Nazmul Kabir Sikder
Research Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Coastal Virginia (COVA)
About me
I am a Research Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University’s Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Coastal Virginia, where I explore emerging directions in cybersecurity. Previously, I was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech. My work spans AI assurance, machine learning for cyberattack detection, and securing cyber-physical systems, with deployments in critical infrastructure including water distribution and agricultural networks.
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PhD in Computer Engineering (Deep Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Optimization Techniques; Statistics in Research; AI Assurance Methods; Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure), 2024
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Arlington, VA
MS in Computer Engineering (Advanced Machine Learning; Network Architecture and Protocol; Cybersecurity and IoT; Applied Linear Systems), 2022
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Falls Church, VA
BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2015
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology — Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Security and Trustworthy AI
- Agentic AI
- LLMs
- CPS
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Core Collaborators
Feras A. Batarseh
Virginia Tech
Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech; Director, A3 (AI Assurance and Applications) Lab
Feras A. Batarseh is an Associate Professor with the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech (VT) and the Director of the A3 (AI Assurance and Applications) Lab. His research spans AI Assurance, Cyberbiosecurity, AI for Agriculture and Water, and Data-Driven Public Policy.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Assurance, Intelligent Water Systems, Cyberbiosecurity, Context and Causality, AI for Agricultural Policy
Research Partners
Akanksha Tyagi
University of Arkansas
MS Research Assistant — ML x Cybersecurity
MS student and research assistant building ML-driven frameworks for software vulnerability testing and infrastructure security, blending CPS security with transportation-focused reinforcement learning.
Research Interests: Cybersecurity (fuzzing and vulnerability detection), CPS security, Intelligent transportation systems, Generative modeling and optimization
Istiak Ahmed
Servopro IT
Business Analyst
Received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Previous work includes ‘An Efficient Computational Scheme for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables,’ focusing on the application of the method of characteristics for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations and developing compatible computational tools. Currently working at Servopro IT as a Business Data Analyst.
Research Interests: Data Science, Agentic AI Security, LLMs, Statistics
Rutba Aman
Primeasia University, Dhaka
Lecturer — Computer Science and Engineering
Academic and researcher in CSE focusing on privacy-aware intelligent systems, blending ML, NLP, and data mining for social networks and health informatics.
Research Interests: Social network privacy and de-anonymization, Machine learning and deep learning, Natural language processing and sentiment analysis, Data mining, Health informatics
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