Syed Alam, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept

Personal Website: https://www.seqbal.com/

Contact

Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Engineering - Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
Email
syed.eqbal@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Distributed optimization Federated optimization Differential privacy Internet-of-things Federated learning Distributed estimation Fault detection


About

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Before enrolling in the Ph.D. program, I was a lecturer at Taif University, Saudi Arabia. I taught undergraduate computer science courses—object oriented programming, data structure and algorithms, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and discrete mathematics. Furthermore, I obtained a Master of Technology degree from the International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore (IIIT-B), India.

     


Research

 My interest is in performing research that leads to excellent theories and exciting applications. I am broadly engaged with distributed optimization, federated optimization, differential privacy, Internet-of-things, federated learning, and algebraic structures.


Teaching

Data structure and algorithms, Discrete mathematics, Object oriented programming, Distributed systems, Artificial intelligence.

Featured Publications

Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla

62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC, Singapore. 2023 December; 10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384067


Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla, Shrisha Rao

59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA. 2023 September; 10.1109/ALLERTON58177.2023.10313432


Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla

59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA. 2023 September; 10.1109/Allerton58177.2023.10313434


Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla, Shrisha Rao

IEEE Access. 2023 June; 11 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3283503


Syed Eqbal Alam and Dhirendra Shukla

American Control Conference, ACC, San Diego, CA, USA. 2023 May; 10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155852


Syed Eqbal Alam, Dhirendra Shukla

2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 2022 September; 10.1109/isc255366.2022.9921890


Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth and Jia Yuan Yu

Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives. 2020 March; (ISBN: 978-3-030-35031-4): 125-149 10.1007/978-3-030-35032-1_9


Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth, Jia Yuan Yu

2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton). 2018 October; 10.1109/allerton.2018.8635929


Syed Eqbal Alam, Robert Shorten, Fabian Wirth, Jia Yuan Yu

2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 2018 September; 10.1109/isc2.2018.8656964


Syed Eqbal Alam, Shrisha Rao, Bijan Davvaz

Journal of Applied Math.. 2013 May; 2013 10.1155/2013/482391


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