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S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader

Doctoral Researcher

Mr S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader

School/Department: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Email: smrkh1@leicester.ac.uk

Profile

Assalam Alaikum, I am S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader. I am a Ph.D. in Computer Science student at the University of Leicester and my supervisors are Dr. Xiao Chen, Professor Lu Liu. My research area is Federated Learning.

I have served for almost 3.5 years as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Software Engineer at two renowned IT companies in Bangladesh. I completed my M. Sc. in Computer Science from American International University - Bangladesh (AIUB) and B. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. I received Summa Cum Laude from AIUB in the 20th convocation. I was an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant(UTA) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at East West University. During my B. Sc. I achieved the Dean Scholarship and Medha Lalon Scholarship from East West University.

Research

  • Federated Learning Applications in Healthcare Informatics: A Comprehensive Review (Undergoing Review)
    • Authors: S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader, Lu Liu, Xiao Chen, Haiqin Wu, Bo Yuan, Atanu Bhattacharjee 
  • FedAdaVR: Adaptive Variance Reduction for Robust Federated Learning under Limited Client Participation (Pre-print)
    • Authors: S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader, Xiao Chen, Yifei Xie, Lu Liu
  • FedOAED: Federated On-Device Autoencoder Denoiser for Heterogeneous Data under Limited Client Availability (Accepted to the AAAI 2026 FLCA Workshop (withdrawn before publication))
    • Authors: S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader, Xiao Chen, Yifei Xie, Lu Liu
  • An Optimized Federation Model for Park-Level Integrated Energy Systems in Industrial Internet of Things    
  • A Distributed Data-Driven and Machine Learning Method for High-Level Causal Analysis in Sustainable IoT Systems     
  • Secure and Intelligent Low-Altitude Infrastructures: Synergistic Integration of IoT Networks, AI Decision-Making and Blockchain Trust Mechanisms in MDPI Sensors    
    • Disease Detection of Bangladeshi Crops Using Image Processing and Deep Learning-A Comparative Analysis
      • Automated Requirements Extraction and Product Configuration Verification for Software Product Line

      Teaching

      Incoming Lecturer at De Montfort University (Part-time):

      • Digital Transformation
      • Programming in Python

      Teaching and Lab Assistant at University of Leicester:

      • CO1107 - Algorithms, Data Structures and Advanced Programming (2023-24, BSc)
      • CO1109 - Business and Financial Computing (2023-24, BSc)
      • CO2102 - Databases and Domain Modelling (2025-26, BSc)
      • CO2124 - Software Architecture and System Development (2024-25, 2025-26, BSc)
      • CO2201 - Software Engineering Project (2023-24, BSc)
      • CO3101 - Computers, Society & Professionalism (2023-24, 2024-25, BSc)
      • CO3095 - Software Measurement and Quality Assurance (2024-25, 2025-26, BSc)

      Awards

      • Fully Funded Future 100 Studentship
        • University of Leicester [September, 2022]
      • Summa Cum Laude (Gold Medal)
        • American International University - Bangladesh (AIUB) [October, 2021]
      • Best eGener of the quarter
        • eGeneration, Bangladesh [May, 2021]
      • Dean Scholarship
        • East West University, Bangladesh [May, 2017]
      • Medha Lalon Scholarship
        • East West University, Bangladesh [May, 2016]

      Interests

      • Federated Learning
      • Machine Learning
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Large Language Model

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