Abdullah AL-Mamun, Ph.D.

- Director, SHARC Lab

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Computer and Cyber Science, Augusta University, and director of the Scalable, High-performance AI and Reliable Computing (SHARC) Laboratory. I attained my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Dongfang Zhao. Prior to relocating to the United States, I earned my double-degree M.Sc. in Computer Science jointly from the RWTH Aachen University and the University of Trento under the European Master in Informatics (EUMI) double-degree program sponsored by Erasmus Mundus scholarship.

The SHARC lab publishes research findings at top-tier venues such as SC, ICDE, IPDPS, DSN, and ICPP.

Contact: hpctalk@gmail.com

Research

High-performance Blockchain

Resource-efficient HPC

High-Performance & Reliable AI



Students (Degree Enrolled)

  • Amena Farha (Ph.D.)
  • Mohsin Rasheed (Ph.D.)
  • Abdullah Melhem (Ph.D., Co-advise)
  • Ramesh Adhikari (Ph.D., Co-advise)
  • Maksuda Rabeya (Ph.D., Co-advise)

Selected Publications

  • Reinventing CI/CD for Collaborative Sciences: A Blockchain-Integrated Decentralized Middleware for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Workflows. (IEEE eScience'25)
  • ZTP: A Scalable and Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Blockchain via Scale-Free Quorums and Geometric Fragmentation. (ICPP'25)
  • Adversary-Resilient Clustered Federated Learning for Secure AI-Driven Healthcare Data Analytics. (IEEE IWCMC'25)
  • ECHAIN: Securing Electronic Device Provenance through Privacy-Preserving Consortium Blockchains. (IEEE DSN'23)
  • DEAN: A Lightweight and Resource-efficient Blockchain Protocol for Reliable Edge Computing. (IEEE IPDPS'22)
  • BAASH: Lightweight, Efficient, and Reliable Blockchain-As-A-Service for HPC Systems. (ACM/IEEE SC'21)
  • SciChain: Blockchain-enabled Lightweight and Efficient Data Provenance for Reproducible Scientific Computing. (IEEE ICDE'21)
  • Reflector: a fine-grained I/O tracker for HPC systems. (ACM PPoPP'20)
  • Dean: A blockchain-inspired consensus protocol enabling trustworthy edge computing. (NDSS'20)
  • HPChain: An MPI-Based Blockchain Framework for Data Fidelity in High-Performance Computing Systems. (ACM/IEEE SC'19)
  • BlockLite: Toward accurate and efficient emulation of public blockchains in the cloud. (CLOUD'19)
  • In-memory blockchain: Toward efficient and trustworthy data provenance for HPC systems. (IEEE BigData'18)
  • Toward a scalable analysis of multidimensional scientific data: A case study of electrode arrays.(IEEE BigData'18)
  • DVM: Scaling out Virtual Memory in User Space. (ICPP'18)
  • Toward Performant and Energy-efficient Queries in Three-tier Wireless Sensor Networks. (ICPP'18)

Teaching


Spring: CSCI 3371/5371: Low-level Programming Language. Graduate & Undergraduate.

Fall: CSCI-7585: High-Performance Computing. Graduate

In the past, I have been the instructor of the following courses:

  • CSCI 3371/5371: Low-level Programming Language. Graduate & undergraduate.
  • CSCI 7580: Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, graduate.
  • Database Management Systems, undergraduate.
  • Operating Systems, undergraduate.

Service

Assistant Professor

Augusta University
September 2022 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Nevada, Reno
January 2018 - June 2022

Teaching Assistant

University of Nevada, Reno
August 2018 - June 2022

Summer Intern

MokaBlox LLC
May 2020 - August 2020

Summer Intern

NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
May 2019 - August 2019

Senior Lecturer

Daffodil International University
September 2015 - December 2017

Lecturer

American International University-Bangladesh
August 2014 - August 2015

Software Engineer

Prime Tech Solutions Ltd.
September 2008 - July 2010

Other Service

  • Advisory Committee Member, AU HPC-PC Core, Augusta University ( 2025 - present).
  • Advisor, ACM Programming SIG (Special Interest Group), SCCS, Augusta University ( 2023 - present).
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA 2026).
  • Reviewer, IEEE SouthEastCon 2026.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Internet of Things (IEEE IoT) ( Jan'22 - present).
  • Reviewer, Journal of Big Data ( Jan'22 - present).
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics ( Sep'23 - present).
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Cooperative Information System (IJCIS) ( Mar'18 - present).
  • Program Committee, IEEE IPDPS'23.
  • Program Committee. International Conference of Modern Systems Engineering Solutions (MODERN SYSTEMS, SocSys Congress) (Feb'22 - present)
  • Program Committee. Advances on Core Technologies and Applications (CORETA) (April'22 - present)
  • External Reviewer, IEEE BigData'21.
  • External Reviewer, IEEE/ACM BDCAT'21.

Grants, Awards & Scholarships

Grants & Awards
  • NSF CRII – $165K (2024–2026)
  • Google Cloud Grant – $10K (2024–2026)
  • Start-up Grant – Augusta University
  • Outstanding Grad Student – UNR (’20, ’21)
  • Best Paper Award – Cloud’19
  • GSA Travel Awards – UNR (’18, ’19, ’22)
  • Premio De Merito – Univ. of Trento
  • Summa Cum Laude – AIUB
PhD Scholarships
  • University of Nevada, Reno – Accepted
  • Marie Curie Double Degree (UK, IT, BE, CN) – Not Accepted
  • Ryerson University, Canada – Not Accepted
  • University of Regina, Canada – Not Accepted
MSc Scholarships
  • EUMI Erasmus Mundus-Double Degree (Trento & RWTH) – Accepted
  • DMKM Erasmus Mundus, France – Not Accepted
  • Compagnia Di San Paolo – Torino – Not Accepted
  • Opera Universitaria – Trento – Not Accepted