He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of Arizona (UA) in 2016. His dissertation, Obfuscation of Transmission Fingerprints for Secure Wireless Communications, was a blend of theoretical and experimental research in physical layer security. After a short-term affiliation with UA as a Senior Research Specialist and a brief experience as a postdoctoral associate at Virginia Tech, he joined RIT in Spring 2018. Hanif’s areas of security research span wireless networks, wireless communications, IoT, and vehicle-to-everything communications. He also holds the B.Sc. degree in information technology engineering from Sharif University of Technology and the M.Sc. degree in computer networks from AmirKabir University of Technology, Iran.