Bio
Dr. Sheikh Rabiul Islam is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and a faculty member of CCIB (Center for Computational and Integrative Biology) at Rutgers University - Camden .
Dr. Islam’s research interests center around Explainable and Fair Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Social Good, and Health Informatics.
He developed many techniques to infuse external knowledge (e.g., domain knowledge, social values) into the decision and explanation process of Artificial Intelligence-based automated decision
systems (i.e., black box) to make the decision (e.g., predictive policing, public funding allocation, disease symptoms and impact analysis, credit approval, digital forensics) fairer and
more explainable. Prior to Rutgers, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Hartford for three years.
Dr. Islam earned his Ph.D. in Engineering (Computer Science) from Tennessee Tech University in 2020.
He had the privilege of receiving co-guidance from Dr. William Eberle and
Dr. Sheikh Ghafoor throughout his Ph.D. studies.
News
Nov 5, 2024, Three papers from my research group have been accepted at the IEEE Big Data 2024 Conference: (1) Leveraging Large Language Models and Deep Learning for Detecting Illegal Insider Trading, (2) Prompt Chaining-Assisted Malware Detection: A Hybrid Approach Utilizing Fine-Tuned LLMs and Domain Knowledge-Enriched Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs, and (3) Algorithmic Lending Bias: Evaluating the Fairness of Historical Redlining in Loan Approvals.
July 5, 2024, Received NSF Award: NSF 2416991: (2024-2027) - Training AI-skilled and Fairness-aware Research Workforce for Cloud Infrastructure Cybersecurity
March 18, 2024, Featured in Rutgers Research and Innovation: Ways Rutgers Is Shaping the AI Revolution
March 14, 2024, Featured in Rutgers- Camden News: Can AI Improve Public Safety?
Education
- Ph.D. in Engineering (Computer Science) from the Tennessee Tech University. (2015-2020)
- MS in Computer Science from the Tennessee Tech University. (2015-2018)
- BSc in Computer Science and Information Technology from the Islamic University of Technology. (2007-2010)
Activities
- Co-chair, FLAIRS-36 (Special Session: Explainability, Bias, and Trust), 2024
- Program Committee Member, XAI, 2025
- Program Committee Member, ACM SIGCSE TS,2023
- Program Committee Member, ACM SaT-CPS, 2023
- Program Committee Member, AIoTS, 2023
- Program Committee Member, Thirteenth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2023
- Program Committee Member, AAAI-MAKE Spring Symposium, 2022
- Program Committee Member, FLAIRS 35 – Special Track on Explainability, Bias, and Trust, 2022
- Program Committee Member, FLAIRS 35 – Special Track on Neural Networks and Data Mining, 2022
- Program Committee Member, AAAI-22 – Twelfth AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
- Program Committee Member, FLAIRS 34 – Neural Networks and Data Mining Special Track, 2021
Others
- University of Hartford: College of Arts and Science Outstanding Faculty Award, 2022
- Award: Student Travel Award, ACM SIGKDD, 2019
- GRA from College of Engineering grants recognizing Carnegie classification, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
- Award: Ivanhoe Fellowship, 2017
- Member, IEEE
- Member, AAAI
- President, Computer Science Graduate Club, 2018 - 2019
- Member, Computer Science Student Advisory Council, 2018 - 2019
Experience
- Assistant Professor, Rutgers University - Camden, (2023 - ): Current research interests include Explainable and Fair Artificial Intelligence for
Cybersecurity, Social Good, and Health Informatics. Leading Cybersecurity, Accountability,
Fairness, and Explainability (CAFÉ) Research Group at Rutgers.
- Assistant Professor, University of Hartford, (August, 2020 to August 2023): Worked on extending
the scope of explainable AI towards mitigating other pressing AI-related concerns such as fairness and transparency of decisions in different application areas.
- Graduate Research Assistant , Tennessee Tech University, (August 2018 to May, 2020): Worked on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) with a focus on uncovering and
incorporating useful domain knowledge from an application domain (e.g., Finance, Security)
that will enhance the explainability and interpretability of AI-based complex models.
- Advanced Short-Term Research Intern , Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), (Summer, 2018): Worked on
an automated and generalized malware detection technique from host logs.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Tennessee Tech University, (2015-2018): Worked on different research and
software development projects. Also, instructed some undergraduate labs (C++, Database).
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