CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 2023
- Thesis: A general framework of estimating information leakage for privacy and forensics problems with imperfect statistical information
- Advisors: Dr. Yong Guan and Dr. George Amariucai
- Focus Area: Secure and Reliable Computing
- B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BUET, 2015
- Focus Area: Wireless Communication and Signal Processing
- Advisor: Dr. Md. Saifur Rahman
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Jan 2024 – Present)
- Statistical Data Science Intern, SoilSerdem Inc, Ames, IA (Aug 2023 – Dec 2023)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University (2023)
- Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University (2017 – 2023)
- Lecturer, Presidency University, Dhaka (2016)
Courses Taught
- Database and Database Security – Fall 2024
- Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence – Spring 2024, Spring 2025
- Biometrics and Cryptography – Spring 2025
Service and Leadership
Technical Program Committee Chair
IEEE DISTILL 2025: Workshop on Distributed, Secure, and Trustworthy Intelligence with LLMsReviewer
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
PPAI-25: The 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence
16th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime
Mentorship
Graduate Students
- Current
- Swati Kar (PhD)
- Ammar Tojaga (MS)
- Graduated
- Caleb Henderson (MS) – Benchmarking Variational Autoencoders for Single-Cell RNA-Seq on PBMC Data (Spring 2025)
- Jordan Selph (MS) – The Science of Soccer: Predicting Premier League Outcomes Using Historical Data (Fall 2024)
- Milan Artis (MS) – A Comparative Study of the Performance of Machine Learning Methods and Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection (Summer 2024)
Undergraduate Students
Current
Graduated
- Austin Nicolas (REU) – PipelineEDU: Creating High-Quality Synthetic Data for Educational Research and Applications (Summer 2024)