Sheikh Ghafoor

Sheikh Ghafoor is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Mississippi State University in 2007 under the mentorship of Ioana Banicescu and Tomasz Haupt, after serving as a research associate at Mississippi State University's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.

Research Interests:

• Parallel, Distributed, and High-Performance Computing
• Autonomic Resource Management for HPC Environments
• Programming Models for Heterogeneous HPC
• Cybersecurity and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Computational Earth Science (flood modeling)
• Security in Vehicular and SCADA Networks
• Computer Science Education Research

Student Achievements:

• Md Bulbul Sharif: Best Paper at PASC 2020, travel grants to SC20 and SC18
• Debolina Halder: ChaTech Scholarship 2020, travel grant to SC20
• Ryan Marshall: Best Paper at ICCIT 2018
• Sheikh Rabiul Islam: Ivanhoe Fellowship 2017, two papers at IEEE Big Data 2018
• Mohammad Arman Ullah: Travel grant to IEEE Secure Development Conference 2017
• Md Mosharaf Hossain: Travel grant to SC17