Abdullah AL-Mamun, Ph.D.

- Director, HPSDC Lab

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Computer and Cyber Science, Augusta University, and director of the High Performance & Secure Data Computing Laboratory. I attained my Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno under the guidance 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 High-Performance and Secure Computing (HPSDC) lab publishes research findings at top conferences such as SC, ICDE, IPDPS, DSN, and NDSS.

Contact: aalmamun@people.unr.edu

Research

High-performance Blockchain

Resource-efficient HPC

Extreme-scale Data Management



Students

  • TBD
  • Amena Farha
  • Abdullah Melhem
  • Baiqiang Wang
  • Shivam Agarwal

Hiring!

Only for highly motivated Ph.D. students -- Please email me with your transcripts, GRE score, and representative publications (if any). I will definitely reply if I find your profile impressive.

Teaching


In Spring 2024, I am teaching CSCI-3371/5371: Low-level Programming Language.

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

  • 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

  • Advisor, ACM Programming SIG (Special Interest Group), SCCS, Augusta University ( 2023 - present).
  • 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.

Selected Publications

  • Toward Performant and Energy-Efficient Network Queries: A Parallel and Stateless Approach. (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Hindawi'23)
  • 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. International Conference on Parallel Processing. (ICPP'18)

Education

University of Nevada, Reno

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering
High Performance Computing

University of Trento,Italy & RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Joint M.Sc. in Computer Science (Double Degree)
Data,Media & Knowledge (University of Trento)
Media Informatics (RWTH Aachen)

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering (Summa Cum Laude-Gold Medal)

Grants, Awards & Scholarships

Grants & Awards

  • CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) - $165,000, 2024-2026, Awarded by NSF
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Cloud Computing Services Research Grant- $10,000, 2024-2026, Awarded by NSF
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship'20 & '21 - awarded by University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Best Paper Award - awarded by Cloud'19 Conference
  • GSA Travel Award'18, '19 & '22 - awarded by University of Nevada, Reno
  • Premio De Merito - awarded by University of Trento
  • Summa Cum Laude (Gold Medal) - awarded by American International University-Bangladesh

PhD. Scholarships

  • Accepted: University of Nevada, Reno
  • Not Accepted: Marie Curie Double Degree PhD Scholarship 2017, organized by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions jointly in UK, Italy, Belgium, China.
  • Not Accepted: Ryerson University, Canada. 2017
  • Not Accepted: University of Regina, Canada. 2017

MSc. Scholarships

  • Accepted: EUMI Double Degree Scholarship Under Erasmus Mundus Program.
  • Not Accepted: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Data Mining and Knowledge Management, France.
  • Not Accepted: Compagnia Di San Paolo Scholarship, Politecnico Di Torino, Torino, Italy.
  • Not Accepted: Opera Universiteria Scholarship, University of Trento, Italy.