Shakil Mahmud
Assistant Professor
About
Dr. Shakil Mahmud is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western Washington University, joining in Fall 2025. He previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi.
He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida, where his research focused on hardware security, physiological closed-loop control systems, and AI/ML for resource-constrained devices. Following his doctorate, he worked as a Postdoctoral Electronics Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory, contributing to firmware development for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
His research focuses on hardware security, reconfigurable computing, cyber-physical systems security, embedded systems, AI for edge devices, and energy-efficient system design.
Educational and Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 2025-Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Oxford, Mississippi, 2024-2025
Postdoctoral Electronics Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, 2023-2024
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 2018-2023
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011-2015
Recent Publications
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