Md Sadman Siraj

About

PhD Student & Research Assistant

Interested in Resource Management in Wireless Communications with Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning & Alternative Positioning Navigation and Timing

  • City: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
  • Email: mdsadmansiraj96@unm.edu

I am a Ph.D student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico, USA, as a member of the Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks (PROTON) Lab, with Prof. E. E. Tsiropoulou as an advisor since January 2022. I obtained my Bachelor's Degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 2020.

My research involves Computer Systems and Networks, with interests in Resource Orchestration in Interdependent Systems, Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Resource Allocation in 6G networks using Game Theory, Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning. In addition, I am also working on developing Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) services and novel localization techniques. Furthermore, I am focusing my research on a joint domain of APNT and Cybersecurity along with the application of Game Theoretic frameworks.

I am the current Chairperson of the IEEE Albuquerque Section Computer Society and Communications Society Joint Chapter, an active student member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group and IEEE Special Interests Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT). I have been the Chairperson for IEEE Student Branch University of Dhaka (IEEE SB DU) from 2019 to 2021.

Resume

Professional Experience

University of New Mexico, USA

May 2022 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks (PROTON) Lab

University of New Mexico, USA

January 2022 - May 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Undergraduate Course: Signals & Systems
  • Undergraduate Course: Electromagnetic Fields & Waves
  • Undergraduate Course: Introduction to Power Systems

Upskill, Bangladesh

June 2020 - December 2021

Online Course Instructor

  • Python Programming Fundamentals: Variables, Expressions, Conditionals, Loops, Functions
  • Data Structures: Strings, Files, Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples
  • Web Data in Python: Regular Expressions, Sockets, URLlibs, HTTP, XML, JSON
  • Database in Python: Tables, DBMS, Relations, SQL, SQLite, RDBMS

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

January 2022 - Present

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expected Graduation: Spring 2026

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering

January 2022 - December 2023

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USA

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Expected Graduation: Fall 2023

B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

January 2016 - March 2020

University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Major: Communication

Minor: Electronics

Skills

Programming & Software

  • Python, C, C++
  • Deep Learning with Keras
  • Reinforcement Learning in Python
  • Unix / Linux
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • SQL


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    Analytical Skills

  • Research & open data aggregation
  • Data cleaning & processing
  • Excellent visualizations

    • Communication & Interpersonal Skills

  • Collaborative project management
  • Advanced presentation skills
  • Self-starter

    • Publications

    Google Scholar

    Journal Publications

    1. N. Kemp, M. S. Siraj, E. E. Tsiropoulou, Elektra: Empowering prosumers with distributed prosumer grouping and game-theoretic energy procurement, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 133 (2024) 102918, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2024.102918.

    2. N. Kemp, M. S. Siraj, E. E. Tsiropoulou, Coalitional demand response management in community energy management systems, Energies 16 (17) (2023), doi:10.3390/en16176363.

    3. M. S. Siraj, A. B. Rahman, M. Diamanti, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Enabled by Games in Satisfaction Form and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 5035-5046, Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2023.3268989.

    Conference Publications

    1. J. Bingham, M. S. Siraj, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "MERCURY: Multilateral Bargaining on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing," in WF-IoT 2024 - 2024 IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things. (Under Review)

    2. S. Tsikteris, A. B. Rahman, M. S. Siraj, P. Charatsaris, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and Symeon Papavassiliou, "TRUSTCACHE: Trust-based Content Caching in Information-Centric Networks," in GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024. (Under Review)

    3. G. Mystriotis, M. S. Siraj, M. Diamanti, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and Symeon Papavassiliou, "FedLearner: Autonomous Node Selection for Multi-Model Federated Learning," in GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024. (Under Review)

    4. N. Kemp, M. S. Siraj, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "Peer-to-Peer Electric Vehicles Energy Trading through Reinforcement Learning and Multilateral Bargaining," in GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024. (Under Review)

    5. N. Kemp, M. S. Siraj, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "SMARTFORM: Self-Managed Coalition Formation for Energy Trading in Smart Grid Systems," in ICC 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024. (Accepted)

    6. M. S. Siraj, J. R. Atencio, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "Dead-on-Target: An Accurate Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Solution," in ICC 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024. (Accepted)

    7. A. S. Penafiel, M. S. Siraj, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "GENESIS: Green Energy Efficiency Optimization in Integrated Sensing and Communication Networks," in ICC 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024. (Accepted)

    8. A. Adesokan, M. S. Siraj, A. S. Penafiel, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "GAIA: A Dynamic Crowdmapping Framework Based on Hedonic Coalition Formation Games," GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 2299-2304, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10436835.

    9. N. Kemp, M. S. Siraj, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Community-Based Load Balancing and Prosumers Incentivization in Smart Grid Systems," GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 2245-2250, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437748.

    10. M. S. Siraj, E. E. Tsiropoulou, S. Papavassiliou, and J. Plusquellic, "SAFE: Secure Symbiotic Positioning, Navigation, and Timing," GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023, pp. 2832-2837, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437205.

    11. A. B. Rahman, M. S. Siraj, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Pavassiliou, "Mutualistic Compute Continuum: A Network Economics Analysis," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 1565-1570, doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283544.

