{"id":2001,"date":"2025-10-14T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafizimtiaz.buet.ac.bd\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:17:56","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hafizimtiaz.buet.ac.bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2001\" class=\"elementor elementor-2001\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a1b2c3d4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a1b2c3d4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e5f6g7h8\" data-id=\"e5f6g7h8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-i9j0k1l2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-homepage_hero\" data-id=\"i9j0k1l2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"homepage_hero.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t        <section style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #1a365d, #2c5282);\" class=\"text-white py-16\">\r\n            <div class=\"container mx-auto px-4\">\r\n                <div class=\"flex flex-col md:flex-row items-center\">\r\n                    <div class=\"md:w-2\/3 mb-8 md:mb-0\">\r\n                        <h2 class=\"text-3xl md:text-4xl font-bold mb-4 hero-title\">Advancing Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning<\/h2>\r\n                        <p class=\"text-xl mb-6 hero-subtitle\">Specializing in developing classical and neural-network based machine learning algorithms in privacy-constrained decentralized-data settings.<\/p>\r\n                                                <a href=\"mailto:hafizimtiaz@eee.buet.ac.bd\" class=\"bg-accent hover:bg-blue-600 text-white font-medium py-2 px-6 rounded-full transition inline-block\">\r\n                            Contact                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"md:w-1\/3 flex justify-center\">\r\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hafizimtiaz.buet.ac.bd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hafiz_Imtiaz_2016.jpg\" \r\n                             alt=\"Advancing Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning\" \r\n                             class=\"w-48 h-48 md:w-64 md:h-64 rounded-full border-4 border-white shadow-xl\">\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/section>\r\n        \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-m3n4o5p6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"m3n4o5p6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-q7r8s9t0\" data-id=\"q7r8s9t0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-u1v2w3x4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-about_me_summary\" data-id=\"u1v2w3x4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"about_me_summary.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"bg-white rounded-lg shadow-md p-6 md:p-8\">\r\n            <h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold text-primary mb-6 pb-2 border-b border-gray-200\">About Me<\/h2>\r\n            <div class=\"grid md:grid-cols-3 gap-8\">\r\n                <div class=\"md:col-span-2 prose max-w-none text-gray-700\"><p>Hello visitor,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>I am serving as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). I earned my PhD degree from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rutgers University<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in beautiful Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, where I had the opportunity to work with\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.rutgers.edu\/~asarwate\/\">Prof. Anand Sarwate<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In this website, you will find information about my teaching, research interests, my CV, links to my papers and links to some tutorials that I wrote about random things.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Thank you for visiting my website.<\/p><\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"bg-gray-50 p-6 rounded-lg\">\r\n                    <h3 class=\"font-semibold text-lg mb-4 text-primary\">Education<\/h3>\r\n                    <ul class=\"space-y-4\">\r\n                                                    <li>\r\n                                <h4 class=\"font-medium\">Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering<\/h4>\r\n                                <p class=\"text-sm text-gray-600\">Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA (2020)<\/p>\r\n                            <\/li>\r\n                                                    <li>\r\n                                <h4 class=\"font-medium\">Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/h4>\r\n                                <p class=\"text-sm text-gray-600\">Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA (2017)<\/p>\r\n                            <\/li>\r\n                                                    <li>\r\n                                <h4 class=\"font-medium\">Master of Science in Electrical Engineering<\/h4>\r\n                                <p class=\"text-sm text-gray-600\">Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2011)<\/p>\r\n                            <\/li>\r\n                                            <\/ul>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        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machine learning<\/h3>\r\n                    <p class=\"text-gray-600 text-sm\">Developing algorithms for training classical and neural-network models on privacy-sensitive data<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                <div class=\"bg-gray-50 p-6 rounded-lg hover:shadow-md transition\">\r\n                    <div class=\"text-accent mb-3\"><svg class=\"h-8 w-8 e-font-icon-svg e-fas-bolt\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 320 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M296 160H180.6l42.6-129.8C227.2 15 215.7 0 200 0H56C44 0 33.8 8.9 32.2 20.8l-32 240C-1.7 275.2 9.5 288 24 288h118.7L96.6 482.5c-3.6 15.2 8 29.5 23.3 29.5 8.4 0 16.4-4.4 20.8-12l176-304c9.3-15.9-2.2-36-20.7-36z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\r\n                    <h3 class=\"font-semibold text-lg mb-2\">Matrix and tensor factorization<\/h3>\r\n                    <p class=\"text-gray-600 text-sm\">Factorizing high dimensional matrix and tensor for recommendation systems and 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