Md. Shohidul Islam, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, DUET, Gazipur
Dr. Md Shohidul Islam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), Gazipur, Bangladesh. He received the PhD degree in Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Virginia, USA in 2024. During the doctoral journey, he worked as a PhD Intern at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, Washington, USA and as a Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, USA. Prior to that, he received an MSc in Computer Engineering at the University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2012 and a BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Rajshahi, Bangladesh in 2007. His research focuses in the intersection of Computer Architecture, Machine Learning, and Security. As an outcome, his works appeared in the top-tier IEEE/ACM venues including HPCA, DAC, DATE, ICCAD, TC, TCAD HOST, ICCD, ISQED, and Springer Nature. Besides, his research once received the Best Paper Award and an Excellent Paper Award. Moreover, he also served as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC), IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), and Scientific Reports (Nature).
| Mobile: | 01334-741404 |
| Email: | [email protected] |
| Office: | 0249274034-53, Ext. 3247, |
| Address: | Room 302, Old Academic Building, CSE Department, DUET, Gazipur-1707, |
| Field of interest: | System/Cyber Security, Adversarial Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, Medical Image Processing |
| Field of specialization: | Security of Computer System and Machine Learning |
Degrees Obtained (Starting from Recent Degrees):
| # | Degree | Institute | Year | Discipline & Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PhD | George Mason University, Virginia, USA | 2024 | Computer Engineering (Field: Security of Computing System and Machine Learning) |
| 2 | M.Sc. in Eng. | University of Ulsan, South Korea | 2012 | Computer Engineering (Field: High-Performance Computing) |
| 3 | B.Sc. in Eng. | Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Rajshahi, Bangladesh | 2007 | Computer Science and Engineering |
| 4 | HSC | Bogra Cantonment Public School & College, Bogra, Bangladesh | 2002 | Science |
| 5 | SSC | Rameswerpur High School, Gabtoli, Bogra | 2000 | Science |
Employment Record (Starting from Present Position):
| # | Designation | Institute | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Associate Professor | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2024-03-27 : Continue |
| 2 | Assistant Professor | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2011-12-29 : 2024-03-26 |
| 3 | Lecturer | Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur | 2008-10-12 : 2011-12-28 |
Publications (Journal):
| # | Year | Title | Authors | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2023 | SecureVolt: Enhancing Deep Neural Networks Security via Undervolting | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4922 - 4933, USA |
| 2 | 2021 | Efficient Hardware Malware Detectors That are Resilient to Adversarial Evasion | 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, USA |
| 3 | 2019 | E-MIIM: an ensemble-learning-based context-aware mobile telephony model for intelligent interruption management | 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, USA |
| 4 | 2015 | Computationally efficient implementation of a Hamming code decoder using graphics processing unit | Md Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, and Jong-Myon Kim | IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 198-202, South Korea |
| 5 | 2015 | A fast and energy-efficient Hamming decoder for software-defined radio using graphics processing units | Jaeyoung Kim, Myeongsu Kang, Md Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, and Jong-Myon Kim | The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, vol. 71, no.3, pp. 2454–2472, USA |
| 6 | 2014 | Accelerating the formant synthesis of haegeum sounds using a general-purpose graphics processing unit | Myeongsu Kang, Md Shohidul Islam, Rashedul Islam, Jong-Myon Kim | Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, vol. 75, no. 23, pp. 445 - 459, USA |
| 7 | 2014 | A GPU-based (8, 4) Hamming decoder for secure transmission of watermarked medical images | Md. Shohidul Islam, Cheol-Hong Kim, Jong-Myon Kim | Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 333--341, USA |
