Research Group

Current Students

Swati Kar

Swati Kar · Ph.D. Student (2025 – )

Swati Kar is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research focuses on trustworthy and interpretable artificial intelligence. She earned her bachelor's degree from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh) and her M.Sc. from Clarkson University (USA). In her free time, she enjoys traveling and fishing.


Graduated Students

Ammar Tojaga  ·  M.S. (Summer 2025)

Project Title: “Design and Implementation of a Prompt Injection Competition Framework.”

Wilson Garrett  ·  M.S. (Summer 2025)

Project Title: “Zero-Shot ID Document Validation: Combining EAST and TrOCR for Date Field Analysis.”

Caleb Henderson  ·  M.S. (Spring 2025)

Project Title: “Benchmarking Variational Autoencoders for Single-Cell RNA-Seq on PBMC Data.”

Jordan Selph  ·  M.S. (Fall 2024)

Project Title: “The Science of Soccer: Predicting Premier League Outcomes Using Historical Data.”

Milan Artis  ·  M.S. (Summer 2024)

Thesis: “A Comparative Study of the Performance of Machine Learning Methods and Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection.”


Selected Publications

Here are a few recent publications highlighting my current research directions.

Breaking the Shield: Vulnerabilities in Content Moderation for Multimodal Language Models
Anindya Bijoy Das, Shahnewaz Karim Sakib
Hallucinations and Key Information Extraction in Medical Texts: A Comprehensive Assessment of Open-Source Large Language Models
Anindya Bijoy Das, Shibbir Ahmed, Shahnewaz Karim Sakib
Battling Misinformation: An Empirical Study on Adversarial Factuality in Open-Source Large Language Models
Shahnewaz Karim Sakib, Anindya Bijoy Das, and Shibbir Ahmed
Challenging Fairness: A Comprehensive Exploration of Bias in LLM-Based Recommendations
Shahnewaz Karim Sakib, Anindya Bijoy Das
Information Leakage Measures for Imperfect Statistical Information: Application to Non-Bayesian Framework
Shahnewaz Karim Sakib, George T. Amariucai, Yong Guan

For the complete list, please visit my Google Scholar profile.