Events, awards, talks & publications
Timeline
2026
- Education Apr 2026
Passed Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona.
- Service Apr 2026
Sub-reviewer — ICLR 2026
- Publication Jan 2026
PathwayLM: Multihop Mechanistic Pathways for Biomedical Language Model Reasoning
ACL (Under Review) · (under review)
2025
- Service Dec 2025
Reviewer — NeurIPS 2025
- Publication Jan 2025
Scientific Reports, Nature — Q1, IF 3.9
2024
- Talk Nov 2024
Oral presentation — EMNLP 2024, Miami
Impeding LLM-assisted Cheating via Adversarial Perturbation — Oral; nominated for Best Paper.
- Service Jun 2024
Reviewer — EMNLP 2024
- Service May 2024
Sub-reviewer — IEEE S&P 2024
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- Publication Jan 2024
Impeding LLM-assisted Cheating in Introductory Programming Assignments via Adversarial Perturbation
EMNLP 2024, Miami · Oral · Best Paper Nominee
- Publication Jan 2024
IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems — Q1, IF 7.9
2023
- Service Aug 2023
Sub-reviewer — PoPETs 2022 & USENIX Security 2023
- Service Jul 2023
Artifact reviewer — USENIX Artifact Evaluation
USENIX 2022 and 2023.
- Service Feb 2023
Sub-reviewer — NDSS 2022 & 2023
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
- Publication Jan 2023
Heliyon, Elsevier — Q1, IF 4.0
- Publication Jan 2023
Let's Vibrate with Vibration: Augmenting Structural Engineering with Low-Cost Vibration Sensing
EAI MobiQuitous
2022
- Publication Jan 2022
LC-Net: Localized Counting Network for Extremely Dense Crowds
Applied Soft Computing (ASOC), Elsevier — Q1, IF 8.7
- Publication Jan 2022
Long-Range Low-Cost Networking for Real-Time Monitoring of Rail Tracks in Developing Countries
ACM ICTD
- Publication Jan 2022
Escalating Post-Disaster Rescue Missions Through ad-hoc Victim Localization Exploiting Wi-Fi Network
Heliyon, Elsevier — Q1, IF 4.0
2021
- Education Aug 2021
Began Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Arizona
Advisor: Dr. Mihai Surdeanu.
- Award Aug 2021
Graduate College Fellowship
The University of Arizona — Fall 2021; Spring 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
- Education Aug 2021
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, BUET
Thesis: Devising A Selective Sensor Deployment Strategy Leveraging NSGA-II for Detecting Derailments in the Railway System of Bangladesh.
- Publication Jan 2021
DhakaNet: Unstructured Vehicle Detection using Limited Computational Resources
IEEE ICDM
- Publication Jan 2021
Devising a Dust and Noise Pollution Monitoring System for Textile Industry
ACM NSysS
- Publication Jan 2021
IEEE ACCESS — Q1, IF 3.9
- Publication Jan 2021
Strategizing Secured Image Storing And Efficient Image Retrieval through a New Cloud Framework
JNCA, Elsevier — Q1, IF 8.7
- Publication Jan 2021
An Economical Long-Range Sensing System for Real-Time Monitoring of Rail Tracks
ACM NSysS (Poster) · 1st Runner-up
2020
- Award Jul 2020
5th Position — Nation-wide AI-Based Dhaka Traffic Detection Challenge
2020.
- Publication Jan 2020
Enhancing Fidelity of Quantum Cryptography using Maximally Entangled Qubits
IEEE GLOBECOM
- Publication Jan 2020
SIMPAT, Elsevier — Q1, IF 4.2
2019
- Publication Jan 2019
A Low-cost Urban Search and Rescue Robot for Developing Countries
IEEE RAAICON
- Award Jan 2019
ICT Fellowship
ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Bangladesh — 2019–2021.
2018
- Education Nov 2018
Began M.Sc. & Research Assistantship, BUET NeC Lab
PI: Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam.
- Education Oct 2018
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, BUET
Thesis: Enhancing Fidelity of Quantum Cryptography using Maximally Entangled Qubits.
2017
- Award Jul 2017
1st Runner-up — Hand-written Digit Recognition
National Robotech Festival, 2017.
2014
- Award Sep 2014
BUET Technical Scholarship
2014–2018, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.