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Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Dept. of Computational, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
09/2024 - Present
Mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in their research, coursework, and career development.
Performing research and scholarly work in areas including cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, and critical infrastructure systems while publishing outcomes in reputed Journal/Conference.
Preparing external research grant proposals to contribute to the growth of the department’s research capacity.
Teaching core and advanced courses in Computer Science and Cybersecurity— advancing student engagement through innovative and hands-on learning approaches.
Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to produce high-impact publications and conference presentations.
Developing new course curricula (BS in Computer Engineering) to align with emerging trends in technology and industry needs.
Serving on departmental and university committees to support academic programs and institutional initiatives.
Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), NV
12/2022 - 05/2024
Advanced Robotics and Automation (ARA) Lab | https://ara.cse.unr.edu/
& Energy Reliability, Security, Stability, Resilience & Efficiency (E-RESILIENCY) Lab (part-time) | https://packpages.unr.edu/mbenidris/research-laboratory/
§ Leading the privacy and security research of ARA & E-RESILIENCY lab as a Ph.D. candidate
§ Investigating the privacy-aware multiagent data sharing protocols in the field of edge computing and robotic applications
§ Developing state-of-the-art methods for adversarial machine and federated learning through differential privacy (DP) and cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning (CMARL) using Pandas, PyTorch, ROS, C++, Matplotlib, etc.
§ Analyzing and implementing the novel adversarial privacy and security attacks to enhance the cybersecurity and resiliency of mission-critical power grid operations using RTDS, PMUs, and equipment of SCADA systems in E-RESILIENCY lab
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), NV
01/2020 - 05/2024
PACK: PrivACy and blocKchain Research Lab | https://sites.google.com/view/shahriarbadsha/home
& Advanced Robotics and Automation (ARA) Lab | https://ara.cse.unr.edu/
§ Studied cutting-edge privacy and security measures in the field of critical infrastructures
§ Designed and executed the experiments necessary to meet project goals
§ Analyzed adversarial machine learning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning in multiagent systems
§ Developed state-of-the-art blockchain frameworks, and differential privacy algorithms
§ Performed 1000+ hours of Python programming for research and class projects
§ Published 05 peer-reviewed articles in top IEEE conferences (e.g., IEEE IEMTRONICS 2020, IEEE CNS 2021, IEEE MSN 2021, IEEE CPSCom 2021, IEEE ISGT NA 2023, etc.)
§ Served as a reviewer for 10+ research articles in top-notch conferences and journals (IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, ICRA 2023, ICHMS 2022, CSAE 2022, etc.)
§ Mentored 500+ students for the Computer Communication Network and Digital Design courses in UNR
Lead System Engineer 12/2014 – 06/2020
Operation Support System (OSS), Service Operations, Technology Division
Grameenphone Limited, Telenor, Bangladesh
§ Provided 24/7 engineering support, and coordinated with operators and technicians for resolving different technical issues related to operations and maintenance during my tenure as a System Engineer (12/14 to 04/17) and as a Senior System Engineer (05/17 to 04/19)
§ Developed Vendor Management System (VMS) app to facilitate job deliveries within the timeline
§ Awarded ‘Regional Operations Achiever’ title in 2016 for developing interactive dashboards and websites that visualize the network status of 400+ territory locations and 14000+ Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs)
§ Conceptualized the idea, coordinated with cross-functional teams, and led the ‘smart configuration management, scripting, and auditing’ project as a lead developer at the Integration and Configuration department of Grameenphone Ltd. (05/17 to 04/18) which saved 1152+ man-hours and $20,000 per annum in terms of operational costs and process reliability
§ Accomplished an improvement in QoS through network data analysis and a 48% man-hour reduction by developing smart tools and scripts for auto-capturing the graphical user interface of web services during my tenure as a Senior System Engineer in the Service Assurance department (05/18 to 04/19)
§ Achieved ‘Best Employee’ award in 2018 for developing telegram bots under the “Smart Reporting for CXO” project
§ Introduced and led the process automation project in the Operation Support System (OSS) department during my tenure as a Lead Engineer (05/19 to 06/20)
§ Delivered up-to-date network data analysis reports to the management within the deadline
§ Streamlined the vendor and stakeholder coordination to achieve yearly targets
§ Accelerated improvement projects and customer-centric approaches to reduce OpEx and improve QoS
Automation Drive in Grameenphone Ltd. :
(* Data & Figures are modified and shown as Dummy Data to protect Secrecy as per company policy)1. Service Assurance Dashboard:
Platform: Wordpress, PHP, Python, MySQL
Built it to observe KPI trend on regular basis.
Interactive Selection and Data Download Facilities
2. Sitepedia:
Platform: PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL
Automated tool for storing over 90+ information for approximately 14,000 BTS around the country.
Interactive Dashboard for viewing the information on user-customized manner.
Download facilities of all the Data.
3. Territory Dashboard:
Platform: Tableau, Python, MySQL
Formulated Data viewing dashboard for over 400+ Territory location around Bangladesh.
Facilitated with customizing the dashboard to view Region, Circle & Network wise data
Has the data storing capability on weekly basis, also available options to download the data.
4. Re-homing Inconsistency Audit:
Platform: PHP, Python, MySQL
Audit tool for checking inconsistency after re-homing the Base Transceiver Station of Huawei & Ericsson domain.
Facilitated with generating Summary Report.
Has the ability to store and fetch previous report on need basis.
5. Smart Configuration Management Tool:
Platform: Python
End-to-end solution for generating Script, Checking it, Executing it in different servers and validating the output for Network Parameter Tuning work for Telecom industry (Test bed: Grameenphone Ltd.)
Has the ability to capture the Error and modification on need basis.
6. Reporting Telegram BOT:
Platform: Python, PHP, MySQL
NavigateIT BOT: A telegram BOT for quickly viewing all the IT related performance KPIs (Test bed: Grameenphone Ltd.)
Network Navigator: Another telegram BOT for quickly viewing all the BTS count based on various category (Test bed: Grameenphone Ltd.)
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE & EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
ANDROMEDA SPACE & ROBOTIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATION .May 2010 - June 2014
Co-founder & General Secretary(February 2013 - June 2014)
www.cuet.ac.bd/organization.php
TASKS:
Developed embedded system solution targeting different types of day to day life Application.
Disseminated & Conducted research interest among the students of CUET.
Organized workshops, technical sessions, training program, electronic & embedded system designing contest, Robotics program - considering both intro &intra-university participation.
We, Andromeda Space and Robotic Research Organization along with EEE Department, CUET organized first RoboFight competition ever held in Bangladesh. The program was targeted to motivate students’ to get involved in robotics and to take Bangladesh in a new position in this field.
I was in charge of the Co-ordination and Managing internal & external stakeholders along with ensure necessary technical supports.
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