Ashfak Md Shibli

Researcher & Software Engineer

MS, Computer Science

AI/MLCybersecurityApplication Dev
2024
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Athlete Den LLC
Building AI Sports Analytics
2023
Tennessee Tech
NJIT
MS Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity
Robotics Competition
Robotics Competition
Volunteer
2022
Lead Software Engineer
Lead Software Engineer
Samsung R&D
Innovation - Mobile Application

Latest News

Dec 15, 2025

Received Employee of the Year award at Athlete DenNew

New York, USA

Dec 1, 2025

Submitted SMS Phishing survey paper to IEEE Access (under review)New

IEEE Access (Under Review)

Nov 10, 2025

Received Eminence Award 2025 (MS Best Paper) from Tennessee Tech UniversityNew

Cookeville, TN, USA

Jun 4, 2025

Presented paper "SmishViz: Towards A Graph-based Visualization System for Monitoring and Characterizing Ongoing Smishing Threats" at ACM CODASPY 2025New

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

ACM CODASPY 2025

Feb 15, 2025

Led STEM education outreach at University of Tennessee Chattanooga Open HouseNew

Chattanooga, TN, USA

May 20, 2024

Presented research poster on SMS Phishing Detection using LLMs

San Francisco, CA, USA

45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)

May 14, 2024

Started as Full Time Software Engineer at Athlete Den LLC

New York, USA

May 14, 2024

AbuseGPT paper published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Apr 29, 2024

Presented AbuseGPT paper

San Antonio, TX, USA

12th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (IEEE ISDFS)

Mar 31, 2024

Successfully defended MS Thesis on Cybersecurity and AI

Smishing (SMS Phishing) Attacks and Defenses: Current Concerns, Campaign Infrastructures, and Towards A Scoring-based Defense System

Tennessee Tech University, TN, USA

Feb 10, 2024

Volunteered as First Lego League Robotics competition manager

Tennessee Tech University, TN, USA

Dec 15, 2023

Survey paper on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Security published

Langkawi, Malaysia

IEEE International Conference on Computing (ICOCO)

About

Education

Tennessee Technological University

Tennessee Technological University

MS in Computer Science

Aug 2023 - Aug 2024

GPA: 4.00/4.00

AI and cybersecurity research within the joint MS program.

New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology

MS in Computer Science

Sep 2022 - May 2023

GPA: 4.00/4.00

Healthcare security, static analysis, and TA/RA foundations

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology

BSc in Computer Science and Engineering

Mar 2013 - Nov 2017

GPA: 3.53/4.00

Core software engineering and systems background.

Experience

Athlete Den

Athlete Den

Software Engineer

May 2024 - Current

Leading ML pipeline architecture, mobile AI optimization, and analytics infrastructure.

PythonPyTorchGoogle CloudFirebaseComputer Vision
Athlete Den

Athlete Den

Software Engineer Intern

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Built early model-training and data-labeling workflows for sports analytics prototypes.

PythonLabeling PipelineGCPData Processing
Tennessee Technological University

Tennessee Technological University

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2023 - May 2024

Developed SMS phishing detection systems and mentored 100+ students per semester.

BERTPythonD3.jsNetworkXGraphviz
New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

Sep 2022 - May 2023

Worked on PHI leakage detection, STRIDE modeling, and static analysis research.

PythonMachine LearningSTRIDEStatic Analysis
Samsung Research

Samsung Research

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2018 - Aug 2022

Delivered secure cloud-connected products and automated testing systems.

SwiftC#REST APIsNoSQLWinAppDriver

Research Collaborations

Speed Lab, Florida Atlantic University

Jul 2024 - Current

Industry research collaborator for adversarial security analysis on multimodal models.

  • Adversarial attack experiments on LLM/VLM workflows
  • Prompt-engineering based threat-generation analysis
  • Dataset curation for automated vehicle security scenarios

University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Jul 2024 - Current

Collaboration on iterative evaluation frameworks for vision-language model research.

  • Generator-evaluator loop analysis for multimodal systems
  • Document-understanding evaluation strategy design
  • Study of iterative refinement vulnerabilities and quality patterns

Projects

Professional

Athlete Den LLC

AI Sports Analysis Platform

Athlete Den LLC

May 2024 - Current (Intern: May 2023 - Aug 2023)

Professional

Patent-pending AI-powered sports analytics platform

Key Technologies

Swift
Python
PyTorch
OpenCV
Firebase
GCP

Highlights

  • Real-time athlete activity detection
  • Mobile-optimized ML models
  • Cloud infrastructure integration
  • Patent-pending technology
Samsung R&D

Samsung Family Hub

Samsung R&D

2018-2022

Professional

Smart refrigerator application with cloud connectivity

Key Technologies

Swift
Firebase

Highlights

  • Secure API architecture
  • 99% crash reduction
  • Real-time notifications
  • Multi-threaded data handling
Samsung R&D

Samsung Galaxy Buds

Samsung R&D

2020-2022

Professional

Windows application for Galaxy Buds management

Key Technologies

ASP.NET
C#
Bluetooth Security Protocols

Highlights

  • Secure firmware updates
  • Bluetooth protocol implementation
  • Encrypted data transmission
  • Automated testing framework

Research

Tennessee Tech

SMS Phishing Detection

Tennessee Tech

2023

Research

Novel system for detecting SMS-based phishing attacks

Key Technologies

Python
PyTorch
ML and AI
Data Visualization
Threat Scoring

Highlights

  • Custom threat detection scoring
  • AI model integration
  • Pattern analysis system
  • Published research
NJIT

Healthcare Data Protection

NJIT

2022

Research

PHI leakage analysis in healthcare applications

Key Technologies

Python
Static Analysis
Threat Modeling
Security Testing

Highlights

  • Static analysis system
  • STRIDE threat modeling
  • Automated security testing
  • Healthcare compliance

Personal

Personal Project

AI Course Advisor

Personal Project

2025

Personal

LLM-powered web app for intelligent academic course advising.

