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"Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer."
Chris Gardner ~ The Pursuit of Happyness

Highly passionate about research, love sports!
My primary research interests are: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Human Computer Interaction, Data-Driven Security, Context Awareness and Natural Language Processing.

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Publications

1) Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Yigong Wang, Gbadebo Ayoade, Yang Gao, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, and Kangkook Jee, Advanced Persistent Threat Detection using Data Provenance and Metric Learning, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
2) Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Sadaf Md Halim, Yibo Hu, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Knowledge Mining in Cybersecurity: From Attack to Defense, IFIP Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2022)
3) Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Yigong Wang, Islam Md Shihabul, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Identifying Tactics of Advanced Persistent Threats with Limited Attack Traces, 17th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2021)

Received IDRBT Best Practice Paper Award

4) Gbadebo Ayoade, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Pracheta Sahoo, Yang Gao, Anmol Agarwal, Kangkook Jee, Latifur Khan, Anoop Singhal, "Evolving Advanced Persistent Threat Detection using Provenance Graph and Metric Learning," 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)
5) Nusrat Jahan Mozumder, Maitraye Das, Tanzima Hashem, Sharmin Afrose, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Towards Privacy-preserving Authenticated Disease Risk Queries, Journal of Information Processing, 2019, Volume 27, Pages 624-642, Released September 15, 2019
6) Maitraye Das, Nusrat Jahan Mozumder, Sharmin Afrose, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Tanzima Hashem, A Novel Secret Sharing Approach for Privacy-Preserving Authenticated Disease Risk Queries in Genomic Databases, In Proc. of 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018

COMPSAC 2018 acceptance rate was 24%. This paper has been awarded as 'Best Paper' in the conference.

Achievements

Internship at Microsoft, Bangladesh

Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Scholarship Recipient 2020, 2022
GHC Scholar, 2021
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Campus Ambassador (UT Dallas) 2022
Best Debater Award, Comilla Education Board, 2012
First Prize (Extempore), Comilla Education Board, 2012
Best Debater Award, National School Level Debate, 2010
Active President (2011), Interact District Organiztion-3280, Bangladesh

Programming Languages
&
Databases

C, C++, Java, Python,
C#, Oracle, MySQL

Software Frameworks
&
Development

Android, Laravel

Scripting
&
Analysis Tool

MatLab, R, Python, LaTeX,
HTML, PHP, Prolog

Hardware
&
Others

ATmega32, Raspberry Pi, Arduino Mega, Photoshop & Illustrator, CorelDraw

Work Experiences

The companies that I have worked for:

Junior Software Engineer at Reve Systems October 2017 - April 2018

Team: Android, Main Project: BubbleTone (application available at Google Play Store)

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering May 2018 - July 2019

Northern University Bangladesh (Banani Campus)

Teaching & Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering August 2019 - Present

The University of Texas at Dallas

My Education

PhD in Computer Science August 2019 - Present

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas

B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering Feb 2013 - Sep 2017

Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

H.S.C (Science) June 2010 - Auguest 2012

Comilla Victoria Govt. College, Comilla, Bangladesh.

S.S.C (Science) Jan 2008 - May 2010

Nawab Faizunnesa Govt. Girls High School, Comilla, Bangladesh.

Hobbies: Watching Sports & Movies, Playing Cricket & Table Tennis, Travelling

Looking for more? Have a look at my Curriculum Vitae!
CV

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Visit my office

ECSS 3.614, Big Data Analytics and Management Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080

Contact

+1-(469)-258-7686

KhandakarAshrafi.Akbar@utdallas.edu aninditaashrafi@gmail.com