Md Abdullah Al Mamun
Graduate Research Assistant, University of California RIverside, USA
Graduate Research Assistant, University of California RIverside, USA
Hi, I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) under the supervision of Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. My research interests are in LLM Safety/Alignment, Trustworthy AI, Collaborative AI. Specifically, focusing on privacy and security issues within LLM, ML and Federated Learning systems, such as memorization by the overparametrized model, addressing privacy attacks such as data leaks, exploring security threats like backdoor attacks, prompt injection attacks, and bypassing guardrails in LLMs.
My goal is to build a helpful, harmless and honest (HHH) AI Agent through my research experiences, where I can preserve the Privacy and Security of users' data to make a meaningful contribution towards society with my experience. My research works require finding the vulnerabilities on an well-established environment and come up with an efficient defense against the attack. I literally love that! Before jumping to code implementation, I always prefer to think critically outside of the box, reason logically, learn and compare the pros and cons. I'm a self-motivated and hardworking person.
Previously I served as a faculty member at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT), Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before that, I worked for Linkstaff Co., Ltd at Tokyo, Japan as a Foreign Software Engineer. I accomplished my B.Sc. in computer science and engineering on April, 2019 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Prof. Md. Shohrab Hossain was my supervisor for B.Sc. thesis. My undergraduate research work covers Blockchain and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with a number of publications.
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February 15, 2025 - Submitted our paper "Attention Eclipse: Manipulating Attention to Bypass LLM Safety-Alignment" on Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025!
January 6, 2025 - I’m starting a new position as an Associate Instructor at the CSE department of the University of California, Riverside in C++ for Programmers (CS009C) course!
November 15, 2024 - We placed 3rd (Out of 14 teams) in eBay 2024 Machine Learning Competition. Team Name: Bing NeuraNest Returns
October 30, 2024 - I had the privilege of serving on the Program Committee for the Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals: NAACL-HLT, ACL, EMNLP 2025.
September 23, 2024 - I will be working as a Teaching Assistant at UCR in CSE department in Data Analytics and Exploration (CS252A) graduate course
August 11, 2024 - We will be giving a 3-hour tutorial at "ACL 2024" in Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday, August 11th. (Slides)
October 16, 2023 - Checkout Our paper Survey of Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models Revealed by Adversarial Attack
October 3,2023 - our proposal on "vulnerabilities of LLMs to adversarial attack " has been accepted by ACL 2024 tutorial!! This is the top conference in natural language processing and definitely a huge recognition of our work in this field. Our tutorial will be in the conference proceedings as well!
August 2, 2023 - Checkout Our ACL 2024 Tutorial: Vulnerabilities of Large Language Models to Adversarial Attacks
July 17, 2023 - Checkout my very first paper in my PhD life DeepMem: ML Models as storage channels and their (mis-)applications available in Arxiv.
June 29,2023 - Advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy
April 01, 2023 - Completed all of my Ph.D. coursework with perfect CGPA 4.00/4.00
July 01, 2022 - Started my journey as a Graduate Research Assistant at UC Riverside
September 23, 2021 - Started my journey as a PhD fellow in CS at UC Riverside
September 6, 2021 - Moved to Riverside, California, USA
May 30, 2021 - Submitted the second paper of my students of BUBT to 10th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) - 2021 , Kitakyushu, Japan under my supervision.
April 27, 2021 - our research work "A Novel Approach to Blockchain-based Digital Identity System" has been accepted at the 2021 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet'21), Marrakesh, Morocco.
April 6, 2021 - Received my offer of Ph.D. program in computer science at University of Alabama at Birmingham
March 28, 2021 - Submitted the very first paper of my students of BUBT to International Conference on Science & Contemporary Technologies(ICSCT - 2021) under my supervision.
March 25, 2021 - I have been invited to be a speaker at the segment "Business Workshop" of the event Skill Booster presents Bizmania which is an online business event being hosted by Skill Booster - Protyush
February 28, 2021- Submitted a paper to International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet'21)
February 25, 2021 - Received my offer of full funding Ph.D. program in computer science at University of California Riverside (UCR)
February 25, 2020- My research work "A Novel Blockchain-Based Digital Identity" has been published in the proceedings of FICC 2020 : Advances in Information and Communication, pp 93-112 which is a part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1129) of Springer.
February 25, 2020- My research work "A Novel Image Steganography Using Multiple LSB Substitution and Pixel Randomization Using Stern-Brocot Sequence" has been published in the proceedings of FICC 2020: Advances in Information and Communication, pp 756-773. It is a part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1129) of Springer.
October 19, 2019- Joined as a Lecturer at Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
October 17, 2019- Left job at Linkstaff Co., Ltd.
August 13, 2019- My undergraduate Thesis Paper got accepted at Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC)-2020, San Francisco, California, USA supervised by Prof. Md. Shohrab Hossain.
August 13, 2019- Paper regarding steganography got accepted at Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC)–2020, San Francisco, California, USA supervised by Prof. Md. Shohrab Hossain.
June 10,2019- Started New job as Software Engineer at Link Staff Co.,Ltd
April 28, 2019 - Graduated from BUET officially.
April 27, 2019 - defended my undergraduate thesis successfully.
January 2, 2018 - Finished serving Science Club of Chuadanga(SCC) as Vice President.
October 29, 2017 - Paper got accepted at 4th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSys) 2017 supervised by Prof. A.B.M Alim Al Islam Razi.