Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, PhD, SMIEEE

Associate Professor in Computer Science (Cybersecurity)
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University

Cybersecurity Faculty, Fordham Center for Cybersecurity (FCC) Director, DependSys Lab (Fordham Dependable and Secure System Lab) Member, Fordham Urban Consortium (Smart City)

Office & Contact:

  • Rose Hill Campus: JMH 334, 441 E Fordham Road, Bronx NY, 10458,   Phone: (718) 817- 0582;
  • Lincoln Center Campus: 113 W 60th St, Manhattan, NY 10023
  • Email: mbhuiyan3@fordham.edu, zakirulalam@gmail.com

    Research Interests
  • Cybersecurity & Privacy | Data-Driven Dependability
    • Data Trustworitness, Trustworthy AI/ML, Big Data, Cloud Computing
    • Networked and Distributed Sensing Systems, IoT/CPS
    • Application Trustworthiness: healthcare monitoring, event monitoring, structural health monitoring, and Wi-Fi Applications
    • Publications (250+)
  • ~100 SCI papers
    • 25+ ESI "Highly Cited papers" and 4 "Hot Papers" in Computer Sciences (as of 2020/01 and 2021/01)
    • 65+ JCR Q1 Papers
    • 60+ Prestigious IEEE/ACM transactions/Magazines
    • COMMAG, TDSC, TC, TPDS, TKDE, TII, TAAS, TOSN, CS, IoT-J, T-ITS, INS, JNCA, FGCS, JPDC, COMNET, TSUSC, TETC, TBD, CPS, COSE, COMM, and so on
    • SECON, INFOCOM, DSN, SRDS, DCOSS, MASS, PRDC, DASC, Sarnoff, TrustCom, HPCC, ISPA, EUC, and so on
    • 7 Best papers awards
    • Awards/Honors (25+):
  • ***** “Highly Cited Researcher” ***** One of the world’s most influential researchers (0.1%) across multi-disciplines, including computer science, by Web of Science
  • ***** “The Rising Star of Science in the World” ***** Ranked 81 in United States and 531 in the World by Research.com (2023, 2022)
  • One of Top 2% Scientists of the World (2020-2023) (By Stanford University's List)
  • Recognized 25"ESI Highly Cited Papers" in Computer Science field by WoS (as of 2020/05 and 2020/05)
  • Recognized 5 "Hot Papers" in Computer Science field by WoS (as of 2020/05 and 2020/05)
  • IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (2020)
  • Faculty Fellowship (2020)
  • Best Paper Award, DependSys 2019 (Springer)
  • IEEE Senior Member (2017)
  • IEEE TCSC Early Career Researcher (2016-2017)
  • IEEE Outstanding Service Award, 2019
  • IEEE Outstanding Leadership Awards, 2018, 2019
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE MASS 2016
    • Journal Editor/Guest Editor (25+):
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) , Associate Editor
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing (AIHC) Associate Editor
  • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) Associate Editor
  • Journal of Interconnection Networks • Advisory Board Member
  • Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Associate Editor
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM) , Lead Guest Editor
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) , Lead Guest Editor
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications , Lead Guest Editor [Call for Papers]
  • Future Generation Computer Systems, Lead Guest Editor [Call for Papers]
  • Information Sciences – Elsevier, Lead Guest Editor
  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Lead Guest | Associate Editor
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Lead Guest/Associate Editor
  • IEEE ACCESS , Associate Editor | Lead Guest Editor
    • Conference Organization (50+):
  • IEEE DASC 2024 (Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines), General Chair. [Call for Paper]
  • IEEE TrustCom 2023 (Exeter, UK), Program Chair.
  • AidTSP 2023 [IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Workshop] (New York, USA), Program Chair.
  • IEEE TrustCom 2022 (Wuhan, China), Program Chair.
  • IEEE DASC 2021 (Calgary, Canada), General Chair.
  • CAI 2021 (NY, USA). General Chair
  • IEEE ISPA 2021 (NY, USA). Program Chair
  • UbiSec 2021 (Guangzhou, China). OC Memberr
  • IEEE DASC 2020, IEEE iSCI 2020, IEEE iSCI 2019, BigTrust 2017, SCS 2017, General Chair/CoChair.
  • IEEE TrustCom 2020 (China), IEEE ICCCN 2020 (USA), SpaCC 2019 (USA), DependSys 2019 (China), IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 (China), IEEE I-SPAN 2018 (China), IEEE CPSCom-2019 (US), IEEE DASC 2017 (New Zealand) , ICACCI 2017 (India). Program Chair/CoChair
  • CyberSciTech 2017, IEEE CSCloud 2016, IEEE CPSCom 2017 (UK), GPC-2017 (italy), SGIoT 2017 (Canada), IEEE CIT 2016 (Finland). Workshop/Publicity CoChair
  • IEEE INFOCOM (2019, 2018), GlobeCom, WCNC, ICC, TrustCom. TPC memeber
  • IEEE HITC (Hyper-Intelligence Technical Committee), Planning Coordinator and Technical Board Member
    • Seminars/Panels/Keynotes/Talks (30+)
  • 2023 International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research, and Application, China, Keynote Speaker
  • EAI ICECI 2023 - 4th International Conference on Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security, China, Keynote Speaker
  • International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, Systems and Services for Internet of Everything (ITSS-IoE 2021), Yemen Keynote Speaker
  • International Conference on Emerging Technology in Computing, Communication and Electronics (ETCCE 2020), Dhaka, Keynote Speaker
  • IEEE iSCI 2018, Invited Speaker
  • IEEE UIC 2018, Panel Speaker
  • IEEE ISPA2017/IUCC2017, Keynote Speaker
  • SpaCCS 2017, Springer, Panelist
  • Invited Speaker at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Monash University Malaysia, Hunan University (China), Hunan University of Technology (China), Dhaka University (Bangladesh), Baoji University of Arts and Sciences (BUAS, China), Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Hunan University of Science & Technology (China), Southeast Univerity (Bangladesh), Beihang University (China), Arab Emirate University (UAE), Huaqiao University (China), University of Liberal Arts of Bangladesh, Hunan Normal University (China), University Malaysia Pahang (Malaysia), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Guangzhou University (China)
