Faisal Quader, PhD
Professor of Information Science (iSchool)
College of Engineering & Information Technology
University of Maryland College Park (UMD)
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
​President & Cofounder, Technuf LLC
Dr. Faisal Quader has spent twenty-nine years in the field of Engineering, Computer Science and Information Science as an industry leader covering large scale product development to complex service delivery for demanding federal and commercial customers. He holds a Ph.D. in Cybersecurity and Data Science from the University of Maryland, School of Engineering. He also earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. He was a Merit Scholar at all his universities in academic work. His academic interests are in Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Human-computer Interaction, R&D process optimization, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) , Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as well as Health IT. He actively participates in IEEE and ACM. He is recipient of a number of academic and industry awards and certified in multiple standards including Six Sigma. Faisal has numerous publications on cybersecurity and data mining. Faisal is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland teaching Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Cybersecurity for their College of Engineering Information Technology and INFO departments.
Research Interests
Publications
2024
Momtaz, M., Padela, J., Leslie, R., Quader, F. (2024). Developing Predictive Models for Smart Policing Based on Baltimore’s Crime and Product Price Correlation. WorldS4 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 812. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8031-4_48
2021
F. Quader and V. Janeja, "Insights into Organizational Security Readiness: Lessons Learned from Cyber-Attack Case Studies", MDPI, J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2021, 1(4), 638-659, https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp1040032
2019
F. Quader and V. Janeja, "Anomaly Detection: Under the [data] Hood in Smart Cars”, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Washington, DC, USA, 2019, pp. 126-131, doi: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2019.00041
2019
F. Quader, S. Hassan and S. Ahmed, “Securing NAB Gateway Data”, 2019 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference Proceedings, Las Vegas, NV, 2019. Available at http://www.nabstore.com/NAB_Broadcast_Engineering_Conference_Proceedings_p/cp175.htm
2018
F. Quader, S. Hassan and S. Ahmed, “Securing NAB Gateway Data”, 2018 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference Proceedings, Las Vegas, NV, 2018. Available at http://www.nabstore.com/NAB_Broadcast_Engineering_Conference_Proceedings_p/cp170.htm
2016
F. Quader, Cyber Security: It All Comes Down to the Human Factor, First Republic, March 24, 2016, Available at https://www.firstrepublic.com/articles-insights/life-money/protect-against-fraud/cyber-security-it-all-comes-down-to-the-human-factor
2015
F. Quader, V.P. Janeja, Justin Stauffer, Persistent Threat Pattern Discovery, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2015, Baltimore MD
2014
F. Quader, V.P. Janeja, Computational Models to Capture Human Behavior in Cybersecurity Attacks, The Third ASE International Conference on Cyber Security May 2014, Stanford, CA