Mohammad Atiqul Islam

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
500 UTA Blvd., Arlington, TX 76019
Email: mislam[AT]uta[dot]edu
Office: Room 540, Engineering Research Building (ERB)

Research

My work can be broadly classified as computer systems research with ongoing projects at UTA spanning several research areas such as Cloud, Economics of Computing, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing, Security and Privacy, Edge Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT, and Sensors.

Please check my research page and publications for more details.

Recent News

• [06/2025]: Our paper on federated learning got accepted in IEEE EDGE’25
• [06/2025]: Our paper on federated learning received the Best Paper Award in IWCMC’25
• [04/2025]: Our paper on drone swarm tracking got accepted in ACM MobiSys’25
• [03/2025]: I will serve on the Program Committee of Micro’25
• [03/2025]: Our paper on HPC cost optimization got accepted in JSSPP’25
• [12/2024]: I will serve on the Program Committee of CCS’25
• [10/2024]: Our paper on fair federated learning got accepted in ACM TOMPECS
• [10/2024]: Our paper on HPC on edge devices got accepted in IEEE HiPC’24
• [07/2024]: Our paper on converged computing got accepted in IEEE CLUSTER’24
• [07/2024]: Our paper on water usage of AI got accepted in Special Issue on Sustainability of the Communications of the ACM

• [06/2024]: Our dataset of water usage efficiency received the best notes paper award in E-Energy’24
• [05/2024]: My PhD student Zahidur Rahim Talukder is recognized as a MLCommons Rising Star
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Selected Publications (Full List)

• Detection and Tracking of Drone Swarms using LiDAR, MobiSys’25. [MobiSys’25 pdf]
• Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models, CACM’25. [CACM’25 pdf]
• Enabling Low-Cost Server Level Power Monitoring in Data Centers Using Conducted EMI, SenSys’23. [SenSys’23 pdf]
• Market Mechanism-Based User-in-the-Loop Scalable Power Oversubscription for HPC Systems, HPCA’23. [HPCA’23 pdf]
• Practical Efficient Microservice Autoscaling with QoS Assurance, HPDC’22. [HPDC’22 pdf]
• Heat Behind the Meter: A Hidden Threat of Thermal Attacks in Edge Colocation Data Centers, HPCA’21. [HPCA’21 pdf][talk@HPCA]
• Your Noise, My Signal: Exploiting Switching Noise for Stealthy Data Exfiltration from Desktop Computers, SIGMETRICS’20. [SIGMETRICS’20 pdf] [talk]
• Ohm's Law in Data Centers: A Voltage Side Channel for Timing Power Attacks, CCS’18. [CCS’18 pdf] [talk@CCS]
• Why Some Like It Loud: Timing Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers Using an Acoustic Side Channel, SIGMETRICS'18. [SIGMETRICS’18 pdf]
• A Spot Capacity Market to Increase Power Infrastructure Utilization in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, HPCA’18. [HPCA’18 pdf]
• Exploiting a Thermal Side Channel for Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, CCS’17. [CCS’17 pdf] [talk@CCS]
• A Market Approach for Handling Power Emergencies in Multi-tenant Data Center, HPCA’16. [HPCA’16 pdf]
• Paying to Save: Reducing Cost of Colocation Data Center via Rewards, HPCA’15. [HPCA’15 pdf]
• A Contract Design Approach for Colocation Data Center Demand Response, ICCAD’15. [ICCAD’15 pdf]

Research Sponsors