I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Florida Polytechnic University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2026, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Li Chen. Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology in 2017. I have over four years of work experience in various companies.

My primary research interest lies in Federated Learning, AI/ML Security and Privacy, Edge Computing, and Generative AI. I am particularly interested in developing communication-efficient federated learning algorithms to solve heterogeneous problems in real-world applications.

What’s New!

• 07/2026: Accepted an Assistant Professor position at Florida Polytechnic University, starting Fall 2026.
• 07/2026: Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation 🎓. Officially Dr. Islam!
• 06/2026: Selected as a participant for the NSF-funded CyberStar Workshop (June 22–24, 2026).
• 05/2026: Awarded Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant to attend IPDPS 2026.
• 03/2026: Invited as Reviewer of NeurIPS 2026.
• 03/2026: Invited as Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
• 02/2026: Invited as Program Committee member of IJCAI 2026.
• 12/2025: Our paper gets accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2026.
• 12/2025: Successfully passed PhD Prospectus Exam.
• 09/2025: Invited as Reviewer of CVPR 2026.
• 08/2025: Invited as Reviewer of AISTATS 2026.
• 05/2025: Awarded MS in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
• 04/2025: Officially recognized as a PhD Candidate.
• 02/2025: Awarded the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from ULL for the 2025-2026 academic year.
• 02/2025: Invited as Reviewer of ICCV 2025 and NeurIPS 2025.
• 12/2024: Our paper gets accepted to IPDPS 2025.
• 12/2024: Invited as Reviewer of ICML 2025.
• 11/2024: Invited as Reviewer of CVPR 2025.
• 10/2024: Presented our research group demo on Federated Learning at Science Day 2024.
• 08/2024: Received ULL SGA International Friendship Non-Endowed Scholarship.
• 06/2024: Our paper gets accepted to ICPP 2024.

Contact

• Email: mdsirajulislam@floridapoly.edu
• Office: IST-2033
• Location: Florida Polytechnic University