Dr. Sajedul Talukder
Dr. Sajedul Talukder
Assistant Professor
Director, Security and Privacy Enhanced Machine Learning Lab
Engineering A0407, School of Computing
Southern Illinois University
(618) 453-6059
sajedul.talukder@siu.edu
[Curriculum Vitae]
Witty Quote

“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices, and its money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.” – Kevin Mitnick

Honors, Awards and Grants
  • Funding agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Title: A Framework to Defend Against Sockpuppet Connection Requests in Social Networks
    Role: Dr. Sajedul Talukder (Sole PI)
    Amount: $157,888
    Duration: 4/1/2022-3/31/2024.
  • Funding Agency: Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC)
    Title: RAPID: A Testbed for Experimenting with Industrial IoT and Cybersecurity Integration in Small Manufacturing
    Role: Dr. Sajedul Talukder (co-PI)
    Amount: $99,102
    Duration: 6/1/2022-11/30/2022.
  • AAAI ICWSM travel award (2018)
    For publications in AAAI ICWSM 2018.
  • FIU GPSC travel award (2018)
    For publications in AAAI ICWSM 2018.
  • FIU SCIS travel award (2018)
    For publications in AAAI ICWSM 2018.
  • ACM WebSci SIGWEB travel award (2017)
    For publications in ACM WebSci 2017.
Honors, Awards and Grants
  • Scholar of the year nomination (2021)
    For outstanding scholarly activities at Edinboro University.
  • Dean's Merit List Award from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2013 - 2014)
    For excellent academic performance in senior undergraduate years.
  • SCIS Best Graduate Student in Research (2018)
    For outstanding research at FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences.
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship (2018)
    For outstanding academic performance at Florida International University.
  • Honorable Mention in Undergraduate Thesis Poster Competition, Department of CSE, BUET (2014)
    For Undergraduate Thesis Poster.
  • Best Paper Award, ICEEICT (2014)
    For the conference paper presented in ICEEICT.
  • Champion in EATL-Prothom Alo Apps Contest (2012)
    For being champion in Android Utilities Category.
  • President's Rover Scout Award (2009 - 2014)
    For scouting activities and community services.
  • Bangladesh Government Merit Scholarship, secondary and higher secondary public exams (2006 & 2008)
    For scoring top 1% among 2 million students.
  • Talent pool Scholarship (1999)
    For obtaining 1st position in the Primary Scholarship Examination, 1999.
Certificates
  • Certificate of Recognition (2013)
    For being Runner Up in hardware category, Inter University Project Show ’2013 organized during CSE Festival ’2013.
  • Certificate of Excellency (2011)
    For being Runner Up in software category, Intra Department Project Show ’2011 organized during CSE Festival ’2011.
  • Certificate of Participation (2011)
    For selected project in Intra Department Project Show ’2011, CSE, BUET.
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