About
Sheikh Rabiul Islam
Dr. Sheikh Rabiul Islam is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a faculty member of CCIB (Center for Computational and Integrative Biology). Dr. Islam’s research interests center around Explainable and Fair Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Social Good, and Health Informatics. He developed many techniques to infuse external knowledge (e.g., domain knowledge, social values) into the decision and explanation process of Artificial Intelligence-based automated decision systems (i.e., black box) to make the decision (e.g., predictive policing, public funding allocation, disease symptoms and impact analysis, credit approval, digital forensics) fairer and more explainable. Prior to Rutgers, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Hartford for three years. Dr. Islam earned his Ph.D. in Engineering (Computer Science) from Tennessee Tech University in 2020.