FACULTY PROFILES

Sajedul Talukder

Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Office Building: Chemistry and Computer Science Building
Office Room: 3.0502
Phone: (915) 747-8819
Email: stalukder@utep.edu

Bio

Dr. Sajedul Talukder is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso and director of the Security and Privacy Enhanced Machine Learning (SUPREME) Lab. He is affiliated with UTEP’s Institute for Applied AI Innovation, the NSF IUCRC Center for Intelligent, Distributed, Embedded Applications and Systems, and the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions. His research focuses on security and privacy, trustworthy and adversarial AI, online abuse and deception, online social networks, cyber-physical systems, and AI-enabled cybersecurity for nuclear systems and infrastructure. Dr. Talukder has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications in leading venues such as ACM TSC, npj Artificial Intelligence, PoPETs/PETS, ICWSM, ICLR, AAAI Symposium, HyperText, CIKM, ASONAM, ACM SAC, ICMLA, ACM CHI Journals, ACM WebSci, COMPSAC, IEEE DSC, Nature Scientific Reports, and ANS Transactions. His research has received support from federal agencies and industry partners, including a $500,000 NRC grant for real-time cyber-threat monitoring; a $157,888 solo-PI NSF CISE CRII Award under the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program for defending against connection attacks in social networks; a $99,102 NIST-sponsored IMEC Award for industrial IoT cybersecurity integration; and an IBM Quantum–IIDAI grant. His work has received extensive coverage from national, regional, and international news outlets, including Yahoo, MSN, NBC, CBS, KFOX, KMOV, and Sage Research Methods. He is a member of IEEE and the American Nuclear Society and a lifetime ACM member. He has mentored more than 40 students and teachers and was recognized as a UTEP Pioneering Researcher in 2026 for his contributions to trustworthy and adversary-resilient AI and cybersecurity. He also received UTEP’s 2025 Student Choice High Impact and Innovative Teaching Award, the university’s only institution-wide teaching award selected entirely by students. His earlier honors include nominations for the Rising Star Faculty Award in 2024, Southern Illinois University’s University-Level Early Career Faculty Excellence Award in 2022 and 2024, and PennWest’s Scholar of the Year Award in 2020.

Awards and Honors

Pioneering Researcher Award - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (01/28/2026)
Student Choice High Impact and Innovative Teaching (HIIT) Award, UTEP - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (11/05/2025)

Education

Ph D in Computer Science, Florida International University (2019)
MS in Computer Science, Florida International University (2018)
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) (2014)

