Cybersecurity Practitioner / Junior Researcher
About Me
Hi there, I’m Raihan! A PhD student at Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science under advisement of Dr. Peng Gao.
I’m also currently conducting research as a Graduate Researcher for Virginia Tech Security and Intelligence Laboratory, working on ML-assisted threat intelligence analysis.
For CS 1114 students, please join my office hours at McBryde Hall 224 on Wednesdays and Derring Hall 1014 on Thursdays. Kindly check the MyDigitalHand (MDH) platform for any updates or schedule changes. For assistance outside of office hours, please reach out to me via email.
- AI/ML for Offensive & Defensive Security
- Low-Level & System/Network Security
- Vunerability Discovery and Intelligence
Computer Science (PhD)
Virginia Tech
Computer Science (BCs / S.Kom.)
Universitas Ary Ginanjar
My research interests are to discover and understand critical security issues, and then to design and develop innovative solutions to address these issues.
To be precise, my research areas and interests:
- NLP/ML-assisted Anomaly Detection
- Vulnerability Discovery
- Firmware Security & Reverse Engineering
- Side-channel Attacks on Wireless Networks
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- IPS/IDS
- Privacy Compliance and Enforcement (Formal Methods)
- Programmable Network Security
I’m always excited to collaborate with like-minded individuals and organizations to solve complex challenges and drive innovation. Please reach me at raihansultanpb@gmail.com for a research collaboration!
- Service 21 Aug, 2026: Raihan will serve as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 1114 - Introduction to Software Design Course.
- Service 10 Feb, 2026: Raihan has been accepted as a Student Volunteer for EACL 2026 (The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and will serve on-site in Rabat, Morocco.
- Award 4 Feb, 2026: Raihan has been awarded financial support from the Virginia Tech Computer Science Department and will serve as a full-time Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant during his doctoral studies.
- News Feb 3, 2026: Raihan has been admitted to Direct PhD program at Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science! Starting Fall 2026.
- Research Jan 4, 2026: Our research, NL2Logic, has been accepted to the Findings of EACL ‘26! It will be presented at the 19th EACL conference this March in Rabat, Morocco.
- News Dec 13, 2025: I’ll be replace teaching for Session #16, KKBD401 Data Mining Course.
- News Nov 7, 2025: Raihan will start filling lecture roles for freshmen members, in addition to his research project work
- News Oct 5, 2025: Started a Teaching Assistant position for KKAI300 – Artificial Intelligence for the Fall 2025 semester.
- Research May 21, 2025: Started conduct research for VT Security Intelligence Laboratory.
- Research May 13, 2025: Started conduct research for ESQ Group Corporation, as their ML Researcher, working on LLM.
- News Apr 17, 2025: Full-time Research Assistant at AIRDU Research Group.
- News Mar 13, 2025: Brainstorming and Project Initation with AIRDU Research Group.
- Research Jan 3, 2025: We proposed DepPredict, a model to predict and identifies the likelihood of depression for students.
- Award Dec 2, 2024: Raihan received Garuda ACE 2.0 Research Fellowship Award by MoECRT of Indonesia.