    12. A. Adesokan, M. S. Siraj, A. B. Rahman, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Pavassiliou, "How to become an Influencer in Social Networks," ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 5570-5575, doi: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279644.

    13. M. S. Siraj, A. B. Rahman, E. E. Tsiropoulou, S. Papavassiliou, and J. Plusquellic, "Symbiotic Positioning, Navigation, and Timing," 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Pafos, Cyprus, 2023, pp. 261-268, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00052.

    14. A. B. Rahman, P. Charatsaris, M. S. Siraj, and E. E. Tsiropoulou, "Symbiotic Content Caching in Next-Generation Information-Centric Networking," 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Pafos, Cyprus, 2023, pp. 414-421, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00072.

    15. M. S. Siraj, A. B. Rahman, P. Charatsaris, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Positioning, Navigation, and Timing on the Air," 2023 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Pafos, Cyprus, 2023, pp. 661-668, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00105.

    16. M. S. Siraj, A. B. Rahman, M. Diamanti, E. E. Tsiropoulou, S. Papavassiliou, and J. Plusquellic, "Orchestration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing," MILCOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Rockville, MD, USA, 2022, pp. 148-153, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM55135.2022.10017665.

    17. A. B. Rahman, M. S. Siraj, N. Kubiak, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Network Economics-based Crowdsourcing in Online Social Networks," GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 4655-4660, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001611.

    18. M. S. Siraj, M. S. Hossain, R. Brown, E. E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Incentives to Learn: A Location-based Federated Learning Model," 2022 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), Argostoli, Greece, 2022, pp. 40-45, doi: 10.1109/GIIS56506.2022.9937034.

    19. Faisal, M. A. A., Siraj, M. S., Abdullah, M. T., Shahid, O., Abir, F. F., & Ahad, M. A. R. (2020, September). A pragmatic signal processing approach for nurse care activity recognition using classical machine learning. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 396-401). [doi: 10.1145/3410530.3414337]

    20. Siraj, M. S., Faisal, M. A. A., Shahid, O., Abir, F. F., Hossain, T., Inoue, S., & Ahad, M. A. R. (2020, September). UPIC: User and position independent classical approach for locomotion and transportation modes recognition. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 340-345). [doi: 10.1145/3410530.3414343]

    21. M. S. Siraj and M. A. R. Ahad, "A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework using CNN and GRU-based RNN for Recognition of Pairwise Similar Activities," 2020 Joint 9th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) and 2020 4th International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2020, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICIEVicIVPR48672.2020.9306630.

    22. K. M. Khabir, M. S. Siraj, M. Ahmed and M. U. Ahmed, "Prediction of Gender and Age from Inertial Sensor-based Gait Dataset," 2019 Joint 8th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) and 2019 3rd International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), Spokane, WA, USA, 2019, pp. 371-376, doi: 10.1109/ICIEV.2019.8858521.

    23. K. M. Khabir, M. S. Siraj, M. A. Habib, T. Hossain and M. A. Rahman Ahad, "A Study on DSR Routing Protocol in Adhoc Network for Daily Activities of Elderly Living," 2018 Joint 7th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) and 2018 2nd International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2018, pp. 573-577, doi: 10.1109/ICIEV.2018.8640994.

    24. S. S. Saha, M. S. Siraj and W. B. Habib, "FoodAlytics: A formalin detection system incorporating a supervised learning approach," 2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017, pp. 26-29, doi: 10.1109/R10-HTC.2017.8288898.

    Book Chapters

    1. Siraj, M.S., Shahid, O., Ahad, M.A.R. (2021). Cooking Activity Recognition with Varying Sampling Rates Using Deep Convolutional GRU Framework. In: Ahad, M.A.R., Lago, P., Inoue, S. (eds) Human Activity Recognition Challenge. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 199. Springer, Singapore. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8269-1_10

    Honors & Awards

    • IEEE Outstanding Graduate Engineering Student Award 2023 -- IEEE Albuquerque Section awarded me with the IEEE Outstanding Graduate Engineering Student Award for outstanding academic performance in the field of Computing and Communications


    • ECE Outstanding Student Teaching Award 2023 -- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, University of New Mexico awarded me the ECE Outstanding Student Teaching Award


    • Nominated for Outstanding Graduate Award 2023, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, University of New Mexico


    • Nominated as a Finalist for The LoboBITES competition by the University of New Mexico (UNM) (2022)


    • IEEE HPSR 2023, IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 GCSN and IEEE ISCC 2022 Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

    Teaching

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Undergraduate Courses, Dpeartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2022

    • Signals & Systems

    Assisted in grading students in Signals & Systems [ECE-314L]

    Fourier Representations, Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) Systems and Z-Transformations

    • Electromagnetic Fields & Waves

    Assisted in grading students in Electromagnetic Fields & Waves [ECE-360]

    Vector Analysis & Calculus, Electrostatics, Magnetostatics, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Transmission Lines, Waveguides, Antennas

    • Introduction to Power Systems

    Assisting in grading students in Introduction to Power Systems [ECE-381]

    Fundamentals of Power Systems, Power Transformers, Transmission Line Parameters, Power Flows, Symmetrical & Unsymmetrical Faults