Publications

Agent-Fence: Mapping Security Vulnerabilities Across Deep Research Agents (2026), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Yoonpyo Lee, Jay Yoo, Tanzim Ahad, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Agentic physical AI toward a domain-specific foundation model for energy systems: a case study on nuclear reactor control npj Artificial Intelligence (2026), Yoon P. Lee, Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Diab Abueidda, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed B. Alam.
AI-in-the-Loop: Privacy Preserving Real-Time Scam Detection and Conversational Scambaiting by Leveraging LLMs and Federated Learning (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Benchmarking Security Risk Detection and Verification in Open Agentic Skill Ecosystems arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.00925 (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Zhuoran Lu, Sajedul Talukder, Nan Jiang.
Data-Centric Strategies for Enhancing Surrogate Reliability Under Input Uncertainty Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Enabling Domain-Specific Foundation Models for Advanced Reactors via Federated Multi-Modal Digital Twins Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Jay P. Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Federated Learning with LLM Chatbots and Lightweight Cryptography for Secure Operations in Small Modular Reactors Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Foundation Model-Aware Observers for Secure Digital Twin Monitoring of Advanced Reactor Systems Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Jay P. Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Gradient-Free Continual Learning in Spiking Neural Networks via Inter-Spike Interval Regularization arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16496 (2026), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Souvik Chakraborty, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
HALLPERM: Exposing the Safety Illusion in LLM Tool Use via Implicit Privilege Escalation and Semantic Risk (2026), Md J. Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Yoonpyo Lee, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
LAMDA: A Longitudinal Android Malware Benchmark for Concept Drift Analysis (2026), Md A. Haque, Ismail Hossain, Md M. Kamol, Md J. Alam, Suresh K. Amalapuram, Sajedul Talukder, Mohammad S. Rahman.
Licensable \& Deployable AI for Nuclear Digital Twins: A Post-Hoc Framework for Safety-Critical Physical AI Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Kazuma Kobayashi, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed B. Alam.
Neuromorphic Continual Learning for Sequential Deployment of Nuclear Plant Monitoring Systems arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18611 (2026), Samrendra Roy, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Quantum-Safe Authentication and Command Integrity for Robotic Fleets in Operation and Maintenance using Homomorphic Encryption Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Semantic Intent Fragmentation: A Single-Shot Compositional Attack on Multi-Agent AI Pipelines (2026), Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sai Puppala, Yoonpyo Lee, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
SkillVetBench: LLM-as-Judge for Multi-Dimensional Security Risk Evaluation in Open-Source LLM Agent Skills arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.15899 (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Sajedul Talukder.
The Art of the Jailbreak: Formulating Jailbreak Attacks for LLM Security Beyond Binary Scoring arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09225 (2026), Ismail Hossain, Tanzim Ahad, Md J. Alam, Sai Puppala, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
The Misattribution Gap: When Memory Poisoning Looks Like Model Failure in Agentic AI Systems arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22842 (2026), Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sai Puppala, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Virtual Sensing for Dynamic Systems: Enabling Digital Twin--Driven Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Monitoring for Advanced Reactors Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Kazuma Kobayashi, Sai Puppala, Jay P. Yoo, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
When Safety Geometry Collapses: Fine-Tuning Vulnerabilities in Agentic Guard Models (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Jannatul Ferdaus, Md J. Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Yoonpyo Lee, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
A comprehensive survey of federated learning for edge AI: Recent trends and future directions (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Jahangir Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Sajedul Talukder.
A Privacy-Aware Cyber Attack Detection Framework for Advanced Reactors Using Data Fusion and Quantum Deep Learning American Nuclear Society (2025), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Agentic physical AI toward a domain-specific foundation model for nuclear reactor control arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23292 (2025), Yoonpyo Lee, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed B. Alam.
