Fahad Shaon

Privacy Preserving Cloud Computing Expert

I am a PhD student at UT Dallas. My research objective is to build reliable, accountable, and efficient cloud computing environment, where user don't need to worry about their privacy. I work in UTD Data Security and Privacy Lab with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu. We focus on using existing well proven cryptographic methods to build privacy preserving systems that can leverage cloud computing.

Apart form that, I have keen interest on learning new programming language, frameworks, and software engineering techniques. I also enjoy being involved in programming projects, you can find further details in project section .

I am also looking for internship opportunities, so that I apply my knowledge and experience to solve real world problems. Here is my current resume. If my experience, education, and skills picks your interest then please do contact with me.

Experiences

Research Assistant

The University of Texas at Dallas, Computer Science Department , Richardson, Texas-75080
Date: June 2013 - Present
  • Research focus: improve privacy in cloud computing environment leveraging encryption technologies
  • Administrate DSPL Lab clusters for privacy preserving big data mining experiments with Apache Spark and Hadoop

Teaching Assistant

The University of Texas at Dallas, Computer Science Department , Richardson, Texas-75080
Date: September 2012 - May 2013
Courses: OOAD, ARE, SE, ST

Software Development Engineer Intern

Kumo Knowledge, AWS, Amazon Corporate, LLC, Seattle, WA
Date: June 2016 - August 2016
  • Built effective and quantifiable mechanism to score search engine performance on large dataset.
  • Evaluated and implemented search result improvements to increase efficiency of search engine.

Junior Software Engineer

Therap Services, LLC, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date: September 2011 - July 2012
Design and develop Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant documentation software solution for developmental disabilities support providers.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas CGPA: 3.976/4.00
Expected Graduation: December, 2017
Adviser: Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, CGPA: 3.50/4.00
Graduation: February, 2011
Thesis adviser: Dr. Muhammad Masroor Ali

Projects

Secure Sync

A file synchronizing system, which enables user to upload files in encrypted form to online file storage system, such as Dropbox, and gives user the option to search and share the encrypted files.

Secure Mapper

A secure map-reduce job execution system on top of hadoop, which can execute range queries securely in a network topology where map jobs run in untrusted nodes forcing data encryption in datanodes.

RtI Progress Monitoring System

A web application for monitoring student progress utilizing RtI method, which is an academic intervention method designed to provide early, effective assistance to children having difficulty learning.

Asian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Website

The Asian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a not-for-profit and charitable organisation that aims to advance and empower local Asian businesses in Sydney. I designed the official website of this organization, featuring advanced admin panel, news, events, photos, newsletter section and a member registration module.

News Search Engine

A search engine for recent news from top news providers consisting modules for page storage, crawling, indexing, page rank analysis, and responsive user interface of easy search result retrieval.

Billiard

A 3D modeling of a billiard game environment that features collision detection, interactive lighting and camera movement.

Complete list here

Technical Skills

Languages Java (10 years of experience), Python, C++, JavaScript, R, PHP, C#, Shell Scripting
Frameworks Spring Framework, Android, Hibernate, D3.js, ReactJS, Flask, Laravel, Zend, Unity
Distributed Frameworks Apache Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Apache Pig, HBase
Cloud Platforms Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, Elasticsearch, EMR, Kinesis, ML), Google Cloud Platform (Storage, BigQuery, AppEngine, Compute Engine), Heroku
Database Systems MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Analytical Tools Weka, scikit-learn, matplotlib, MLlib, Pandas, GNU Plot, Matlab
Development Tools Git, Docker, Gradle, Maven, Ant, IntelliJ IDEA
Operating Systems Ubuntu, CentOS, Mac OS X, Windows

Awards and Honours

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