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Dr. Alvi Ataur Khalil

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
Email: alviataur.khalil@siu.edu
Office: EGRA 409F

Alvi Ataur Khalil is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. He received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, in 2018, the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA, in 2024, and completed and defended his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from FIU in 2025. From 2018 to 2019, he worked as a Software Developer at MazeGeek Technologies BD Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh, and served as a Lecturer at Daffodil International University. From 2020 to 2025, he was a Graduate Assistant at the Analytics for Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab at FIU, contributing to research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Department of Energy (DOE). His research focuses on blockchain security, particularly off-chain Layer-2 vulnerabilities and defenses, intelligent UAV control using reinforcement learning, and AI-driven cybersecurity solutions for cyber-physical systems. Khalil has authored over 17 peer-reviewed papers (13 as the first author) published in leading venues such as IEEE TNSM, Elsevier Computer Networks, and ACM DLT. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Outstanding Graduate Scholar of the Year at FIU (2023–24), the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Honor Society Scholarship (2024), the FIU Dissertation Year Fellowship (2025), and multiple NSF and IEEE travel and poster awards. In 2023, he was selected to present his research at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). He also received the NSF I-Corps award as an Entrepreneurial Lead, conducting over 100 customer discovery interviews.

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