Beyond Transformers Leveraging Large Language Models and Encoder-Decoder Architectures for Emotion Detection in Low-Resource Language (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Comprehensive Privacy Risk Assessment in Social Networks Using User Attributes Social Graphs and Text Analysis ACM (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
EVOLVE-X: Embedding Fusion and Language Prompting for User Evolution Forecasting on Social Media arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16847 (2025), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Foundation Models for Dynamic Nuclear Systems: Energy-Efficient Surrogates via Deep Operator Learning Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2025), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Souvik Chakraborty, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Harnessing Quantum Algorithms in Nuclear Engineering (2025), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Improving Motor Reliability for Nuclear Systems by Sensorless Temperature Estimation (2025), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Intelligent Algorithms for Soft Sensing: Current Trends and Future Prospects for Real-Time Digital Twin Systems (2025), Kazuma Kobayashi, Farid Ahmed, Samrendra Roy, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
LLM-Guided Dynamic-UMAP for Personalized Federated Graph Learning (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Sajedul Talukder.
LLM-Powered Chatbot for Safety Compliance Assistance in Advance Reactors American Nuclear Society (2025), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Kazuma Kobayashi, Samrendra Roy, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
LLMs Against Digital Deviance: Scalable Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource and Code-Mixed Social Media Springer (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Optimus-Q: Utilizing Federated Learning in Adaptive Robots for Intelligent Advanced Reactor Operations through Quantum Cryptography American Nuclear Society (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Kazuma Kobayashi, Samrendra Roy, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Privacy Control in Social Networks: Integrating Behavioral Patterns and Content Sensitivity for Audience Recommendation Springer (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Proactive Cybersecurity Framework for Nuclear Power Plants Using Quantum Large Language Models (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Kazuma Kobayashi, Samrendra Roy, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Real-Time Personalized Content Adaptation through Matrix Factorization and Context-Aware Federated Learning Springer (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Secure Anomaly Detection in Advanced Reactor through Quantum Federated Learning with Advanced Cryptography American Nuclear Society (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Kazuma Kobayashi, Samrendra Roy, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Securing SDN-Based Advanced Reactors Against DDoS Attacks Using Quantum-Inspired Ensemble Models (2025), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Kazuma Kobayashi, Samrendra Roy, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Sequential Deep Operator Network for Time-Series Nuclear System Monitoring (2025), Kazuma Kobayashi, Farid Ahmed, Samrendra Roy, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
SocialRec: User Activity Based Post Weighted Dynamic Personalized Post Recommendation System in Social Media Springer (2025), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Spatiotemporal Full-Field Reconstruction through Virtual Sensing for Reactor System Monitoring Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2025), Jay P. Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Theoretical Foundations of Localized Perturbation Sensitivity in Real-Time Surrogates for Digital Twins Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2025), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Souvik Chakraborty, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Toward Empathetic AI: Neural-Symbolic LLMs for Emotionally Aligned Conversations Springer (2025), Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Variational Gaussian Mixture Manifold Models for Client-Specific Federated Personalization arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10521 (2025), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
4WHContext: A Context Based Hate Speech Detection Framework From Social Media Posts (2024), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
A Visual Approach to Tracking Emotional Sentiment Dynamics in Social Network Commentaries (2024), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Zahidur Talukder.
Adaptive Machine Learning-Based Threat Intelligence in Nuclear Facilities (AML-TIN): A Framework for Enhanced Cybersecurity in Nuclear Computing Environments Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Alaa M. Alotaibi, Farid Ahmed, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Advancements in Multimodal Social Media Post Summarization: Integrating GPT-4 for Enhanced Understanding (2024), Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Bangla Emotion Detection Dataset With An Extended Taxonomy And Its Evaluation (2024), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Combating Echo Chambers In Online Social Network By Increasing Content Diversity In Recommendation (2024), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
