Directory

Research interests

• Generative AI
• Cyber Security
• Side-channel attacks
• Internet of Things
• Robotics

Courses taught

• CPS 420: Software Engineering, Special Topics

Selected publications

Sayed Erfan Arefin, Tasnia Ashrafi Heya, Hasan Al-Qudah, Ynes Ineza, and Abdul Serwadda. 2023. Unmasking the giant: A comprehensive evaluation of ChatGPT’s proficiency in coding algorithms and data structures. In 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2024.

Sayed Erfan Arefin, Tasnia Ashrafi Heya, and Jia Uddin. 2018. Real-life implementation of internet of robotic things using 5 DoF heterogeneous robotic arm. In 2018 Joint 7th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV) and 2018 2nd International Conference on Imaging, Vision & Pattern Recognition (icIVPR), IEEE, 486–491.

Sayed Erfan Arefin and Abdul Serwadda. 2021. Deep neural exposure: You can run, but not hide your neural network architecture! In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, 75–80.

Sayed Erfan Arefin and Abdul Serwadda. 2024. The Road to Web 3.0: Empirical Insights into Full Node Workload in the Bitcoin Blockchain. In 2024 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), IEEE, 1–6.

Sayed Erfan Arefin and Abdul Serwadda. 2024. Dissecting the Origins of the Power Side-Channel in Deep Neural Networks. In 2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT), IEEE, 414–420.

Sayed Erfan Arefin and Abdul Serwadda. 2024. Exploiting HDMI and USB Ports for GPU Side-Channel Insights. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02539 (2024).

Tasnia H Ashrafi, Md Arshad Hossain, Sayed E Arefin, Kowshik DJ Das, and Amitabha Chakrabarty. 2018. IoT Infrastructure: Fog Computing Surpasses Cloud Computing. In Intelligent Communication and Computational Technologies. Springer, 43–55.

Casqueiro Gustavo, Arefin Sayed Erfan, Ashrafi Heya Tasnia, Serwadda Abdul, and Wasswa Hassan. 2022. Weaponizing IoT Sensors: When Table Choice Poses a Security Vulnerability. In 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS-ISA), 160–167.

Tasnia Ashrafi Heya, Sayed Erfan Arefin, Amitabha Chakrabarty, and Mazidul Alam. 2018. Image processing based indoor localization system for assisting visually impaired people. In 2018 Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (UPINLBS), IEEE, 1–7.