    • Selected 20 Publications:
  • Yang Xu, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Tian Wang, Xiaokang Zhou, Amit Kumar Singh, “C-FDRL: Context-Aware Privacy-Preserving Offloading Through Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning in Cloud-Enabled IoT,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) 2017 (Corresponding Author)[JCR Q1]
  • Zhaoyang Wang, Song Wang, Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jiping Xu, Yanzhu Hu, “Cooperative Location-Sensing Network Based on Vehicular Communication Security Against Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Systems (ITS), 2023(Corresponding Author)[JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan#, Hai Tao#, Md Arafatur Rahman, Tian Wang, Jie Wu, Sinan Q. Salih, Yafeng Li, and Thaier Hayajneh, “TrustData: Trustworthy and Secured Data Collection for Event Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical System,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2020 [JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, H. Tao, and A. Abdalla, M. Hassan, J. Jain, and T. Hayajneh, “Secured Data Collection with Hardware-based Ciphers for IoT-based Healthcare,” IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, 2019 [JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, G. Wang, J. Wu, and J. Cao “Dependable Structural Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems (TDSC), 2017 [SCI IF: 6.04, JCR Q1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper, As of Jan 2018]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, G. Wang, J. Cao, and J. Wu, “Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks with Fault-Tolerance for Structural Health Monitoring,” IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2015 [SCI IF:2.92, JCR Q1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper, As of Jan 2018]
  • G. Wang, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, J. Cao, and J. Wu, "Detecting Movements of a Target Using Face Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014. (Corresponding Author) [JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Sy-Yen Kuo, Damian Lyons, Zili Shao, “Dependability in Cyber-Physical Systems and Applications,” ACM Transaction on Cyber_physical Systems (TCPS), 2019
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, J. Wu, G. Wang, and M. Hassan, “e-Sampling: Event-Sensitive Autonomous Adaptive Sensing and Low-cost Monitoring in Networked Sensing Systems," ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2017. [SCI IF:2.13, JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jie Wu, Guojun Wang, Zhigang Chen, Jianer Chen, and Tian Wang, "Quality-Guaranteed and Event-Senstive Data Collection and Monitoring in Wireless Vibration Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2017 [SCI IF: 6.76, JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, G. Wang, J. Cao, and J. Wu, “Sensor Placement with Multiple Objectives for Structural Health Monitoring,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 10(4):1-45, 2014. [SCI IF: 2.19, JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, J. Wu, and G. Wang, "Sensing and Decision-making in Cyber-Physical Systems: The Case of Structural Health Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 12(6): 2103-2114, Dec. 2016 [SCI IF: 6.76, JCR Q1]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jie Wu, Gary M. Weiss, Thaier Hayajneh, Tian Wang, and Guojun Wang, "Event Detection through Differential Pattern Mining in Cyber-Physical Systems," IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Jun 2017
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jie Wu, Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Wenjun Jiang, and Mohammed Atiquzzaman, “Towards Cyber-Physical Systems Design for Structural Health Monitoring: Hurdles and Opportunities,” ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2017
  • Entao Luo, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan*, Guojun Wang, Md Arafatur Rahman, Jie Wu, and Mohammed Atiquzzaman, “PrivacyProtector: Privacy-Protected Patient Data Collection in IoT-based Healthcare Systems,” IEEE Communication Magazine (COMMAG), 56(2): 163-168, 2018 (Corresponding Author) [SCI IF: 10.45, JCR Q1]
  • Tian Wang, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Jie Wu, and Jiannong Cao, "Big Data Reduction for Smart City's Critical Infrastructural Health Monitoring," IEEE Communication Magazine (COMMAG), 2017 (Corresponding Author). [SCI IF: 10.45, JCR Q1] [ESI Highly Cited Paper, As of Jan 2018]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, “Secured Data Collection for a Cloud-Enabled Structural Health Monitoring System,” in Proc. of IEEE HPCC 2016
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, G. Wang, J. Cao, and J. Wu, "Energy and Bandwidth-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring High-Frequency Events," in Proc. IEEE SECON 2013
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, Wang Tian, Md. Arafatur Rahman, and Jie Wu, “Content-Centric Event-Insensitive Big Data Reduction in Internet of Things,” in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM 2017
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan and Jie Wu, “Trustworthy and Protected Data Collection for Event Detection Using Networked Sensing Systems,” in Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff 2016
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan and Jie Wu, "Event Detection through Differential Pattern Mining in Internet of Things," in Proc. of IEEE MASS 2016 [Best Paper Award].
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Guojun Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jie Wu, “Local Monitoring and Maintenance for Operational Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE ISPA 2013 [Best Paper Award]
  • Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jiannong Cao, Guojun Wang, and Xuefeng Liu, “Energy-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Structural Health Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE SRDS 2012