ContextGPT: Predictive Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant with Contextually-Informed Situational Understanding Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Raisa B. Hossain, Farid Ahmed, Jahangir Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Distributed Threat Intelligence at the Edge Devices: A Large Language Model-Driven Approach arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08755 (2024), Syed M. Hasan, Alaa M. Alotaibi, Sajedul Talukder, Abdur R. Shahid.
Distributed Threat Intelligence at the Edge Devices: A Large Language Model-Driven Approach (2024), Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Alaa M. Alotaibi, Sajedul Talukder, Abdur R. Shahid.
Enhancing OT Security in Advanced Reactors: Microsegmentation and Zero-Trust Strategies Against Emerging Cyber Threats Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Kazuma Kobayashi, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
Enhancing the Cybersecurity of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants through Generative AI and Large Language Models Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Raisa B. Hossain, Ismail Hossain, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
EVOLVE: Predicting User Evolution and Network Dynamics in Social Media Using Fine-Tuned GPT-like Model (2024), Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
FLASH: Federated Learning-Based LLMs for Advanced Query Processing in Social Networks through RAG (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Generative AI like ChatGPT in Blockchain Federated Learning: use cases, opportunities and future (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Jannatul Ferdaus, Mahedi Hasan, Sameera Pisupati, Shanmukh Mathukumilli.
Natural Language Processing for Predictive Maintenance in Nuclear Power Plant: Digital Twin Context Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Raisa B. Hossain, Ismail Hossain, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
SAFARI: Self-regulAted Clustered FederAted Learning in a HeteRogeneous EnvIronment (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
SCALE: Self-regulated Clustered federAted LEarning in a Homogeneous Environment (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Zahidur Talukder, Syed Bahauddin.
SCAN: A HealthCare Personalized ChatBot with Federated Learning Based GPT (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Jahangir Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Secure and Private Collaborative Anomaly Detection Framework for Advanced Reactors Using Federated Machine Learning Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2024), Sai Puppala, Farid Ahmed, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
SocFedGPT: Federated GPT-based Adaptive Content Filtering System Leveraging User Interactions in Social Networks (2024), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
SocialGuard: Bangla Text-Based Gender Identification for Enhancing Integrity in Social Networks (2024), Jahangir Alam, Sultan Ahmed, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Zahidur Talukder, Sajedul Talukder.
SocialRec: User Activity Based Post Weighted Dynamic Personalized Post Recommendation System in Social Media (2024), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Through Particle Swarm Optimization and Knowledge Distillation (2024), Saika Zaman, Sajedul Talukder, Md Z. Hossain, Sai M. Puppala, Ahmed Imteaj.
Active Learning on Medical Image Springer (2023), Angona Biswas, MD Nasim, Md S. Ali, Ismail Hossain, Dr M. Ullah, Sajedul Talukder.
Adversarial AI threats on digitization of Nuclear Power Plants Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 129 1 (2023), Kishor D. Gupta, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.
AI-based Detection and Defense Against Cyberattacks in Distributed Energy Resources Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States) (2023), Palash K. Bhowmik, Syed Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Piyush Sabharwall.
AutoML Systems For Medical Imaging Springer (2023), Tasmia T. Jidney, Angona Biswas, MD Nasim, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Mofazzal Hossain, Dr M. Ullah.
Blockchain-Integrated Secure Framework for Enhanced E-Government Services Springer (2023), Sajedul Talukder, Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala.
Case Studies on X-Ray Imaging, MRI and Nuclear Imaging Springer (2023), Shuvra Sarker, Angona Biswas, MD Nasim, Md S. Ali, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Challenges and Opportunities of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Control System (ICS) (2023), Sunzida Siddique, Rakib H. Rifat, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam, Kishor D. Gupta.
Collaborative Differentially Private Federated Learning Framework for the Prediction of Diabetic Retinopathy (2023), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Combating Identity Attacks in Online Social Networks: A Multi-Layered Framework Using Zero-Knowledge Proof and Permissioned Blockchain (2023), Md J. Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Data Driven Approaches on Medical Imaging Springer (2023), Bin Zheng, Stefan Andrei, Md K. Sarker, Kishor D. Gupta.
Developing an AI-Powered Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Framework for Malware Prevention in Nuclear Power Plants Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 129 1 (2023), Sajedul Talukder, Palash K. Bhowmik, Piyush Sabharwall, Syed B. Alam.
