Dr. Ahmed Imteaj, Director of the SPEED Lab has been listed in the prestigious World's Top 2% Scientist list, as recognized by Stanford University. This recognition highlights his outstanding contributions to research with significant impact in 2023. The list, compiled by Stanford University and published by Elsevier, ranks scientists across various fields based on standardized citation metrics, such as citation counts, h-index, and co-authorship metrics.
April 2024 - 🏆 Dr. Ahmed Imteaj, a distinguished faculty member at the School of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant of amount $167,000 as a sole PI. This accolade includes a substantial sum of $167,500, provided by the NSF's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. Thanks to NSF!
March 2024 - 🏆 Dr. Ahmed Imteaj’s collaborative project with FIU has been awarded a grant from US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) program. The project is scheduled for a duration of one year, with an approved funding amount of around $100,000. Thanks to DHS!
April 2024 Two papers from the SPEED Lab is accepted at the prestigious 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'24) conference. Congrats to PhD student, Zarif and Dr. Imteaj!
December 2023 SPEED lab member, Md Zarif Hossain, has been awarded with a prestigious Doctoral fellowship in recognition of his exceptional academic achievements and potential in research. Zarif’s unwavering commitment to advancing the boundaries of our understanding through rigorous research has distinguished him among his peers, making this accolade a well-deserved acknowledgment of his hard work and dedication. Congratulations, Zarif!
November 23 SPEED Lab member, Saika Zaman won the Second Prize for her paper on Trustworthy Agent-Driven Particle Swarm Optimization for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning at the 2023 CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference in Dallas, Texas, and she has been awarded the prestigious Tapia scholarship. Congratulations, Saika!
Our paper, Assessing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Differentially-Private Federated Learning, has been accepted to IEEE SmartComp'23! SPEED Lab PhD student Md. Zarif Hossain presented the paper at Nashville, TN