Dr. Farida Chowdhury is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University since July 2023. Previously she was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet.

She completed her PhD in Computing Science from the University of Stirling, UK. Her PhD thesis title was “Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays for NATed Churn Intensive Networks”. She completed her MSc. in Network and e-Business Centred Computing which was an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Programme between the University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Universidad Carlos(III) de Madrid, Spain.

She is one of the authors of a book titled Digital Technology (ডিজিটাল প্রযুক্তি) of Class VI of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB), Bangladesh. She was a visiting research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (Fraunhofer FIT), Germany from May, 2022 to August, 2023. During her SUST tenure, she also worked as the Coordinator of Pipilika, the first Bengali search engine, in between August, 2016 to December, 2019. 

Her current research interests include Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Security Usability, Privacy and Networking. She published numerous research articles in reputed international academic journals, conferences and workshops.

Journals

1. M. Saifuzzaman, T. N. Ananna, M. J. M. Chowdhury, M. S. Ferdous & F. Chowdhury. (2022).  A Systematic Literature Review on Wearable Health Data Publishing under Differential Privacy. International Journal of Information Security, 21, (pp. 847 - 872).
2. Shammee, T. I. , Akter, T., Mou, M., Chowdhury, F., Ferdous, M. S. (2021). A Systematic Literature Review of Graphical Password Schemes. In the International Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, 14 (4), (pp. 163-185).
3. Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., Alassafi, M. O., Alshdadi, A. A., & Chang, V. (2020). Social Anchor: Privacy-friendly Attribute Aggregation from Social Networks. IEEE Access, 8, 61844-61871.
4. Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Alassafi, M. O. (2019). In Search of Self-sovereign Identity Leveraging Blockchain Technology. IEEE Access, 7, 103059-103079.
5. Chowdhury, F., Ferdous, M. S. (2017). Performance Analysis of R/KADEMLIA, Pastry and Bamboo Using Recursive Routing in Mobile Networks. In the International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications. IJCNC, 9:(5), (pp. 41-54).
6. Chowdhury, F., Furness, J., & Kolberg, M. (2017). Performance analysis of structured peer-to-peer overlays for mobile networks. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 32(5), (pp. 522-548).

Book chapter

1. Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Poet, R. (November, 2015). A Hybrid Model of Attribute Aggregation in Federated Identity Management. In Enterprise Security (pp. 120-154). Springer, Cham.

Conferences

1. Saifullah, S. I.,  Islam, S., Ferdous, M. S. & Chowdhury,  F. (2022). Non-Fungible Token (NFT): Analyzing Marketplaces and Non-User Perspectives. In the 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE. 2022.
2. T. Hossain, M. F. Islam, W. Delamare, F. Chowdhury and K. Hasan. (2021). Exploring Social Acceptability and Users’ Preferences of Head- and Eye-Based Interaction with Mobile Devices. In the 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Pages 12–23, MUM 2021.
3. Moniruzzaman, M., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (February, 2020). Examining Usability Issues in Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrency Wallets. In the International Conference on Cyber Security and Computer Science (pp. 631-643). Springer, Cham.
4. Islam, M. R., Rahman, J., Talha, M. R., & Chowdhury, F. (June, 2020). Query Expansion for Bangla Search Engine Pipilika. In the IEEE Region 10 Symposium, TENSYMP, (pp. 1367-1370). IEEE.
5. Chowdhury, A. A., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (2020). A Study of Password Security Factors among Bangladeshi Government Websites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01765.
6. Moniruzzaman, M., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (February, 2019). Measuring Vulnerabilities of Bangladeshi Websites. In the International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering, ECCE 2019, (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
7. Saurav, J. R., Haque, S., & Chowdhury, F. (September, 2019). End to End Parts of Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition in Bangla Language. In the International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing, ICBSLP 2019, (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
8. Ahmad, A., Amin, M. R., & Chowdhury, F. (September, 2018). Bengali Document Clustering Using Word Movers Distance. In the International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing, ICBSLP 2018, (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
9. Ahmad, A., Talha, M. R., Amin, M. R., & Chowdhury, F. (September, 2018). Pipilika N-Gram viewer: an efficient large scale N-Gram model for Bengali. In the International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing, ICBSLP 2018, (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
10. Siddiki, M. R., Talha, M. A., Chowdhury, F., & Ferdous, M. S. (December, 2017). CrowdsouRS: A Crowdsourced Reputation System for Identifying Deceptive Online Contents. In the 20th International Conference of Computer and Information Technology, ICCIT 2017, (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
11. Furness, J., Chowdhury, F., & Kolberg, M. (2014). An Evaluation of Epichord in Oversim. In Networks and Communications, NetCom, (pp. 3-19). Springer, Cham.
12. Chowdhury, F., & Kolberg, M. (November, 2013). Performance Evaluation of EpiChord under High Churn. In the 8th ACM workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks, PM2HW2N 2013, (pp. 29-36).
13. Chowdhury, F., & Kolberg, M. (December, 2013). Performance Evaluation of Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays for Use on Mobile Networks. In the 6th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSe 2013, (pp. 57-62). IEEE.
14. Ferdous, M. S., Jabed, M., Chowdhury, M., Moniruzzaman, M., & Chowdhury, F. (May, 2012). Identity federations: A new perspective for Bangladesh. In the International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2012, (pp. 219-224). IEEE.
15. Chowdhury, F., & Kolberg, M. (2012). A Survey of Peer-to-Peer Solutions in Mobile and Cellular Networks. In the 13th Annual Post Graduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet 2012).
16. Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Acharjee, J. C. (March, 2007). An Extended Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of the Current NAPT. In the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, ICCIT 2007, (pp. 315-318). IEEE.
17. Ferdous, M. S., Chowdhury, F., & Moniruzzaman, M. (January, 2007). A Taxonomy of Attack Methods on Peer-to-Peer Network. In the 1st Indian conference on computational intelligence and information security. ICCIIS 2007, (pp. 132-138).
18. Ferdous, M. S., & Chowdhury, F. (January, 2007). Middleware Distributed Approach to Synchronous Detection of ARP Cache Poisoning. In the 1st Indian Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Security, ICCIIS 2007, (pp. 22-25).
19. Ferdous, M. S. and Chowdhury, F. (2007). Covert Channel Communication in RFID (Short Paper). In the 1st International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2007, (pp. 47-52).

• Reviewer of the International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2022).
• TPC member and Session Chair at the Conference on IEEE TENSYMP 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Joint Secretary, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing, ICBSLP 2019, Bangladesh.
• Reviewer of the International Conference on Engineering Research, Innovation and Education (ICERIE 2019).
• Joint Secretary, 1st IEEE International Conference on Bangla Speech and Language Processing, ICBSLP 2018, Bangladesh.
• Reviewer of the International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Materials and Electronic Engineering (IC4ME2 2018).
• Google Student Ambassador (GSA) at the University of Stirling in 2012-13.
• Poster Coordinator at the SICSA PhD Conference 2012.

• GHC (Grace Hopper Celebration) Faculty Scholarship to attend the Virtual GHC in 2021.
• Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Studentship for PhD.
• Finalist of Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.
• Erasmus-Mundus MSc Scholarship for MSc in Network and e-Business Centred Computing (NeBCC).