Flid: Intrusion attack and defense mechanism for federated learning empowered connected autonomous vehicles (cavs) application (2023), Md Z. Hossain, Ahmed Imteaj, Saika Zaman, Abdur R. Shahid, Sajedul Talukder, M H. Amini.
Generative Adversarial Networks for Data Augmentation Springer (2023), Angona Biswas, MD Nasim, Al Imran, Anika T. Sejuty, Fabliha Fairooz, Sai Puppala, Sajedul Talukder.
Introduction to Medical Imaging Informatics Springer (2023), Md Z. Jahangir, Ruksat Hossain, Riadul Islam, MD Nasim, Md M. Haque, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis for Predicting Environmental Lead Toxicity in Children at the ZIP Code Level (2023), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Sajedul Talukder.
Monitoring Dynamics of Emotional Sentiment in Social Network Commentaries (2023), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Nuclear-Integrated Energy Units: Advancing Cybersecurity for Resilient Energy Systems INL/CON-23-72960-Rev000 (2023), Palash K. Bhowmik, Syed Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Piyush Sabharwall.
Online learning for X-ray, CT or MRI Springer (2023), Mosabbir Bhuiyan, MD Nasim, Sarwar Saif, Dr K. Gupta, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Protecting Location Privacy in Blockchain-Based Mobile Internet of Things Springer International Publishing (2023), Abdur R. Shahid, Niki Pissinou, Sajedul Talukder.
Towards Addressing Identity Deception in Social Media using Bangla Text-Based Gender Identification (2023), Sultan Ahmed, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Ismail Hossain.
Utilizing Blockchain for Safeguarding IoT-Based Robotic Networks from Spoofing Attacks Springer (2023), Tauhidul Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
A Novel Hierarchical Federated Learning with Self-Regulated Decentralized Clustering Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 38 3 (2022), Sajedul Talukder, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala.
AiPsych: A Mobile Application-Based Artificial Psychiatrist for Predicting Mental Illness and Recovery Suggestions Among Students International Journal of Artificial Intelligence \& Applications 13 2 (2022), Faruk Hossen, Sajedul Talukder, Refatul Fahad.
Artificial intelligence applications for health care CRC Press (2022), Mitul K. Ahirwal, Narendra D. Londhe, Anil Kumar.
CovFilter: a low-cost portable device for the prediction of COVID-19 for resource-constrained rural communities International Journal of Artificial Intelligence \& Applications 13 2 (2022), Sajedul Talukder, Faruk Hossen.
Federated Learning-based Contraband Detection within Airport Baggage X-Rays Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 38 3 (2022), Sajedul Talukder, Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain.
GPU-based medical image segmentation: Brain MRI analysis using 3d slicer CRC Press (2022), Sajedul Talukder.
Prediction of Childhood and Pregnancy Lead Poisoning Using Deep Learning Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 38 3 (2022), Sajedul Talukder, Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain.
Principles and Practice of Blockchains Springer Nature (2022), Kevin Daimi, Ioanna Dionysiou, Nour El Madhoun.
Towards Federated Learning-based Contraband Detection within Airport Baggage X-Rays (2022), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Sajedul Talukder.
User awareness and defenses against sockpuppet friend invitations in Facebook (2022), Sajedul Talukder, Nestor Hernandez, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Bogdan Carbunar.
A novel index-based decision support toolkit for safe reopening following a generalized lockdown in low and middle-income countries Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021), Abu S. Shonchoy, Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Sajedul Talukder, Nasar U. Ahmed, Rajiv Chowdhury.
A study of differentially private machine learning in healthcare (2021), Abdur R. Shahid, Saiedul Talukder.
A Template for Alternative Proof of Work for Cryptocurrencies (2021), Sajedul Talukder, Riley Vaughn.
Analyzing brain tumor MRI to demonstrate GPU-based medical image segmentation Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 37 3 (2021), Sajedul Talukder, Neil Noyes.
Applying local differential privacy in handwriting recognition-based systems: faculty poster abstract Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 37 3 (2021), Sajedul Talukder, Abdur R. Shahid.
Enhancing alternative proof of work for cryptocurrencies using machine learning: faculty poster abstract Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 37 3 (2021), Sajedul Talukder, Abdur R. Shahid.
Evaluating machine learning models for handwriting recognition-based systems under local differential privacy (2021), Abdur R. Shahid, Sajedul Talukder.
Evaluation of privacy-preserving Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes classifiers in healthcare Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 37 3 (2021), Abdur R. Shahid, Sajedul Talukder.
Privacy-preserving activity recognition from sensor data: faculty poster abstract Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 37 3 (2021), Abdur R. Shahid, Sajedul Talukder.
Safe Reopening Following Generalized Lockdowns: A Strategy Based on Evidence from 24 Worldwide Countries (2021), Abu S. Shonchoy, Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Sajedul Talukder, Nasar U. Ahmed, Rajiv Chowdhury.

