Md Faisal Ahmed is a graduate of Computer Science, achieving Vice-Chancellor's Gold Medal in the 15th Convocation of Brac University. He joined Brac University as a faculty member in 2022 and previously served as a security researcher at Beetles Cyber Security Limited. He amassed a handful of security 'hall of fame' acknowledgments from several renowned multinational companies such as Adobe, Hackerrank, Imgur, Sony, Tesla, Zendesk, etc.

His research and development areas span the fields of Machine learning in Cyber Security, Malware Analysis, Natural Language Processing, and Social Media Analysis.

He used to be a Minecraft veteran and enjoys watching anime. Additionally, he has a penchant for collecting items. Currently, he possesses a black sword (Yubashiri) and has intentions to expand his collection with more.

Conferences

Ahmed, M. F., Biash, Z. T., Shakil, A. R., Ryen, A. A. N., Hossain, A., Ashraf, F. Bin, & Hossain, M. I. (2022). ShielDroid: A hybrid approach integrating machine and deep learning for android malware detection. 2022 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Applications (DASA), 911–916. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASA54658.2022.9764984

Preprint

Ahmed, M. F., Mahmud, Z., Biash, Z. T., Ryen, A. A. N., Hossain, A., & Ashraf, F. B. (2021). Cyberbullying detection using deep neural network from social media comments in bangla language. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04506.

Ahmed, M. F., Mahmud, Z., Biash, Z. T., Ryen, A. A. N., Hossain, A., & Ashraf, F. B. (2021). Bangla text dataset and exploratory analysis for online harassment detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02478.

• Lecturer, Department of CSE, BRAC University
  Duration: June 2022 – Present
• Contractual Lecturer, Department of CSE, BRAC University
  Duration: January 2022 – May 2022
• Red Team Member, Beetles Cybersecurity Ltd., Dhaka
  Duration: August 2021 – October 2021
• Student Tutor, Department of CSE, BRAC University
  Duration: February 2020 – September 2021

• Excellence is Teaching Award, CSE, Brac University, 2024

• Vice Chancellor's Gold Medalist: 15th Convocation, Brac University

• Security Acknowledgment:
Achieved several "Hall of Fame" rewards for participating in bug bounty programs for well-known companies such as – Adobe, ANCILE Solutions Inc, Hackerrank, Imgur, Lyst, SendSafely, Socrata, Sony, Tagged, Tesla, Timeanddate, Zendesk, Zomato, etc.

• Placed among the top ten teams in Robi Datathon 2.0, 2022
• 1st Runners Up, Cyber Security Contest, City University, 2021
• 5th Position, IT Olympiad (University Level), City University, 2021
• Graduated with “Highest Distinction” from Brac University
• Awarded Vice Chancellor’s Honor List 7 times as recognition of decent performance in BSc in CS
• 1st Runners Up, National Math Olympiad (Primary Category), 2010

• Machine learning in Cyber Security
• Malware Analysis
• Privacy & Security
• Social Media Analysis
• Natural Language Processing

Theory: 

CSE496 - Ethical Hacking

CSE370 - Database Systems
CSE321 - Operating Systems

CSE110 - Programming Language I

Lab:

CSE490 - Introduction to Security

CSE447 - Cryptography & Cryptoanalysis

CSE321 - Operating Systems
CSE260 - Digital Logic Design

CSE110 - Programming Language I
MAT215 - Mathematics for Machine Learning
MAT216 - Linear Algebra and Fourier Analysis