News

[09/23] One paper is accepted at IEEE CNS'23, one of the premier conference on computer and network security!
[09/23] SPEED Lab PhD Student, Md Zarif Hossain has been awarded with prestigious NSF Student Travel Grant to attend 2023 ACM MobiHoc!
[09/23] Our paper on Federated Learning and Blockchain is accepted at IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Impact Factor: 10.238)!
[07/23] Our research paper is accepted at IEEE DSC'23!
[07/23] Dr. Imteaj serves on the Program Committee of AAAI'24!
[06/23] Our paper, Assessing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Differentially-Private Federated Learning, has been accepted to IEEE SmartComp'23! SPEED Lab PhD student Md. Zarif Hossain presented the paper at Nashville, TN.
[05/2023] Dr. Imteaj served on the Technical Program Committee of the 2023 IEEE World AI IoT Congress.
[2/2023] Our latest research in collaboration with RMU is accepted at IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Journal! [Impact Factor: 4.135]
[01/2023] Our latest research entitled “A Novel Scalable Reconfiguration Model for the Post disaster Network Connectivity of Resilient Power Distribution Systems” in collaboration with FIU and University of Nottingham is published at Sensors Journal! [Impact Factor: 3.847] [Link]
[01/2023] I am teaching Artificial Intelligence I in Spring'23 at SIUC!
[1/23] Joined as a Guest Editor of Privacy and Security in Federated Learning, A special issue of Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety. [Link]
[11/22] Delighted to share that our latest research on Federated Learning has been accepted at the AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering, Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'23)!
[10/22] Our latest research on Label Flipping Data Poisoning Attack Against Wearable Human Activity Recognition System with a collaboration with Robert Morris University is accepted at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022)!
[09/22] My recent research work entitled “Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices: Panoramas and State of the Art” in collaboration with researchers from FIU, Deep Learning Research at Samba Nova Systems, IBM TJ Watson, and Binghamton University is published in Federated and Transfer Learning Book!
I am teaching Machine Learning & Soft Computing course in the SoC at SIUC during the Fall'22!
[08/22] Big News!! Joined as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at SIUC!
[08/22] Whoa!! Recognized as the "2022 Real Triumphs Graduate" in the FIU Summer-2022 Commencement Ceremony! [Link] [FIU KFSCIS Coverage] [FIU CEC Coverage]
[07/22] Received the GPSC Travel Grant for their accepted paper at the CSCE'22 conference!
[04/22] Received the “2022 Outstanding Student Life Award: the Graduate Scholar of the Year Award" from the Division of Academic and Student Affairs at FIU.
[12/21] I had the great honor to receive “2021 Best Graduate Student Research Award" at the FIU Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. [Link][Link]
[12/21] Received the “Outstanding Master's Degree Graduate” award from Florida International University. This award has been given to only one master's graduate among all the engineering and computing departments. [Link] [Link]
Our collaborative work with Deep Learning Research at Samba Nova Systems, IBM TJ Watson, and Binghamton University, entitled “A Survey on Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices” is accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Impact factor: 10.207)! (Download Link) (IEEE Link)
We were invited to the FIU Book Authors Recognition for our book entitled, "Foundations of Blockchain: Theory and Applications" which is published by Springer and now available on Amazon! [Link] [Link]
Our paper in collaboration with Texas A&M University at Galveston and Lehigh University, entitled, "FedResilience: A Federated Learning Application to Improve Resilience of Resource-Constrained Critical Infrastructures" is published in the Special Issue on “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems” at Electronics Journal! (Impact Factor: 2.397) [Link]
[12/21] Received the IHCI-2021 Travel Scholarship Award for his latest research paper, "Exploiting Federated Learning Technique to Recognize Human Activities in Resource-constrained Environment" at IHCI'21, Kent, Ohio! [Link]
[12/21] Conducted a presentation session as a Session Chair at ICMLA'21 conference!
Our research paper on Distributed Network Optimization for Secure Operation of Interdependent Complex Networks funded by ARFL is accepted in The 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'21) (Acceptance rate: 16%). Dr. Imteaj presented the paper.
Conducted a webinar on, "Distributed Machine Learning for Large-Scale Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Tale of Energy Systems" as an invited speaker in Commemoration of IEEE PES Day.
Joined the Editorial Board of Data Science for Communications as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks Journal.