm of post-quantum security, he has developed several efficient cryptographic schemes with post-quantum security. His work has resulted in a number of patents and has been published in top CS venues such as ACM CCS, IEEE TDSC, ACM AsiaCCS, ACSAC, etc. 

Rouzbeh has earned a PhD in Computer Science from the ±«Óãtv advised by Attila Yavuz. 

Teaching

  • ISM 4323 Information Security and IT Risk Management
  • ISM4263/6930 Cloud Solution Architectures
  • ISM 7911 MIS Research Seminar II

Research

  • Behnia, R., & Yavuz, A. A. (2021). Towards Practical Post-quantum Signatures for Resource-Limited Internet of Things. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (pp. 119-130). ACM.
  • Behnia, R., Postlethwaite, E. W., Ozmen, M. O., & Yavuz, A. A. (2021). Lattice-Based Proof-of-Work for Post-Quantum Blockchains. In Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT2021) (pp. 310-318). Springer, Cham.
  • Behnia, R., Ozmen, M. O., & Yavuz, A. A. (2018). Lattice-based public key searchable encryption from experimental perspectives. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 17(6), 1269-1282. IEEE.
  • Behnia, R., Ozmen, M. O., Yavuz, A. A., & Rosulek, M. (2018). Tachyon: Fast signatures from compact knapsack. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) (pp. 1855-1867). ACM.

Service

  • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC)
  • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS)
  • Reviewer - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Reviewer - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)

Selected Patents

  • Rouzbeh Behnia, Muslum Ozmen and Attila A. Yavuz, Efficient Identity-based and Certificateless Cryptosystems, ±«Óãtv- 19A051, Serial No: 16/442,467, Patent No: 10,673,625, File Date: 06/16/2019, Issue Date: 06/02/2020, Status: Issued.
  • Attila A .Yavuz, MuslumO.Ozmen and Rouzbeh Behnia,"Energy-Aware Digitial Signatures",±«Óãtv- 19A001,Serial No: 16/273,828, Patent No: 10,547,455, File Date: 02/12/2019, Issue Date: 01/28/2020, Status: Issued.