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
2024PreSight: A Vision for an Instantaneous Web
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems, November 4–6, 2024, Austin, TX, USA
Isaac Khor,
Suleman Ahmad,
Avani Wildani
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
Blog posts
- How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification
- Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
- Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
- Cloudflare now uses post-quantum cryptography to talk to your origin server
- Connection coalescing with ORIGIN Frames: fewer DNS queries, fewer connections
- Automatic (secure) transmission: taking the pain out of origin connection security
- Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
- Introducing SSL/TLS Recommender