| 8 | 2014 | Accelerating extended hamming code decoders on graphic processing units for high speed communication | Md Shohidul Islam and Jong-Myon Kim | IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E97-B, No.5, pp.1050-1058, Japan |
| 9 | 2014 | End-to-End High Speed Forward Error Correction Using Graphics Processing Units | Md Shohidul Islam and Jong-Myon Kim | Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE'14), Springer, vol. 274, pp. 47-53, USA |
| 10 | 2014 | Accelerating Adaptive Forward Error Correction Using Graphics Processing Units | Md Shohidul Islam and Jong-Myon Kim | Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, vol. 274, pp. 591–597, USA |
| 11 | 2013 | GPU-based fast error recovery for high speed data communication in media technology | Md Shohidul Islam, Jong-Myon Kim | Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 93–101, USA |
| 12 | 2009 | Effect of Ground Conductivity on Radiation Pattern of a Dipole Antenna | Md. Shahidul Islam, Md. Shohidul Islam, Md. Shah Alam | International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 278-283, Singapore |
| 13 | 2009 | On Analytical Performance Measurement of Concurrency Control Protocols in DBMS | Samir Kumar Ghosh, Md. Shohidul Islam, Md. Anisur Rahman | International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 284-287, Singapore |
| 14 | 2009 | Real Time Face Recognition Using Step Error Tolerance BPN | Sarawat Anam, Md. Shohidul Islam, M. A Kashem, M.A Rahman | International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 92-96, Singapore |
Publications (Conference):
| # | Year | Title | Authors | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024 | Hardware Support for Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Survey | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'24), Apr 3-4, 2024, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 2 | 2024 | Harnessing ML Privacy by Design Through Crossbar Non-idealities | Md Shohidul Islam, Sankha Dutta, Andes Marquez, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '24) Conference, March 25-27, 2024, Valencia, Spain |
| 3 | 2023 | Stochastic-HMDs: Adversarial-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors via Undervolting | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC'23), July 9-13, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 4 | 2023 | Vpp: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning via Undervolting | Md Shohidul Islam, Behnam Omidi, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST '23) , May 1- 4, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 5 | 2021 | Securing Deep Neural Networks against Adversarial Attacks through Voltage Overscaling | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC'21), WiP, Dec. 5-9, 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6 | 2021 | Lower Voltage for Higher Security: Using Voltage Overscaling to Secure Deep Neural Networks | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD'21), Nov 2-4, 2021, Munich, Germany |
| 7 | 2021 | Monotonic-HMDs: Exploiting Monotonic Features to Defend Against Evasive Malware | Md Shohidul Islam, Behnam Omidi, Khaled N. Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'21), Apr 7-9, 2021, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 8 | 2021 | Enhancing Hardware Malware Detectors’ Security through Voltage Over-scaling | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | ACM Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (CogArch @ HPCA'21), Feb 27-Mar 3, 2021, Seoul, Korea |
| 9 | 2020 | ND-HMDs: Non-Differentiable Hardware Malware Detectors against Evasive Transient Execution Attacks | Md Shohidul Islam, Abraham Peedikayil Kuruvila, Kanad Basu, and Khaled N. Khasawneh | IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'20), Oct 8-21, 2020, Hartford, CT, USA |
| 10 | 2020 | Approx-HMDs: Approximating Hardware Malware Detectors to Defend Against Adversarial Attacks | Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N Khasawneh | IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC'20), WiP, Jun 20-24, 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 11 | 2020 | GPU based Real Time Reconstruction of Compressed Sampling MRI | Rafiqul Islam, Md Shafiqul Islam, and Md Shohidul Islam | IEEE International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Its Applications (CSPA'20), Feb. 28-29, 2020, Langkawi, Malaysia |
