Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (September 2022-Present)
MS in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (September 2022-December 2025)
MS in Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, Dearborn (September 2019-April 2021)
BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (April 2012-February 2017)
Work Experience
AI/ML Intern, AI and Automation Group, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, Sunnyvale, CA (Summer 2026)
Graduate Assistant, ProperAI and ProperData, University of California Irvine (Fall 2022-Present)
Visiting Research Scholar, ISI, University of Southern California (Summer 2021)
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan, Dearborn (Sept 2019-April 2021)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Dearborn (Sept 2019-April 2021)
Honors and Awards
Scholarship Awardee and travel grant ($500) recipient for Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) conference, 2026.
ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholar, 2025 (~ $10,000).
Travel grant recipient for Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2025.
Scholarship Awardee and travel grant ($500) recipient for Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) conference, 2025.
Awardee of UCI Associate Graduate Student (AGS) Conference Travel Fund, Fall 2024!
Awardee of NSF travel grant for WiML workshop (co-located with NeurIPS), 2024.
Received MEP certificate from UCI.
Security Training Scholarship in Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS), 2024.
Scholarship Awardee for Grad Cohort Workshop for Women (CRA-WP), 2024.
Scholarship Awardee for Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) conference, 2024.
Idea contest champion team on ProPerdata 2022 Symposium.
4th in Regional round of National Robotic Festival (NRF) in National Robotics Festival, 2014.
5th in international IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Student Competition (December 2013), Award Amount $1000.
147th Merit Scholarship to attend Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2012) (Top 2%)
Technical Scholarship from Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BUET, 2012-2016.
Presentations and Invited Talks
Invited Talk: “Privacy and Safety Risks in Emerging Technologies,” hosted by Professor Ram Sundara Ramen at Security Seminar, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2026.
Presented Poster: "VRProfiLens: User Profiling Risk in Consumer Virtual Reality Apps" at WiCyS 2026 Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
Presented Paper: "VRProfiLens: User Profiling Risk in Consumer Virtual Reality Apps" at 16th Usable Security and Privacy Symposium (USEC), Colocated with NDSS, 2026.
Presented Paper: "BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data" on PETS 2025.
Presented Poster: "MLSherlock: An Audit Lens for Policy Compliance Machine Learning Systems" on WiML, NeurIPS 2024.
Presented Poster: "BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data" on UCI AI and Cloud workshop on 2024.
Presented Poster: "BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data" on UCI-UCLA privacy workshop, 2024.
Presented Paper: "MIAShield: Defending Membership Inference Attacks via Preemptive Exclusion of Members" at PETS2023.
Presented Paper: "DP-UTIL: Comprehensive Utility Analysis of Differential Privacy in Machine Learning" at ACM CODASPY 2022.
Presented Paper: "PRICURE: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Inference in a Multi-Party Setting" at IWSPA ’21: ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics.
Presented Paper: "Retinal Vein Detection using Residual Block Incorporated UNet Architecture and Fuzzy Inference System" at IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), 2018.
Presented Paper: "Natural and Medical Image Encryption using Self-Adaptive Permutation and DNA Encoding" at IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), 2018.
Presented Paper: "Performance Evaluation of SISO OFDM System in the Presence of CFO, Timing Jitter, and Phase Noise for Rayleigh and Rician Fading Channels" at IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10HTC), 2017.
Presented Paper: "Performance Evaluation of MLD and ZFE in a MIMO OFDM System Impaired by Carrier Frequency Offset, Phase Noise, and Timing Jitter" at IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP), 2017.
Volunteering and Professional Services
Professional Services
Paper Reviewer: NeurIPS 2026, USENIX 2026.
PC Committee, Poster/demo track: ACM CCS 2025, CSCW 2025.
Artifact Reviewer Committee: USENIX 2026, PETS 2026, USENIX 2025, PETS 2025.
Workshop Reviewer Committee: WiML Workshop, NeurIPS 2025; Regulatable ML, NeurIPS 2025; WiML Workshop, NeurIPS 2024.
Invited Services
Invited Judge, UROP Project Pitch Challenge, Fall-2025.
Invited Judge, UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium, Spring-2025 .
Invited Panelist, ProperData IOT Workshop for Computer Science Undergraduates, 2023.
Leadership and Academic Volunteering
Student Volunteer, WiML (NeurIPS) 2024, HotNets 2024.
Secretary, Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) UCI Student Chapter , 2023-2024.
Official Photographer, IEEE ex-com, IEEE BUET student branch, 2015-2017.
Organizer, IEEE International WIE Conference (2016) and WIE BUET student branch.
Teaching and Mentorship Experience
Mentor, Code to PhD, 2025-present.
Mentor undergraduate students, including underrepresented and first-generation students, on navigating the graduate school process, preparing graduate school application materials, and developing research readiness.
Mentor, Next Gen Pathways-UCI , 2025-present, 2024-2025.
Provide guidance to first-year PhD and master’s students at UCI on navigating graduate school, selecting relevant courses, developing research skills, managing academic–personal balance, and planning long-term career and research goals.
Mentees (2024-2025): Hewen Zhang (PhD student, CS, UCI), Zhenglin Li (MS student, CS, UCI)
Mentor, WiCys Mentorship cohort, 2025-present, 2024-2025 cohort (Associated with WiCyS leadership series and WiCyS Global).
Serve as a mentor in the WiCyS Mentorship Cohort, part of the WiCyS Leadership Series and WiCyS Global, supporting students and early-career professionals in cybersecurity through guidance on research, career development, and leadership growth.
Mentees (2025-2026): Faith Turner (Marine Corps Veteran and student at George Washington University), Tatum Allen (Cybersecurity Analyst (ITS I) at California Commission for Behavioral Health) .
Mentees (2024-2025): Sienna Hanna (SWE, former SCU undergrad), Sherie Yip (SWE, former HCC undergrad), Cynthia Roman (IT specialists, former CSU-San Bernardino undergrad)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine 2022-2023
Computer Networks (Graduate), Database Management System (Undergraduate), Boolean Algebra (Undergraduate).
Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Dearborn, 2019-2022:
Data Privacy and Security (Graduate), Discrete Structure (Undergraduate).
