About me
Securing critical infrastructures through the integration of formal methods, machine learning, and mathematical optimization against emerging cyber-physical system threats.
I am an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at Northern Illinois University (NIU). I hold a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida International University (FIU), USA, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh.
I began my academic career as a Lecturer in the CSE Department at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh, before pursuing my doctoral studies at FIU's Analytics for Cyber Defense (ACD) Lab, where I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant and received the Dissertation Year Fellowship Award. During my Ph.D., I contributed to and completed two NSF-funded and one DOE-funded projects, published 13 peer-reviewed papers and one book chapter, and successfully patented a research tool.
My research integrates formal methods, machine learning, and mathematical optimization to design resilient defenses for critical infrastructures against evolving cyber-physical system (CPS) threats. I am particularly interested in bridging theoretical security guarantees with practical, deployable solutions for industrial control systems and IoT environments.
In 2023, I received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). I have also served as Publication Chair for the International Workshop on AI and Industrial IoT Security (AIOTS 2023) and as a Technical Program Committee Member at ICMLA 2025. More details are available in the publications and projects sections. For inquiries or collaborations, feel free to get in touch.