Published multiple academic papers in conferences and journals such as NeurIPS MLForSys Workshop, ArXiv, IEEE S&P (Oakland), etc.; involved in projects like TuneShield and CHAPAO. Also, awarded the Pratt Fellowship 2025 and served on several technical committees.
Research Experience
Interned as a Machine Learning Research Associate at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Labs, working on deploying Multi-LLM reasoning systems to optimize real-world applications.
Education
Received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BUET in April 2019; currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Bimal Viswanath.
Background
A 5th year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, with research interests centered around the security & reasoning capabilities of MLLMs and LLMs, particularly focusing on enhancing the robustness of Multimodal and Large Language models against adversarial attacks.
Miscellany
Contact: sifat.abdullah577@gmail.com (personal) or sifat@vt.edu (institution).