Shakib Mahmud Dipto is a researcher studying adversarial robustness & federated learning.

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Building trustworthy, interpretable, and privacy-preserving machine learning systems for healthcare and beyond.

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Research Interests

Adversarial Attacks & Defenses

Investigating deep neural network vulnerabilities to adversarial perturbations. Designing robust training procedures and certified defenses for safety-critical deployments in medical imaging.

Robustness

Federated Learning

Privacy-preserving collaborative learning across distributed clients. Addressing data heterogeneity, communication efficiency, and Byzantine-resilient aggregation in healthcare settings.

Privacy

Explainable AI (XAI)

Integrating interpretability into deep learning pipelines — from vision transformers to ensemble networks — to enable transparent, decipherable predictions in clinical decision support.

Interpretability

Medical Image Analysis

Applying deep learning to blood cell classification, brain tumor detection, lung disease diagnosis, and retinal imaging for neurodegenerative disease screening.

Healthcare

Selected Publications

Education & Experience

Education

Jan 2025 — Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Old Dominion University, USA · GPA: 4.0/4.0

Jan 2022 — May 2023

M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Brac University, Bangladesh · GPA: 4.0/4.0

Jan 2017 — May 2021

B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering

Brac University, Bangladesh · GPA: 3.74/4.0

Experience

Jan 2025 — Present

Graduate Assistant (TA & RA)

Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University

Oct 2023 — Present

Lecturer (On-Leave)

Department of CSE, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)

Oct 2021 — Sep 2023

Research Assistant

Department of CSE, Brac University

Feb 2024

Visiting Scholar

Chungbuk National University, South Korea · Glass-Free 3D Internet TV project

Nov 2018 — May 2021

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Research Lab, Brac University

Research Activities

2019 — 2020

Researcher — Ministry of Science & Technology (Bangladesh)

Earthquake resistance evaluation using image processing & ML. PI: Md. Ashraful Alam, PhD

2024

Organizing Committee Member

iCACCESS 2024 — Int. Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Electrical & Smart Systems

Awards & Scholarships

2022 — 2023

Merit-Based Tuition Waiver

Brac University — Highest CGPA in M.Sc. program

2024 — 2025

Faculty Publication Rewards

ULAB — For Scopus-indexed publications

Technical Strengths

Languages

Python C/C++ Java HTML/CSS PHP Dart LaTeX

Frameworks & Tools

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-Learn SpaCy Flutter Linux MySQL

Get in Touch

I'm always open to discussing research ideas, potential collaborations, or opportunities in adversarial ML, federated learning, and medical image analysis. Feel free to reach out.