| 12 | 2014 | Real Time Secure Transmission of Watermarked Medical Image for E-Diagnosis System using GPU | Md Shohidul Islam, Uipil Chong, and Jong-Myon Kim | 2014 FTRA International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Computing (AMC'14), Jeju, Korea. (Best paper award) |
| 13 | 2014 | Gpu based high speed error protection for watermarked medical image transmission | Md Shohidul Islam, Uipil Chong, Jongmyon Kim | International Conference on Computer and Communication Networks Engineering (ICCCNE’14), Barcelona, Spain, 2014. |
| 14 | 2014 | 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) |
| 15 | 2009 | Face recognition using genetic algorithm and back propagation neural network | Sarawat Anam, Md Shohidul Islam, M. A. Kashem, M. N. Islam, M. R. Islam, and M. S. Islam | Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS’09), HongKong |
| 16 | 2009 | An empirical distributed matrix multiplication algorithm to reduce time complexity | Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Shohidul Islam, M.A. Kashem, M.R. Islam, M.S. Islam | n Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS’09), HongKong |
| 17 | 2009 | Tcp variants and network parameters: a comprehensive performance analysis | Md. Shohidul Islam, M.A Kashem, W.H Sadid, M. A Rahman, M.N Islam, S. Anam | Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS’09), HongKong |
| 18 | 2009 | Wireless tcp in unfair situation: performance degradation and improvement | Md. Shohidul Islam, W.H. Sadid, M. A Kashem, M. A Rahman, M.N Islam | Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS’09), HongKong |
| 19 | 2009 | Performance measurement of various routing protocols in ad-hoc network | Md. Anisur Rahman, Md. Shohidul Islam, and Alex Talevski | Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS’09), HongKong |
Fellowship / Membership of Scientific and Professional Societies:
| # | Type | Organization | Membership Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Member | IEEE | 97096431 |
Honors and Awards:
| # | Title | Event | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'Outstanding Academic Achievement Award' for PhD records | George Mason University, Virginia, USA | 2024 |
| 2 | Doctoral Research Scholarship | George Mason University, Virginia, USA | 2023 |
| 3 | Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship | University of California, Riverside, USA | 2018 |
| 4 | BK21 (Brain Korea) travel grants to present conference paper in Barcelona, Spain | University of Ulsan, South Korea | 2014 |
| 5 | Best paper award | Int’l Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Computing, Jeju, South Korea | 2013 |
| 6 | Excellent Paper Award | Computer Information Conference, Daejeon, South Korea | 2013 |
| 7 | Korean Govt. Global IT scholarship to study Master’s in South Korea | University of Ulsan, South Korea | 2012 |
| 8 | Position in top 10 in B.Sc. Engineering | Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Rajshahi | 2006 |
| 9 | Government scholarship for toppers | HSC Examination | 2002 |
| 10 | Government scholarship for toppers | SSC Examination | 2000 |
Guided Ph. D./ M.Sc. / M.Engg. Students:
| # | Programme | Awarded Students | Running Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.Sc. | 32 | 6 |
List of Conferences, Short-term Course etc. Organized or Participated):
| # | Event | Organizer | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) | IEEE/ACM, USA | Reviewer | 2024 |
| 2 | Scientific Reports | Nature | Reviewer | 2023 |
| 3 | IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC) | IEEE, USA | Reviewer | 2023 |
| 4 | International Conference on Next-Generation Computing, IoT and Machine Learning (NCIM 2023) | Department of CSE, DUET | Reviewer | 2023 |
Course Conducted:
| # | Programme | Course No | Course Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B.Sc. | CSE-1121 | Structured Programming Language | 2009-2010 |
| 2 | B.Sc. | CSE-1823 | Digital Logic & System Design | 2009-2010 |
| 3 | B.Sc. | CSE-2513 | Discrete Mathematics | 2017-2018 |
| 4 | B.Sc. | CSE-2821 | Digital Electronics & Pulse Technique | 2014-2016 |
| 5 | B.Sc. | CSE-2823 | Computer Architecture | 2014-2015 |
| 6 | B.Sc. | CSE-3511 | Algorithm Design & Analysis | 2011-2012 |
| 7 | B.Sc. | CSE-3811 | Microprocessor and Assembly Language | 2008-2011 |
| 8 | B.Sc. | CSE-4621 | Computer Graphics & Multimedia | 2014-2017 |
| 9 | B.Sc. | CSE-4711 | Simulation & Modeling | 2008-2012 |
| 10 | M.Sc. | CSE-6304 | Network Security | 2015-2017 |