Presentations

Digital Twin Approach for Effective Prognostic and Health Managements for Nuclear Systems (2024), Volume Expert Panelist, American Nuclear Society (ANS) Conference, Sajedul Talukder.
Identification and Countermeasures for Abusive Friend Attacks in Social Media Platforms (2024), Volume Department of Computer Science, Ohio University, OH, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Let's Talk Research: Early career SIUC faculty on federal funding opportunities (2024), Volume SIUC Research Workshop and Panel Discussion, Sajedul Talukder.
Safeguarding Against Abusive Friend Attacks in Online Social Networks: Detection and Defense Strategies (2024), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Artificial Intelligence Supported Abusive Friend Attacks Detection and Mitigation in Online Social Networks (2023), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, TX, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Cybersecurity Strategies for Abusive Friend Attacks in Online Social Networks: Detection and Defense (2023), Volume Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, TX, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Secure and Private Collaborative Abuse Detection Framework in Online Social Networks (2023), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
A Study of Connection Abuse Perception in Online Social Networks (2022), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
AbuSniff: An Automated Social Network Abuse Detection System (2021), Volume Department of Computer Science, Sonoma State University, CA, USA, Sajedul Talukder.

Grants

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Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2026	CS 4316 - Computer Networks	15666	Syllabus
Fall 2026	CS 5313 - Computer Networks	15667	Syllabus
Fall 2026	CS 6399 - Dissertation	18565
Fall 2026	CS 6194 - Doctoral Research	18518
Fall 2026	CS 6294 - Doctoral Research	16678
Fall 2026	CS 6394 - Doctoral Research	18243
Fall 2026	CS 6694 - Doctoral Research	16679
Fall 2026	CS 5391 - Individual Studies	16842

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Spring 2026	CS 4316 - Computer Networks	21623	Syllabus
Spring 2026	CS 5313 - Computer Networks	23850	Syllabus
Spring 2026	CS 6398 - Dissertation	28654
Spring 2026	CS 6294 - Doctoral Research	26829
Spring 2026	CS 6394 - Doctoral Research	28697
Spring 2026	CS 6694 - Doctoral Research	26688
Fall 2025	CS 4316 - Computer Networks	16896	Syllabus
Fall 2025	CS 5313 - Computer Networks	16898	Syllabus
Fall 2025	CS 4371 - Computer Science Problems	18610
Fall 2025	CS 6294 - Doctoral Research	18409
Fall 2025	CS 6694 - Doctoral Research	18410
Fall 2025	CS 5391 - Individual Studies	18591
Spring 2025	CS 5352 - Computer Security	21027	Syllabus
Spring 2025	CS 6352 - Computer Security	26958	Syllabus
Spring 2025	CS 6294 - Doctoral Research	28390
Fall 2024	CS 5390 - Special Topic Computer Science	17723	Syllabus
Fall 2024	CS 4390 - Special Topics in Computer Sci	17722	Syllabus

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Spring 2026	CS 4316 - Computer Networks	21623	Evaluation
Spring 2026	CS 5313 - Computer Networks	23850	Evaluation
Fall 2025	CS 4316 - Computer Networks	16896	Evaluation
Fall 2025	CS 5313 - Computer Networks	16898	Evaluation
Spring 2025	CS 5352 - Computer Security	21027	Evaluation
Spring 2025	CS 6352 - Computer Security	26958	Evaluation
Fall 2024	CS 5390 - Special Topic Computer Science	17723	Evaluation
Fall 2024	CS 4390 - Special Topics in Computer Sci	17722	Evaluation

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Awards and Honors

Pioneering Researcher Award - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (01/28/2026)
Student Choice High Impact and Innovative Teaching (HIIT) Award, UTEP - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (11/05/2025)

Ph D in Computer Science, Florida International University (2019)
MS in Computer Science, Florida International University (2018)
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) (2014)

Publications

Agent-Fence: Mapping Security Vulnerabilities Across Deep Research Agents (2026), Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md J. Alam, Yoonpyo Lee, Jay Yoo, Tanzim Ahad, Syed B. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Agentic physical AI toward a domain-specific foundation model for energy systems: a case study on nuclear reactor control npj Artificial Intelligence (2026), Yoon P. Lee, Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Diab Abueidda, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed B. Alam.
AI-in-the-Loop: Privacy Preserving Real-Time Scam Detection and Conversational Scambaiting by Leveraging LLMs and Federated Learning (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md J. Alam, Sajedul Talukder.
Benchmarking Security Risk Detection and Verification in Open Agentic Skill Ecosystems arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.00925 (2026), Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Zhuoran Lu, Sajedul Talukder, Nan Jiang.
Data-Centric Strategies for Enhancing Surrogate Reliability Under Input Uncertainty Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (2026), Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Syed B. Alam.

Presentations

Digital Twin Approach for Effective Prognostic and Health Managements for Nuclear Systems (2024), Volume Expert Panelist, American Nuclear Society (ANS) Conference, Sajedul Talukder.
Identification and Countermeasures for Abusive Friend Attacks in Social Media Platforms (2024), Volume Department of Computer Science, Ohio University, OH, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Let's Talk Research: Early career SIUC faculty on federal funding opportunities (2024), Volume SIUC Research Workshop and Panel Discussion, Sajedul Talukder.
Safeguarding Against Abusive Friend Attacks in Online Social Networks: Detection and Defense Strategies (2024), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA, Sajedul Talukder.
Artificial Intelligence Supported Abusive Friend Attacks Detection and Mitigation in Online Social Networks (2023), Volume Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas, TX, USA, Sajedul Talukder.

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