Ms. Tanjila Farah [TnF]

Senior Lecturer

MASc. Engineering Science

Simon Fraser University, Canada

B.Sc. Electrical and Communication Engineering

BRAC University, Bangladesh

Office: SAC 929
Phone: +88 02 55668200 Ext – 6370

Research Areas

Research Interests

Internet & Web application security, Computer Networks, Machine Learning, HCI

Teaching

Selected Publications

Journals
  • Touhid Bhuiyan, Delwar Alam, Tanjila Farah, “Evaluating the Readiness of Cyber Resilient Bangladesh,” Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (JITST), Volume 4, Issue 1, ISSN 2046-3723, 2015
  • Hamdan Kaiser, Mumin Az Zahira Maria, Fatiha Jahan, Tanjila Farah, “QUEBO,” International Journal of Engineering, Applied and Management Sciences Paradigms (IJEAM), 2015
  • Moniruz Zaman, Delwar Alam, Touhid Bhuiyan, Tanjila Farah , “A Study of the Effects of Heartbleed Vulnerability in Bangladesh,” International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF), 2018
  • Tanjila Farah, Rashed Shelim, Moniruz Zaman, Delwar Alam, “Study of Race Condition: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability,” Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatic (JSCI), 2017
  • Md. Nur Uddin Sarker, Farah Ulfat, Md Zunayed Ahmed Siddique, Tanjila Farah, “Unsupervised Learning-based Vegetation change detection with Landsat 8 data,” 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems (ICAIS), 2021
Conference Papers
  • T. Farah, S. Lally, R. Gill, N. Al-Rousan, R. Paul, D. Xu, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Collection of BCNET BGP traffic,” Proc. 23rd International Teletraffic Congress, 2011
  • S. Lally, T. Farah, R. Gill, R. Paul, N. Al-Rousan, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Collection and characterization of BCNET BGP traffic,” Proc. 2011 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 2011
  • R. Gill, T. Farah, and Lj. Trajkovic, “Comparison of WiMAX and ADSL performance when streaming audio and video content,” OPNETWORK 2011, 2011
  • T. Farah and Lj. Trajkovic, “Anonym: a tool for anonymization of the Internet traffic,” Proc. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF 2013), 2013
  • T. Farah, D. Alam, M. A. Kabir, T. Bhuiyan, “SQLi Penetration Testing of Financial Web Applications: Investigation of Bangladesh Region,” World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2015), 2015
  • Tanjila Farah, Moniruzzaman Shojol, Md. Maruf Hassan, Delwar Alam, “Assessment of vulnerabilities of web applications of Bangladesh: A case study of XSS & CSRF,” The Sixth International Conference on Digital Information & Communication Technology & its Applications (DICTAP2016), 2016
  • D. Alam, T. Farah, M. A. Kabir, “Exploring the SQL injection vulnerabilities of .bd domain web applications,” 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Electronics and Communication (ACEC 2015), 2015
  • D. Alam, T. Bhuiyan, M. A. Kabir, T. Farah, “SQLi Vulnerabilty in Education Sector Websites of Bangladesh,” The Second International Conference on Information Security and Cyber Forensics (InfoSec2015), 2015
  • Tanjila Farah, Delwar Alam, Md. Nadir Bin Ali, Md. Alamgir Kabir, “Investigation of Bangladesh Region Based Web Applications: A Case Study of 64 Based, Local, and Global SQLi Vulnerability,” IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON), 2015
  • Taoseef Ishtiak, Sajid Ahmed, Mehreen Hossain Anila, Saima Islam, Rashed Shelim, Tanjila Farah, “Road State Classification of Bangladesh with Convolutional Neural Network Approach,” Road State Classification of Bangladesh with Convolutional Neural Network Approach, 2019
  • Taoseef Ishtiak, Sajid Ahmed, Mehreen Hossain Anila, Tanjila Farah, “A Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Road Anomalies Detection in Bangladesh with Image Thresholding,” 3rd World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security And Sustainability (WorldS4 2019), 2019
  • Md. Amanat Khan Shishir, Shahariar Rashid Fahim, Fairuz Maesha Habib, Tanjila Farah, “EYE ASSISTANT:Using mobile application to help the visually impaired,” 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT-2019), 2019
  • D. Alam, M. Zaman, T. Farah, R. Rahman and M. S. Hosain, “Study of the Dirty Copy on Write, a Linux Kernel memory allocation vulnerability,” 2017 International Conference on Consumer Electronics and Devices (ICCED), 2017
  • T. Farah, D. Alam, M. Zaman, and T. Bhuiyan, “A case study of Blockchain Technology,” International Conference on Cyber Security and Computer Science (ICONCS 2018), 2018
  • M. S. Hossain, Sazzad Hosain, Tanjila Farah, “A Study of Cyber security threats in core banking system of Bangladesh,” 7th International Conference on Software and Computing Technologies (ICSCT 2018), 2018
  • Md. Zahid Hasan, Samiha Tasnim, Tanjila Farah, “Autonomous Medical Assistive Robot for Medical Camp,” 2022 7th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering (ICRAE), 2022
  • Samiha Tasnim; Md. Zahid Hasan; Touhid Ahmed; Md. Tanvir Hasan; Ferdousi Jamal Uddin; Tanjila Farah, “A ROS-based Voice Controlled Robotic Arm for Automatic Segregation of Medical Waste Using YOLOv3,” 2nd International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR), 2022
  • Kazi Md Ragib, Raisa Taraman Shithi, Shihab Ali Haq, Md Hasan; Kazi Mohammed Sakib, Tanjila Farah, “PakhiChini: Automatic bird species identification using deep learning,” 2020 Fourth World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), 2020
  • Sakib Ahmed, Debashish Paul, Rubaiya Masnun, Minhaz Uddin Ahmed Shanto, Tanjila Farah, “Smart Home Shield and Automation System Using Facebook Messenger Chatbot,” 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2020
  • Kazi Soumik Islam, Sumit Kumar Das, Sourov Podder Surzo, Tanjila Farah, “Myeloma, Melanoma, Lung, Breast, Colon and Brain Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning in Web Based Application,” 2022 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), 2022

