Dr. Hafiz Imtiaz

Dr. Hafiz Imtiaz

Professor
Contact Information
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Major Area

Communication and Signal Processing (CSP)

Research Interests
  • Machine learning
  • Distributed optimization
  • Privacy preserving computation
  • Decentralized computation
Dr. Hafiz Imtiaz
Section-A: BAETE Instructed Information
Education Qualification
  • Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA 2020
  • M.Sc. Engg (EEE), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011
  • B.Sc. Engg (EEE), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009
Academic experience
  • Professor, Department of EEE, BUET, 01/2024 to present
  • Associate Professor, Department of EEE, BUET, 02/2021 to 01/2024
  • Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, BUET, 12/2011 to 02/2021
  • Lecturer, Department of EEE, BUET, 04/2009 to 12/2011
Non-academic experience
  • Graduate Assistant, Rutgers University, 09/2015 to 08/2020
  • Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, 09/2014 to 08/2015
Fellowship/membership of academic bodies and professional organizations
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Honors and awards
  • Second Runner-up in Signal Processing Cup (SP Cup), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (April 2022)
  • ECE Graduate Program Academic Achievement Award, Department of ECE, Rutgers University (2020)
  • PhD Research Excellence Award, Department of ECE, Rutgers University (2019)
  • Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Academy Fellowship, Center for Organizational Leadership, Rutgers University (2019)
  • Conference Travel Grant, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University for attending IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2018)
  • TA/GA Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University (2018)
  • TA/GA Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University (2017)
  • PhD Research Excellence Award, Department of ECE, Rutgers University (2016)
  • Conference Travel Grant, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for attending IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc. (ICASSP) (2016)
  • TA/GA Professional Development Fund Award, Rutgers University (2016)
List of significant publications and presentations in the five most recent years

Journal

a. Nadira Pervin, Tahsina Farah Sanam, and Hafiz Imtiaz, “Privacy Preserving Human Activity Recognition using Principal Component Based Wavelet CNN”, Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing, September 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-024-03535-0. IF: 2.0. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

b. Ihtesham Ibn Malek, Hafiz Imtiaz and Samia Subrina, “Machine Learning Modeling for Performance Enhancement of Perovskite Solar Cell with CNT as both Hole Transport Layer and Back Contact”, Elsevier Solar Energy, Vol. 278, Article. 112737, pp. 1-14, August 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2024.112737. IF: 6.0. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

c. Sohan Salahuddin Mugdho and Hafiz Imtiaz, “Privacy-Preserving Matrix Factorization for Recommendation System using Gaussian Mechanism”, Springer International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-024-02276-3. IF: 3.6. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

d. Tasnim Nishat Islam, and Hafiz Imtiaz, “A Robust Neural Network for Privacy-preserving Heart Rate Estimation in Remote Healthcare Systems”, Elsevier Healthcare Analytics, Vol. 5, June 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.health.2024.100329. Google Scholar Citations: 1. IF: 1.9. Indexed in: Scopus, DOAJ.

e. Swapnil Saha, and Hafiz Imtiaz, "Privacy-preserving Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Outliers." ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, November 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3632961. IF: 4.4. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

f. Ishtiaque A. Showmik, Tahsina Farah Sanam and Hafiz Imtiaz, “Human Activity Recognition from Wi-Fi CSI Data Using Principal Component-Based Wavelet CNN”, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing. Vol. 138, April 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2023.104056. Google Scholar Citations: 7. IF: 2.92. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

g. Hafiz Imtiaz, Jafar Mohammadi, Rogers Silva, Bradley Baker, Sergey M Plis, Anand D Sarwate, Vince D Calhoun, “A Correlated Noise-Assisted Decentralized Differentially Private Estimation Protocol, and its Application to fMRI Source Separation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 69, pages. 6355 – 6370, Nov. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2021.3126546. Google Scholar Citations: 5. IF: 5.4. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

h. Naima Tasnim, Jafar Mohammadi, Anand D. Sarwate, and Hafiz Imtiaz, "Approximating Functions with Approximate Privacy for Applications in Signal Estimation and Learning." Entropy Information-Theoretic Privacy in Retrieval, Computing, and Learning, May 2023, Vol. 25, No. 5:825. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/e25050825. Google Scholar Citations: 1. IF: 2.74. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus.

i. Gazula, Harshvardhan, Ross Kelly, Javier Romero, Eric Verner, Bradley T. Baker, Rogers F. Silva, Hafiz Imtiaz et al. “COINSTAC: Collaborative Informatics and Neuroimaging Suite Toolkit for Anonymous Computation.” Journal of Open-Source Software, Vol. 5, no. 54 (2020): 2166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02166. Google Scholar Citations: 9. IF: 5.2. Indexed in: SCI, Clarivate Analytics.

