Reviewer
October 2025Journal of Electronic Testing
Article on power side-channel analysis
Research · Industry · Peer review · Talks
Experience & Service
Research and industry roles, teaching, peer review for IEEE and ACM venues, and invited talks and posters.
Positions
Research & professional experience
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Graduate Research Assistant
September 2022 – PresentUniversity of Maine — SIEGE Lab · Orono, Maine, USAHardware security, logic locking, and applied machine learning, advised by Dr. Prabuddha Chakraborty.
- Lead author on explainable-AI frameworks for design-for-security, hardware Trojan detection, and power side-channel mitigation.
- Two provisional patents filed with industry and academic partners.
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Instructor, NSF ITEST Semiconductor Summer Camp
July 2025University of Maine · Portland, Maine, USAFive-day camp introducing high school students to semiconductors and microelectronics.
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Software Engineer
July 2021 – April 2022Robi Axiata Limited · Gulshan, Dhaka, BangladeshTelecommunications operator serving more than 50 million subscribers.
- Built and maintained services using MVC architecture, Linux internals, and bash automation.
- Managed user access for a multinational organization and handled SLA-bound operational support.
Education
Degrees
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Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fall 2022 – PresentUniversity of Maine · Orono, Maine, USAGraduate Research Assistant, SIEGE Lab
- CGPA 3.76
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Master of Science in Computer Engineering
September 2022 – May 2025University of Maine · Orono, Maine, USAGraduate Research Assistant, SIEGE Lab
- CGPA 3.67
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering
March 2016 – January 2021Jahangirnagar University · Dhaka, Bangladesh- CGPA 3.79
Service
Peer review & community
Reviewing for IEEE and ACM venues, judging student research, and serving the university community.
Reviewer
June 2025ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
Article on hardware obfuscation
Reviewer
January 2025IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
Article on hardware Trojans
Reviewer
February 2025IEEE Access
Article on hardware Trojans
Judge, Undergraduate Research
April 2024University of Maine Student Symposium
Graduate Student Member
CurrentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
President, Bangladesh Students' Association
2023University of Maine
Led cultural programming for the international student community.
Dissemination
Presentations & talks
10 oral presentations, posters, and panels across 3 lines of work.
POLARIS: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Mitigating Power Side-Channel Leakage
- Oral 62nd Design Automation Conference · San Francisco, California June 2025
- Poster Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference, University of Florida · Gainesville, Florida December 2025
- Poster DAC Young Fellowship Program December 2025
SALTY: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Guided Structural Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection
- Oral NSF Hardware Assurance Workshop at DAC · San Francisco, California June 2025
- Oral 43rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium · Arizona State University April 2025
- Panel WHiSPerS: Wearable Health Monitoring Systems for Privacy & Security · University of New Hampshire March 2025
- Poster UMaine Student Symposium · Orono, Maine April 2025
Securing Microelectronic Designs from Reverse Engineering using Artificial Intelligence
- Poster New England Hardware Security Day · Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 2025
- Poster The Roux Institute at Northeastern University · Portland, Maine January 2023
- Poster Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium · University of North Dakota October 2022