Abdullah Al Omar

About Me

I am a Computing Science graduate from the University of Alberta, where I completed my M.Sc. with a focus on Privacy preserving ML and Security. My research explored topics in Usable Privacy, Blockchain, Distributed Systems, and Federated Learning. I am passionate about solving real-world problems at the intersection of technology and user trust.

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Experience

• HCLTech and University of Alberta, Canada — Mitacs Accelerate Intern
  September 2023 - December 2024
  • Designed a practical and efficient Privacy-preserving Federateed Learning Framework utilizing Multi-key Homomorphic Encryption
  • Paper is currently under review also available at: arXiv:2505.14797
• University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada — Gradutate Teaching Assistant (GTA)
  September 2022 - April 2023
  • Assisted Professor in CMPUT 272- Formal Systems and Logic in Computing Science (Fall 2022) and CMPUT 313- Computer Networks (Winter 2023)
  • Held sessions for CMPUT 272 and Conducted labs for CMPUT 313
• University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh — Lecturer (On Leave)
  April 2017 - July 2022
  • Conducted courses in Compujter Peripherals, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, and Data Structures.
  • Mentored students in the Math Club.
• Leveraging ICT (LICT), ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh — Blockchain Trainer
  June 2020 - September 2020
  • Trained the top 15 teams in the Bangladesh Blockchain Olympiad 2020.
• University of Asia Pacific, Dhaka, Bangladesh — Teaching Assistant
  November 2016 - April 2017
  • Assisted in conducting labs for Computer Programming and Methodology courses.

Publications

Journals

• "A Transparent and Privacy-preserving Healthcare Platform with Novel Smart Contract for Smart Cities" - IEEE Access, 2021

  Abdullah Al Omar, Abu Kaisar Jamil, Amith Khandakar, Abdur Razzak Uzzal, Rabeya Bosri, Nafees Mansoor, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
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• "Integrating Blockchain with Artificial Intelligence for Privacy-Preserving in Recommender Systems" - IEEE TNSE, 2020

  Abdullah Al Omar, Abu Kaisar Jamil, Amith Khandakar, Abdur Razzak Uzzal, Rabeya Bosri, Nafees Mansoor, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
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• "Accountable Cross-border Data Sharing Using Blockchain under Relaxed Trust Assumption" - IEEE TEMS, 2020

  Rabeya Bosri, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Abdullah Al Omar
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• "Privacy-friendly Platform for Healthcare Data in Cloud Based on Blockchain Environment" - FGCS, 2019

  Abdullah Al Omar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Anirban Basu, Shinsaku Kiyomoto, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
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Conference and Workshops

• "Matrib Leaf Classification using Deep Neural Network: An Integrated Image Processing Technique" - IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2022

  Hanif Bhuiya, Md Abdul Karim, Jinat Ara, Abdullah Al Omar, Saharul Islam, Faria Benta Karim, Guido Governatori
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• "Image Analysis using Deep Learning for a Smart Traffic Control System" - International Conference on Computing Advancements (ICCA), 2022

  Sourav Paul, SM Rafi Alam, Md Orun Sunny, Shaila Rahman, Abdullah Al Omar
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• "Towards a Location-Aware Blockchain-Based Solution to Distinguish Fake News in Social Media" - International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec), 2021

  Wahid Sadique Koly, Abu Kaisar Jamil, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Hanif Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Abdullah Al Omar
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• "Towards A Transparent and Privacy-preserving Healthcare Platform with Blockchain for Smart Cities" - IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2020

  Abdullah Al Omar, Abu Kaisar Jamil, Md Shakhawath Hossain Nur, Md Mahamudul Hasan, Rabeya Bosri, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
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• "HIDEchain: A User-Centric Secure Edge Computing Architecture for Healthcare IoT Devices" - IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2020

  Rabeya Bosri, Abdur Razzak Uzzal, Abdullah Al Omar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
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• "Understanding Customer Sentiment: Lexical Analysis of Restaurant Reviews" - IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 2020

  Jinat Ara, Md Toufique Hasan, Abdullah Al Omar, Hanif Bhuiyan
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• "Towards a Privacy-Preserving Voting System Through Blockchain Technologies" - IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2019

  Rabeya Bosri, Abdur Razzak Uzzal, Abdullah Al Omar, A S M Touhidul Hasan, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan
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• "Bringing a Change in Digital Mobile Banking through Distributed Technology" - International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2019

  Md Shahin Uddin Talukder, Nabil Islam, Shaila Sharmin, Abdullah Al Omar, Sakib Hasan
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• "Towards Privacy-preserving Recommender System with Blockchains" - International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, 2019

  Abdullah Al Omar, Rabeya Bosri, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Nasima Begum, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan
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• "CRAB: Blockchain Based Criminal Record Management System" - International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, 2018

  Maisha Afrida Tasnim, Abdullah Al Omar, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan
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• "MediBchain: A Blockchain Based Privacy Preserving Platform for Healthcare Data" - International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, 2017

  Abdullah Al Omar, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Anirban Basu, Shinsaku Kiyomoto
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• "Adaptive Secured Multicast Key Management with Re-keying Process" - IEEE Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC), 2016

  Jahir Ibna Rafiq, Abdullah Al Omar, Animesh Chakraborty, Albub Yusuf
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Book Chapter

• "An Anti-Counterfeiting Architecture Ensuring Authenticity and Traceability for Expensive Medicines Using QR Codes" - Blockchain Technology for IoE, CRC Press, 2023

  Sk Yeasin Kabir Joy, Md Nafees Imtiaz Ahsan, Nuzhat Tabassum Progga, Aloke Kumar Saha, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Abdullah Al Omar
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Professional Services

• Reviewer - Blockchain: Research and Applications, Elsevier (Online ISSN: 2666-9536) - June 2023
• Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (ISSN: 1939-1374) - March 2021
• Reviewer - A manuscript on Differential Privacy, IEEE ACCESS (ISSN: 2169-3536) - November 2020
• Reviewer - Journal of Mobile Multimedia (ISSN: 1550-4646) - June 2020
• Reviewer - Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, Elsevier (ISSN: 1674-862X) - May 2020
• Reviewer - IEEE ACCESS (ISSN: 2169-3536) - January 2020
• Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) (ISSN: 1551-3203) - August 2019
• Reviewer - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) (ISSN: 2327-4662) - July 2019
• Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) (ISSN: 1939-1374) - June 2019
• Reviewer - Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) (ISSN: 1438-8871) - April 2019
• Reviewer - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ), Elsevier (ISSN: 2001-0370) - October 2018
• Reviewer - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ), Elsevier (ISSN: 2001-0370) - May 2018
• Reviewer - International Journal of Computers and Applications (TJCA) (ISSN: 1925-7074) - June 2018