Our group consists of men and women with diverse backgrounds from the following eleven countries: Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand and the USA.
Co-supervised with Prof. A.B. Siddique
Graduated Summer 2023
Won the best poster award at 2023 WiCyS Conference
First appointment: Assistant Professor of cyber security, Florida Polytechnic University
Co-supervised with Prof. Sherali Zeadally
Graduated Spring 2023
First appointment: Assistant Professor, Murray State University
Graduated Spring 2022
The College of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D student award!!!
First appointment: Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Co-supervised with Prof. Tingting Yu
Graduated Spring 2022
Thesis: "An Automated Framework to Debug System-Level Concurrency Failures"
Currently: Assistant Professor at UMBC Information Systems Department
Graduated Summer 2020
Dean's award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Thesis: "Algorithms for Achieving Fault-tolerance and Ensuring Security in Cloud Computing Systems"
Currently: Assistant Professor at UMBC Information Systems Department
Graduated Fall 2016
Thesis: "Routing and Security in Mobile Ad hoc Networks"
First appointment: Chair, Department of Networking, University of Kirkuk
Co-supervised with Prof. Mukesh Singhal
Graduated Summer 2016
Thesis: "New Secure Solutions for Privacy and Access Control in Health Information Exchange"
First appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Graduated Summer 2016
Recipient of Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship.
First appointment: Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
Graduated Fall 2013
Thesis: "Algorithms for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems and Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
Recipient of Dissertation year Fellowship.
First appointment: Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems Inc.
Graduated Fall 2011
Thesis: "Checkpointing and Recovery in Distributed and Database Systems"
First appointment: Data Warehouse Developer/Architect, Marshfield Clinic
Graduated Spring 2011
Recipient of Dissertation year and Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship.
Thesis: "Communication-Induced Checkpointing and Recovery Protocols for Distributed Systems"
First Appointment: Lecturer, University of Kentucky
Graduated Spring 2009
Thesis: "A Protocol Suite for Wireless Personal Area Networks"
First appointment: VP, E-commerce. President at Persson Consulting LLC.
Graduated Fall 2006
Recipient of Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship.
Thesis: "Fault-Tolerant Distributed Channel Allocation Algorithms for Cellular Networks"
First appointment: Assistant Professor, SUNY Fredonia
Thesis: "A Reliability-based Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks"
Software Developer and Integrator at USAA
US Department of Defense
Chief Operating officer, Naprogenix Inc.
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering
Ph.D in Physics
Professor, Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska
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