Dr. Latifur Khan was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for its contributions to automatic learning with applications to cybersecurity, social sciences and data management.
Dr Latifur Khanteacher IT At the University of Texas in Dallas, was elected to the Class 2024 From the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows.
Khan is one of the 471 scientists, engineers and innovators to recognize in 24 disciplinary sections. The new scholarship holders will be honored during a June 7 event in Washington, DC
The AAAS elected Khan in the Information, Computer Science and Communication section for “distinguished contributions to the field of automatic learning with applications to cybersecurity, social sciences and data management”.
Khan, who joined UT Dallas in 2000, is an international leader in the analysis of high education data, which involves major continuous data flows, and an expert in major data and data exploration and automatic cybersecurity learning.
In 2024, he received a subsidy of nearly a million dollars over two years from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a UT Dallas center for secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence to meet the challenges that AI poses to cybersecurity.
About AAAS
Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the largest general scientific society in the world. Its mission includes the progress of science, engineering and innovation and society through initiatives in terms of scientific policy, international programs, scientific education and public engagement. He also published the review Sciencewhich has the most important paid circulation of any general scientific journal evaluated by peers. Consult the list of Current fellows aaas from Ut Dallas.
“Dr. Latifur Khan is a world class researcher who has been the pioneer of many fundamental algorithms of advanced data exploration for a range of applications such as cybersecurity and analysis of geospatial data,” said Dr Ovidiu Daescuprofessor and head of the IT department and president of the Jonsson school in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. “I am delighted that Dr. Khan, who began his university career in Ut Dallas, received one of the highest honors for a scientist.”
Khan’s interdisciplinary research is going through a range of cybersecurity fields for political science. It has developed a mechanism to determine when updating an automatic learning model designed to monitor the major continuous data flows for cybersecurity risks. The solution tackled the need to adapt the model as the attackers change their approach. In a collaboration with researchers in the School of Economic, Political and Political SciencesKhan has also developed an open-source IA-focused tool, ConflictA benchmark for information on political conflicts and violence.
“I am very honored to be appointed AAAS scholarship holder, who represents a multidisciplinary group of scientists,” said Khan. “I am very grateful to the UTD for the support I have received.”
Khan is also a companion de l’Ieee, member of the British Computer Society and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery and received an IBM Faculty Prize, an IEEE Technical Achievement Award, a joint price of the IEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE transport systems company, and several IEEE Paper paper prizes.
Khan’s work was supported by agencies such as National Science Foundation, the research army, the research laboratory, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency and the Air Force of Scientific Research. He obtained a master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Before coming to the United States in 1995 for his higher education, Khan obtained his baccalaureate in computer science and engineering university of Bangladesh.