About me:
Hello! I am a final-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA; I completed my 1st year of Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. Prior to that, I earned an MS in Computer Engineering at the University of Ulsan, South Korea and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. My Ph.D. advisor is Professor Khaled N Khasawneh, and MS advisor was Professor Jongmyon Kim.
Research area:
Security/Privacy of Machine Leaning
Computer Architecture Security
Hardware Malware Detection
High-Performance Computing on GPU and FPGA
Neuromorphic/Quantum Computing
Email: mislam20 (at) gmu (dot) edu
academic experience
PhD Intern Pacific Nortwest National Lab, Richland, WA, USA (Feb. 2023 ~ To Date)
Research Assistant George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (2019 ~ Feb. 2023)
Teaching Assistant George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (2019 ~ 2020)
Research Scholar University of California, Riverside, CA, USA (2018 ~ 2019)
Teaching Faculty Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh (2014 ~ 2018)
Research Assistant University of Ulsan, Korea (2012 ~ 2014)
Lecturer Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh (2008 ~ 2012)
selected publications
IEEE
MICRO '24
Optimization of ML Security/Privacy Through RRAM Non-idealities
Md Shohidul Islam, Sankha Dutta, Andes Marquez, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
IEEE MICRO, (Under Review)
ACM
ComSec '24
Undervolting for Hardening Hardware Malware Detectors Against Evasion Attacks
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
ACM Computers and Security, (Under Review)
ISQED '24
Hardware Support for Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Survey
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
25th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'24), Apr 3-4, 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA
DATE '24
Harnessing ML Privacy by Design Through Crossbar Non-idealities
Md Shohidul Islam, Sankha Dutta, Andes Marquez, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
27th ACM/IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '24) Conference, March 25-27, 2024, Valencia, Spain
TCAD '23
SecureVolt: Enhancing Deep Neural Networks Security via Undervolting [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023
HOST '23
Vpp: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning via Undervolting [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Behnam Omidi, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
16th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST '23) , May 1- 4, San Jose, CA, USA
TC '21
Efficient Hardware Malware Detectors that are Resilient to Adversarial Evasion [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, and Lei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 71, no. 11, pp. 2872 - 2887, March 29, 2021
DAC '21
Securing Deep Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks through Voltage Overscaling [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'21), WiP, Dec. 5-9, 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA
CogArch @
HPCA '21
Enhancing Hardware Malware Detectors’ Security through Voltage Over-scaling [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
5th ACM Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (CogArch @ HPCA'21), Feb 27-Mar 3, 2021, Seoul, Korea
ICCD '20
DAC '20
Approx-HMDs: Approximating Hardware Malware Detectors to Defend Against Adversarial Attacks [talk]
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh
57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'20), WiP, Jun 20-24, 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA
CSPA '20
GPU based Real Time Reconstruction of Compressed Sampling MRI [pdf]
Rafiqul Islam, Md Shafiqul Islam, and Md Shohidul Islam
16th IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Its Applications (CSPA'20), Feb. 28-29, 2020, Langkawi, Malaysia
AI & SOCIETY '20
E-MIIM: an ensemble-learning-based context-aware mobile telephony model for intelligent interruption management [pdf]
Iqbal H Sarker, ASM Kayes, Md Hasan Furhad, Mohammad Mainul Islam, Md Shohidul Islam
Journal of AI & SOCIETY, Springer Nature, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 459--467, 2020
JCN '15
Computationally efficient implementation of a hamming code decoder using graphics processing unit [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, and Jong-Myon Kim
IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN'15), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 198-202, April 2015
SUPE '15
A fast and energy-efficient Hamming decoder for software-defined radio using graphics processing units [pdf]
Jaeyoung Kim, Myeongsu Kang, Md Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, and Jong-Myon Kim
The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, (SUPE'15), vol. 71, no.3, pp. 2454–2472, March 2015
Cluster '15
GPU-based fast error recovery for high speed data communication in media technology [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam and Jong-Myon Kim
Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, (Cluster'15), vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 93–101, October, 2015
IEICE TC '14
Accelerating extended hamming code decoders on graphic processing units for high speed communication [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam and Jong-Myon Kim
IEICE Transactions on Communications (IEICE TC'14), vol. E97-B, No.5, pp.1050-1058, May 2014
Multimedia '14
Accelerating the formant synthesis of haegeum sounds using a general-purpose graphics processing unit [pdf]
Myeongsu Kang, Md Shohidul Islam, Rashedul Islam, Jong-Myon Kim
Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (Multimedia'14), vol. 75, no. 23, pp. 445 - 459, 2014
AMC '14
Real Time Secure Transmission of Watermarked Medical Image for E-Diagnosis System using GPU
Md Shohidul Islam, Ui-pil Chong, Jong-Myon Kim
2014 FTRA International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Computing (AMC'14), Jeju, Korea. (Best paper award)
CIC '14
Spectral Modeling Synthesis of Haegeum using GPU
Md Shohidul Islam, Md Rashedul Islam, Fahmid Al Farid, Jong-Myon Kim
Proc. of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference (KSCIC '14), Daejeon, Korea (Excellent paper award)
ICCCNE '14
GPU based High Speed Error Protection for Watermarked Medical Image Transmission
Md Shohidul Islam, Ui-pil Chong, Jong-Myon Kim
Int. Conf. on Computer and Communication Networks Engineering (ICCCNE'14), February 27-28, 2014, Barcelona, Spain
Cluster '14
A GPU-based (8, 4) Hamming decoder for secure transmission of watermarked medical images [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, Jong-Myon Kim
Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer ( Cluster'14), vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 333--341, July, 2014
LNEE '14
Accelerating Adaptive Forward Correction Using Graphics Processing Units [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, and Jong-Myon Kim
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE'14), Springer, vol. 274, pp. 591-597, January, 2014
LNEE '14
End-to-End High Speed Forward Error Correction Using Graphics Processing Units [pdf]
Md Shohidul Islam, and Jong-Myon Kim
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE'14), Springer, vol. 274, pp. 47-53, January, 2014
Awards
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from ECE Department, George Mason University, 2024
NSF travel grant to present our paper at 2024 ACM/IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '24) Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2024
DAC travel grant to present our paper at 2023 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC '23), San Francisco, California, 2023
Young Fellow, 2023 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC '23), San Francisco, California, 2023
Doctoral Research Scholarship, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2022-2023
NSF travel grant to present research at 2021 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC '21), San Francisco, California, 2021
Dean's Distinguished Fellowship, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 2018-2019
Best paper award, International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Computing (AMC '14), Jeju, Korea, 2014
Excellent paper award, Korean Society of Computer Information Conference, Daejeon, Korea, 2014
Brain Korea (BK21) travel grants to present conference paper in Barcelona, Spain, 2014
Korean Govt. Global IT scholarship to study Master's in South Korea, 2012-2014
Technical scholarship for undergraduate result, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, 2003-2007
Bangladesh Govt. scholarships for Secondary School and Higher Secondary Certificate Exam result, 2000-2006
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
Nature Journal, Scientific Reports
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED 2024)
IEEE International Conference on Next-Generation Computing, IoT and Machine Learning (NCIM 2023)
teaching & others
@ George Mason University [as Teaching Assistant]
ECE 301 - Digital Electronics Lab Fall 2019: (with Prof. Sean Yun)
ECE 590 - Computer Architecture Security Spring 2020: (with Prof. Khaled N Khasawneh)
ECE 448 - FPGA/ASIC Design with VHDL Spring 2020: (with Prof. Kris Gaz)
ECE 286 - Electric Circuit Analysis II Spring 2020: (with Prof. Nathalia Peixoto)
ECE 232 - Digital System and Design Lab Fall 2021 & Spring 2022: (with Prof. Craig A Lorie)
@ Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology [as Teaching Faculty]
2014 ~ 2018 and 2008 ~ 2012: Taught the following undergraduate courses and their labs
Structured Programming Language C, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithm Design, Digital Electronics and Pulse Techniques, Microprocessor and Assembly Language, Simulation and Modeling, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Cryptography and Network Security
Mentored Master's and Undergraduate projects and dissertations @ George Mason University