Biography
Shahroz Tariq received his Ph.D. from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, working on continual learning, deepfake, and anomaly detection. He was a Ph.D. research assistant at Stony Brook University and SUNY Korea (2017-2019). He received his B.S. in Computer Science with high distinction from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Islamabad, Pakistan, and his M.S. in Computer Science with high distinction from Sangmyung University, Cheonan, South Korea. He worked as a Software Engineer in Bentley Systems (2014-2015). Now, he is a postdoctoral fellow working on human-AI collaborative systems for cybersecurity at CSIRO’s Data61 in Sydney, Australia. He has published deepfake detection papers in NeurIPS, ACMMM, WWW, ADGD, WMF, IFIPSEC, SAC, ASOC, and MPS. He has also published research articles in KDD, CIKM, SMC, COSE, IOSec, MiLeTS, and MobiSys. He has been a technical program committee member for AAAI, NeurIPS, KDD, ICLR, WSDM, SDM, WACV, WWW, and CIKM.
Academic Qualifications
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2021
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea -
2017
M.S. in Computer Science
Sangmyung University, South Korea -
2014
B.S. in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES)
Achievements and Awards
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2018-2018
3rd Prize AI R&D Challenge
South Korean Government -
2017-2017
Most Outstanding Project Award
Jeju Global Hackathon, South Korea -
2017-2017
2nd Prize National Data Science Challenge
Korea University, South Korea -
2014-2014
Bronze Medal for excellent academic performance
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Pakistan -
2013-2013
2nd Prize Speed Programming
14th Softcom at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan -
2013-2013
2nd Prize Quiz Competition
14th Softcom at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan -
2013-2013
Bronze Medal for excellent academic performance
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Pakistan -
2012-2012
Silver Medal for excellent academic performance
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Pakistan -
2011-2011
1st Prize Programming Competition
ACM-Student Islamabad Chapter, Pakistan -
2011-2011
Gold Medal for excellent academic performance
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Pakistan
Current Roles
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CERC Postdoctoral Fellow
CINTEL FSP - Collaborative Surveillance Project
Professional Experiences
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2019-2021
Senior Research Assistant
DASH Lab at Sungkyunkwan University -
2017-2019
Research Assistant
DASH Lab at Stony Brook University -
2015-2017
Research Assistant
Pi:Lab at Sangmyung University -
2014-2015
Software Engineer
Bentley Systems Inc.
Professional Areas
- Human-AI Collaboration
- Lifelong Learning
- Deepfake Detection
- Collaborative Intelligence
- Anomaly Detection
- Time Series Analysis
- Intrusion Detection
- Graph Neural Networks
- Machine Learning
- Adversarial Attacks and Defense
- Deep Learning
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Continual Learning
- Knowledge Distillation
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