Farzana Rahman

Grant

Experience

Education

Research

My research spans the domains of mobile healthcare, healthcare data analytics, and pervasive health technologies. Broadly, my research focuses on integrating mobile and pervasive technologies in health and wellness environments to improve users’ quality of life, mental and physical wellbeing. My research also expands in the direction of mobile security, information and communication technology for development (ICT4D), broadening participation in CS/ IT discipline through the exploration of 1) discipline-based education research to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities; 2) success factors contributing to the persistence and success of students (both traditional and non-traditional) in introductory programming courses; 3) how different pedagogical practices can increase underrepresented student performance in CS/IT courses; 4) factors of success impacting student performance in online and inverted classrooms within computing majors and 5) how effective re-entry pathways can facilitate transition of returning women in computing based discipline.

Note for Potential Students

I am actively recruiting stduents, both at undergrad and grad level to work on different research projects. If you are interested to work with me or take an independent study course, please send me an email or stop by my office hour. My schedule fills up 2 weeks in advance (3-4 weeks towards the end of the semester), so please plan accordingly and for faster response use email to communicate with me.

Past students

• Rakesh Boyina (SU, currently working)
• Vaishnavi Prashant Subhedar (SU, currently working)
• Sinchana Sulugodu Shashidhara(SU, currently working)
• Cesar Reyes(FIU, joined DoD)
• Jaya Tyagi (SU, Joined Amazon)
• Can Luo (SU, Joined Smarter Grid Solutions)
• Vindhya Ravi Prakash (SU, Joined HP)
• Marissa Halpert (JMU, Joined iStrategyLabs)
• Jamie Martin (JMU, Joined ASM Research)
• Jing Feng (JMU, Joined Columbia University)
• Karina Bekova (JMU, Joined FireEye, Inc.)
• Susan Chatfield (JMU, Joined National Sojourners Inc)
• Laura Vandyuke (JMU, Joined AECOM)

Teaching

Syracuse University

• CIS 351: Data Structure (Sp20, Fall20, Sp21, Fall21)
• CSE 283: Introduction to Object-Oriented Design(Sp20, Sp21, Sp22)
• CIS 400: Pervasive Computing (Fall20, Fall21)
• CIS 341: Computer Organization & Programming Systems (Sp 22)

Florida International University

• COP 2210: Computer Programming (Sp 18, Sum 18, Fall 18, Sp19, Sum 19)
• CDA 4101: Structured Computer Organization (Sp 18, Sum 18, Fall 18, Sp19, Sum 19)

James Madison University

• CS139/149: Object Oriented Programming (Fall 13, Sp 14, Fall 14)
• CS159: Advanced Object Oriented Programming (Fall 16, Fall 17, Fall14)
• CS240: Data Structure with C++ (Sp 14, Sp 15, Fall 16)
• CS480: Mobile Application Development (Sp 15)
• CS685: Secure Mobile Computing (Fall 17)

Selected Recent Publications

Please visit my DBLP for more recent publication list

2022

• Farzana Rahman, Elodie Billionniere, and Vaishnavi Subhedar Prashant "Diversifying the Face of Computing through Re-entry Initiatives for Returning Women". To appear in Proc. of the 523rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE '22). 2022.

2021

• Farzana Rahman, Elodie Billionniere, Brandeis Marshall, Hyunjin Seo and Tami Forman. Debugging the Diversity Tech's Gap through (Re-)entry Initiatives in Emerging Technologies for Women. In Proc. of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE '21). 2021.
• Farzana Rahman and Jaya Tyagi. Investigating the Role of Different Prep Pathways on CS2 Performance Across three Different Majors. In Proc. of the 22st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. (SIGITE '21) , 2021.
• Farzana Rahman, Elodie Billionniere, Ann Quiroz Gates, Felesia Stukes. Equipping and Empowering Faculty through Professional Development to Create a Future-Ready Workforce in Emerging Technologies. In Proc. of the 22st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, (SIGITE '21) , 2021.
• Farzana Rahman and Elodie Billionniere. Re-Entering Computing through Emerging Technology: Current State and Special Issue Introduction. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), v.21 , 2021.