Conference

a. Nur Mohammad Sarwar Bari, and Hafiz Imtiaz, "Empirical Analysis of the Privacy-Utility Trade-off of Classification Algorithms Under Differential Privacy", In proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, December 2023. https://iccit.org.bd/2023/

b. Ishtiaque A. Showmik, Tahsina Farah Sanam, and Hafiz Imtiaz, "DCT-Based Feature Extraction for Human Activity Recognition using WiFi Channel State Information Data", In proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 2023. pp. 1129-1133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCON58879.2023.10322339

c. Faiaz Rahman, Rafee Zunaied Tanna, Umme Habiba, Rizwan Shaikh, Zahidur Rahman, and Hafiz Imtiaz, “Cyber Threat Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms on Heterogeneous MiniVHS-22 Dataset”, In proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), December 2022. pp. 866-869. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCIT57492.2022.10055036. Google Scholar Citations: 1.

List of Professional Consultancy and Sponsored Research activities in the five most recent years

Consultancy

  • Consultancy service for Performance Audit of Generation, Transmission and Distribution Units of Power Sector Entities for FY 2022-23 for Power Division, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh (2024)
  • Consultancy service for feasibility study of establishing an ITU conformant state of the art Testing Center for Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Government of Bangladesh (2023)
  • Consultancy service on grid impact study of 100MW solar PV power plant for Dynamic Sun Energy (Pvt.) Ltd (2023)
  • Consultancy service on determination of input-output coefficient for refrigerator component for Orion Home Appliances Ltd. (2022)
  • Consultancy service on SRO-70 certification for Unique Meghnaghat Power Limited (UMPL) (2022)
  • Consultancy service for feasibility study of modernization of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) incorporating AI and IoT based 4IR Technologies for Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh (2022)
  • Consultancy service for Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (DESCO) for establishing an underground substation (2022)
  • Consultancy services for several imported commercial products for Bangladesh Customs (2020 – 2023)
  • Consultancy service for feasibility study of establishing Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Network Security for Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Government of Bangladesh (2021)

Sponsored Research Projects

  • Co-Principle Investigator, Research Project on “Prediction of Electronic and Optical Properties of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys Using Machine Learning.”, Research and Innovation Center for Science and Engineering (RISE), BUET, Internal Research Grant (Application ID 2023-02-006), 2024-2025 20,00,000/- BDT.
Section-B Additional Information
Short Biography

Hafiz Imtiaz, Ph.D. is serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Hafiz earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey in 2020. He earned his first M.Sc. degree and his B.Sc. degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2011 and 2009, respectively. He earned his second M.Sc. degree from Rutgers University in 2017. During his time at Rutgers, Hafiz received ECE Graduate Program Academic Achievement Award in 2020 for his Ph.D. dissertation, ECE PhD Research Excellence Award in 2019 and 2016, Pre-Doctoral Leadership Development Academy Fellowship Award in 2019, School of Graduate Studies Conference Travel Award in 2018, TA/GA Professional Development Fund Award in 2018, 2017, and 2016, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Conference Travel Award in 2016. After completion of his Ph.D. degree, Hafiz returned to Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to rejoin his role as a faculty in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His primary area of research includes developing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms for decentralized data settings. More specifically, he focuses on matrix and tensor factorization problems, which are core components of many modern machine learning algorithms. His research group currently consists of 10 M.Sc. students and 1 Ph.D. student. He is also serving in several national committees as consultant and technical expert.

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Major Courses Offered:

Undergraduate

  • EEE 211 – Continuous Signals and Linear Systems

Postgraduate

  • EEE 6608 – Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
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