Academic Awards & Recognitions

Best paper award:

  1. World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) 2017 for “Study of Race Condition: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability”.
  2. OPNETWORK 2011 for “Comparison of WiMAX and ADSL performance when streaming audio and video content”.

Research Projects & Grants

  1. NSU, CTRG Research & Travel Grant 2021-2022.
  2. NSU, CTRG Research & Travel Grant 2019-2020.

Membership in Professional Organizations

  • Professional Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Member, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)

Supervision of theses and dissertations

  1. “Automatic Medical Assistive Robot for Rohingya Refugee Camp”, Zahid Hasan, Samiha Tasnim, Ferdousi Jamal Uddin, Md. Tanvir Hasan, Fall 2021.
  2. “Smart Lamppost: An automatic violence detection 7 communication System using deep learning”, Mohammed Safat Hossain, Jaber Al sima, Alif Mohammad, Joy Barua, Md. Asif Iqbal, Ahmed, Fall 2021.
  3. “Myeloma, Melanoma, Lung, Breast, Colon and Brain Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning in Web Based Application”, Kazi Soumik Islam, Sumit Kumar Das, Sourov Podder Surzo, Summer 2021.
  4. “Flying Scarerow: A drone for surveillance system to monitor Rohingya Refugee Camp”, Tareq Hossain, Kazi Ruhol Kabir Moahhed, Md. Mahedi Hasan, Maisha Tasin Khan, Spring 2021.
  5. “Navigational assistance for the visually Impaired through computer vision technique”, Shadab hafiz Choudhury,Ishrat Jahan Ananya, Sarah Saud, nahidul Hoque Khandakar, Summer 2020
  6. “Chikitsa Nin: Real time web based remote patient management system using Internet of Things”, Md. Hasibur Rahman Fahim, Khon. Iftekhar Alam, Oyshee Rahman, Hossain Ahmed Sojib, Summer 2020.
  7. “Remote Sensing Vegetation change in Bangladesh with satellite Driven unsupervised Image processing”, Sadia Afroz, Md. Adib Shahriar, Md. Nur Uddin Sarkar, Safia Afrin Meem, Summer 2020.
  8. “Neonatal Incubator & monitoring system”, Touhidul raquib Nayeem, Summer 2020.
  9. “Eliya: An AI Robot, assistant of the ECE Department, NSU”, Sakib Ahmed, Debashish Paul, Rubaiya Masun Abanti, Minhaz Uddin Ahmed Shanto, Fall 2019.
  10. “Pakhichini: Automatic Birds Species Identification using Deep learning”, Kazi Md. Ragib, Raisa Taraman Shithi, Shihab Ali Haq, Kazi Mohammed Sakib, Fall 2019.

Other Academic Contributions at NSU or elsewhere

  1. Branch Counselor, IEEE North South University Student Branch, (INSB), (September 2017 to January 2019) (March 2022- September 2022).
  2. Faculty Advisor,  IEEE North South University Student Branch, (INSB) Women in Engineering Affinity Group (WIE) (May 2015 to January 2018).
  3. Member of organizing committee and Session Chair of ICCIT 2016.
  4. Committee member, Intra NSU Programming contest, 2016.
  5. Committee member, ACM-ICPC 2015.
  6. Reviewer of papers, World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics And Informatics: WMSCI, International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2018,
    2019, and 2020.