Key Technologies

Python
Gemini API
Flask Backend
CI/CD Deployment

Highlights

  • Built recommendation flow from course + preference analysis
  • Implemented backend architecture in Flask
  • Automated deployment pipeline from GitHub
  • Delivered functional advisor demo experience
Personal Project

Generalized Price Tracker

Personal Project

2025

Personal

Generalized e-commerce price monitoring system using LLM-assisted extraction.

Key Technologies

Python
Claude API
Data Extraction Pipeline
Price Change Monitoring

Highlights

  • Designed universal page parsing without site-specific DOM rules
  • Automated price-change detection across diverse websites
  • Used LLM-guided extraction for flexible scraping workflows
  • Built reusable monitoring architecture for future expansion

Publications

Research work in AI, Cybersecurity, and Computer Vision

Under Review

Nature Sci Reports

Secure Yet Fragile: Adversarial Vulnerabilities of Federated Vision-Language Models in Medical AI

A. M. Shibli, A. Imteaj, et al.

Nature Scientific Reports (Nature Sci Reports)

2026

Journal manuscript on adversarial vulnerabilities in federated VLM systems for medical AI.

AI SecurityMedical AIVLMsFederated LearningUnder Review
IterVLM

IterVLM: An Iterative Evaluation Framework for Vision-Language Models

A. M. Shibli, et al.

Manuscript (IterVLM)

2026

Framework for iterative generator-evaluator analysis and quality tracking in VLM pipelines.

VLMsEvaluationMultimodal AIIterative SystemsUnder Review
IEEE Access

Short Message Service (SMS) Phishing: Attack Characterization, Defense Landscape, and Future Directions

M. M. A. Pritom, A. M. Shibli, S. M. M. Hossain, M. Mia, S. M. Sanjari

IEEE Access (IEEE Access)

2025

Comprehensive study of SMS phishing attacks, current defenses, and open research directions.

SmishingCybersecurityThreat ModelingDefenseUnder Review

Published

ACM CODASPY

SmishViz: Towards A Graph-based Visualization System for Monitoring and Characterizing Ongoing Smishing Threats

Seyed Mohammad Sanjari, Ashfak Md Shibli, Maraz Mia, Maanak Gupta, Mir Mehedi Ahsan Pritom

ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY)

2025 · Pittsburgh, PA

Graph-based visualization system for monitoring and characterizing ongoing smishing threats. Visualization software: https://smishviz.com/

SecurityVisualizationSmishingGraphConference
IEEE S&P

Use of LLM-based Generative AI Chatbots for Smishing Attacks and Defenses

A. M. Shibli, M. M. A. Pritom

45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)

2024 · San Francisco, CA

Novel research on generative AI for SMS phishing detection and defense.

AI/MLCybersecurityLLMsPoster
ISDFS

AbuseGPT: Abuse of Generative AI ChatBots to Create Smishing Campaigns

A. M. Shibli, M. M. A. Pritom, M. Gupta

12th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS)

2024 · San Antonio, TX

Research on AI-driven security threats in mobile communications.

SecurityAIMobileConference
ICOCO

Survey on Security Attacks in Connected and Autonomous Vehicular Systems

S. M. Mostaq Hossain, S. Banik, T. Banik, A. M. Shibli

IEEE International Conference on Computing (ICOCO)

2023 · Langkawi, Malaysia

Comprehensive analysis of autonomous vehicle security vulnerabilities.

SecurityIoTVehiclesConference
Springer AISC

Developing a Vision-Based Driving Assistance System

Shibli, A.M., Hoque, M.M., Alam, L.

Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (Springer AISC)

2019

Computer vision system for real-time driver monitoring.

Computer VisionAISafetyBook Chapter

Awards

Total Recognitions

5

Latest Milestone

2026

Focus Areas

Research + Industry

Tennessee Technological University, College of Engineering

Eminence Award 2025 - MS Best Paper

Tennessee Technological University, College of Engineering

2025

Recognized for best paper contributions from the MS research track, reflecting impact in cybersecurity and AI research output.

Research
Athlete Den

Employee of the Year

Athlete Den

2025

Awarded for technical leadership in AI model architecture, mobile optimization, and product commercialization support.

Industry
Samsung Research

ICON of the Month

Samsung Research

May 2019, Nov 2020

Two-time recognition for engineering excellence and high-impact execution across consumer product initiatives.

Industry
Samsung Research

Outstanding Collaborator

Samsung Research

2021

Recognition for cross-team collaboration and delivery effectiveness on mobile and desktop engineering programs.

Professional
International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security

Best Paper Award

International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security

Feb 2018

Best paper recognition for early vision-based driving assistance research work and conference presentation impact.

Research
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