Bio:

Dr. Bhuiyan is currently a Tenured/Associate Professor of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Fordham University, NY City, USA. He is the Director of Dependable and Secure System Research (DependSys) Lab and is affiliated with Fordham Center for Cybersecurity. Prior to that, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Fordham University and Temple University, and Adjunct Professor at Harvard Univerity. His research focuses on cybersecurity, data-driven dependability, Trustworthy AI/ML, and Emerging CPS/IoT applications. Dr. Bhuiyan authored/co-authored over 250 publications including journal/transaction articles, conference proceedings, 10 book chapters, and 04 books. His publication appeared in many prestigious journals, including IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TITS, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TETC, IEEE IoT, ACM CS, ACM TAAS, ACM TOSN, INF, INS, JSA, JNCA, and conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE/IFIP DSN, IEEE SRDS, IEEE TrustCom, DCOSS, IEEE MASS, IEEE DASC, and so on.

Dr. Bhuiyan has served as an Associates Editor and Lead Guest editor for key journals including IEEE TII, ACM TOMM, ACM CPS, IEEE IoT-J, INS, FGCS, JNCA, JPDC, JSA, ComNet. He has been recognized as one of the -- “Highly Cited Researchers” --One of the world’s most influential researchers (0.1%) across multi-disciplines, including computer science, by Web of Science and as one of the -- “The Rising Star of Science” in the world. 25 of his research work have become the “ESI Highly Cited Papers” and 5 of them become “Hot Paper” in Computer Science fields. He has also served as the general chair, program chair, workshop chair, publicity chair, TPC member, and reviewer of various international journals/conferences, including IEEE DASC 2024, INFOCOM AidTSP workshop, IEEE TrustCom (2023, 2020), IEEE CSCloud 2022, IEEE iSCI 2021, and IEEE DependSys 2020. He has received 7 Best Paper Awards and the IEEE TCSC Early Career Researcher (2016-2017), the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (2018-2021), and Service Award (2028, 2019). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.