Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., explores research on cloud security, the Internet of Things, digital forensics, mobile malware security, secure provenance, biomedical device security, social network security, and database security. He is the founder of the Secure and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab) at UAB. He is also a member of the UAB Center for Cyber Security and a member of the NIST Working group on Cloud Forensics.

Dr. Hasan’s research is supported by the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, Facebook Inc., Google Inc., and Amazon Inc. He is a 2014 awardee of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his work on cloud security. Dr. Hasan is also a recipient of the Google RISE Award (2013), Information Society Innovation Fund Award (2013), Deutsche-Welle Best of Blogs and Online Innovation award for his BanglaBraille project (2014), Google Faculty Research Award (2011), NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship (2009), and the Chancellor Award and Gold Medal from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2003).

He is a founding member of Wikimedia Bangladesh chapter and a long term administrator of Bangla and English Wikipedias. He also founded Shikkhok.com, an award-winning online education platform for advancing STEM education in rural areas of India and Bangladesh that has won the 2013 Google RISE Award and 2013 Information Society Innovation Fund Award.