Md Anwar Hossen Hi, it's Anwar, a Ph.D. student working in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. Currently working in the Software Analytics and Pervasive Parallelism Lab under Dr. Ali Jannesari's co-supervision and in The Real-Time Analytics of Transportation Data lab under the co-supervision of Professor Anuj Sharma. My Ph.D. research topic is optimizing performance and communication in heterogeneous federated and decentralized learning systems. I am working on adapting and improving the capabilities of foundation models in federated learning systems. [Biography] | [Research] | [Publications] | [Teaching] | [Services] | [Awards] | [Scholar] | [LinkedIn]

Biography

• PhD Student (2021/08~present)
  Computer Science
  Iowa State University, USA
  Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wensheng Zhang
  

• Master of Science (2014/11~2016/08)
  Computer Science and Engineering
  Jagannath University, Bangladesh
  

• Bachelor of Science (2010/01~2014/10)
  Computer Science and Engineering
  Jagannath University, Bangladesh
  

Research Interests

Research Areas:

• Artificial Intelligence: hierarchical federated learning and unlearning, distributed machine learning
• Data and Model Quality: incentive mechanism, data and model quality
• Differcial Privacy: multi-dimensional private information for incomplete game

Methodologies:

• Machine learning
• Mechanism design
• Modeling and optimization
• Game theory
• Mathematical analysis

Selected Publications

• Md Anwar Hossen*, Fatema Siddika*, Wensheng Zhang, ”Fair Allocation of Bandwidth At Edge Servers For Concurrent Federated Learning Processes”, (Submitted), 2023.

Teaching Experience

instructor: Assistant Professor (Study Leave) - (2016/01-2021/07), Daffodil Int. University

• Data Structure
• Computer Algorithms
• Discrete Maths
• Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant: Iowa State University

• ComS 228: Data Structure

Services

Organizing:

• Technical Sessions Organizer, Int Conf on Cyber Security and Computer Science (ICONCS)- 2020
• Chair, IEEE Student Branch, Jagannath University - 2017
• Mentor, IEEE Student Branch, Daffodil Int. University - 2019
• Mentor and Judge, Bangladesh National Hackathon, ICT Ministry - 2016

Awards and Honors

• Best Research Poster on Annual Research Day - ComS, Iowa State University - 2023
• Honorable Mention in ACM ICPC 2012 - Dhaka Regional Site