- November 2025: Tamim received the competitive AWS Graduate Student Scholarship awarded by EECS.
- October 2025: Invited to serve on the technical program committee of VNC'26 and ECRTS'26.
- September 2025: Invited to serve on the technical program committee of RTAS'26.
- August 2025: Received the NSF CAREER award for a 5-year funding to detect and mitigate information leakage in time-critical cyber-physical systems.
- April 2025: Honored with the EECS Teaching 360 Award for teaching excellence and curricular contributions in computer systems.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington State University, leading the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Research Lab (CPS2RL). Previously, held an Assistant Professor position at the School of Computing, Wichita State University from 2021-2022.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Doctoral work focused on securing real-time systems, particularly integrating security as a first-class design principle in real-time schedulers.
Background
Research Interests: Building trustworthy computer systems; Current research focus includes: (a) Security in real-time and cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, and vehicular communication networks, (b) Building predictable and trustworthy machine learning models, and (c) Digital agriculture cybersecurity.
Miscellany
Looking forward to hiring two PhD students who will be working on the topics related to (i) security and resiliency of real-time and CPS/IoT/V2X/edge systems, (ii) quantum cyber-physical systems, and (iii) building resource-aware real-time machine learning frameworks.