2020

• Farzana Rahman. Understanding Barriers and Motivations of Non-Traditional Students Learning Programming in an Online CS1 Course. In Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE '20). 2020.
• Farzana Rahman and Tiana Solis. Transforming the Learning Experience of Non-Traditional Students in an Online CS1 Course through Peer-Instruction. In Proc. of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, (SIGCSE '20).
• Farzana Rahman. Through the Looking-Glass: Barriers, Motivations, and Desires of Non-Traditional Students Learning Programming in an Online CS1 Course. In Proc. of Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology Conference (RESPECT' 20). 2020.
• Elodie Billionniere, Farzana Rahman, Brandeis Marshall, and Tami Forman. Debugging the Gender Gap: (Re-)entry Initiatives in Emerging Technologies for Women. In Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, (SIGITE '20). 2020.
• Farzana Rahman and Elodie Billionniere. "Cultivating Next Generation Emerging Technology Workforce through Academia-Industry Partnerships" Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE '20) , 2020.
• Elodie Billionniere, Farzana Rahman, Quincy Brown and Hyunjin Seo. Role of Academia to Create Re-entry Pathways in Computing. In Proc. of the 5th IEEE Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT’20). 2020.
• Elodie Billionniere, and Farzana Rahman. Redesigning Learning Spaces and Credentials for 21st-Century Emerging Tech Careers. In Proc. of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE' 20), 2020.
• Farzana Rahman, Elodie Billionniere, Quincy Brown, Ann Quiroz Gates. RESET (Re-Enter STEM through Emerging Technology): Finding Re-Entry Pathways for Women. In Proc. of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE' 20). 2020.

2019

• Farzana Rahman and Samy El-Tawab. App Development for the Social Good: Teaching Socially Conscious Mobile App Development in an Upper-Level Computer Science Course. In Proceedings of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE 2019), Orlando, FL, July 2019.
• Claire Fulk, Grant Hobar, Kevin Olsen, Samy El-Tawab, Puya Ghazizadeh, and Farzana Rahman. Cloud-based Low-cost Energy Monitoring System through Internet of Things. To appear in Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop of Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2019), in Conjunction with IEEE Percom 2019. Japan, March 2019.

2018

• Farzana Rahman. Integrating Project-Based Learning in Mobile Development Course to Enhance Student Learning Experience. In Proceedings of the the 19th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Ft Lauderdale, FL, October 2018.
• Farzana Rahman. Leveraging Visual Programming Language and Collaborative Learning to Broaden Participation in Computer Science. In Proceedings of the the 19th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Ft Lauderdale, FL, October 2018.
• Saiyma Sarmin, Nafisa Anzum, Kazi Hasan Zubaer, Farzana Rahman, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam. Securing Highly-Sensitive Information in Smart Mobile Devices through Difficult-to-Mimic and Single-Time Usage Analytics. To Appear In Proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous),November 2018.
• Farzana Rahman. From App Inventor to Java: Introducing Object-oriented Programming to Middle School Students Through Experiential Learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE), Salt Lake City, UT, July 2018.
• Farzana Rahman, Perry Fizzano, Evan M. Peck, Shameem Ahmed, and Stu Thompson: How to Build a Student-Centered Research Culture for the Benefit of Undergraduate Students. To appear ACM SIGCSE 2018. (Abstract only)
• Farzana Rahman, Mohsen Dorodchi: Effective POGIL Implementation Approaches in Computer Science Courses. To appear ACM SIGCSE 2018. (Abstract only)
• Farzana Rahman, Healthy Hankerings: Motivating Adolescents to Combat Obesity with a Mobile Application. To appear 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2018.

2017

• Farzana Rahman, Helen H. Hu, Dennis Brylow, Clif Kussmaul: Bringing Undergraduate Research Experience in Non-R1 Institutions. ACM SIGCSE 2017: 671-672
• Farzana Rahman, Md. Endadul Hoque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed: AnonPri: A secure anonymous private authentication protocol for RFID systems. Elsevier Journal of Inf. Sci. 379: 195-210 (2017)
• A. K. M. Jahangir Alam Majumder, Yosuf ElSaadany, Mohammed ElSaadany, Donald R. Ucci, Farzana Rahman: A wireless IoT system towards gait detection in stroke patients. IEEE PerCom Workshops 2017: 449-454
• Farzana Rahman, Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed: A privacy preserving framework for RFID based healthcare systems. Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Comp. Syst. 72: 339-352 (2017)
• Farzana Rahman, Susan Chatfield: Detecting Wandering Behaviour in Patients with Dementia with a Mobile Application. 2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), Cambridge, MA, 2017. (Poster)
• Farzana Rahman, Suzanne Matthews, Kelly A. Shaw, Andrea Danyluk: Can we really do it?: Conducting Significant Computer Science Research in Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) (Abstract Only). ACM SIGCSE 2017: 729

2016

• Farzana Rahman, Ivor D. Addo, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Ji-Jiang Yang, Qing Wang: Privacy Challenges and Goals in mHealth Systems. Advances in Computers 102: 47-62 (2016). (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman. Improving Class Experience and Performance in CS1 Course Using JiTT and Peer Instruction. In proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn 2016). Volume 2016, Number 1.
  
• Sajeda Akter, Farzana Rahman, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam: Securing app distribution process of iOS exploiting the notion of authentic update. NSysS 2016: 1-8 [Best Paper Award] (.pdf)

• Farzana Rahman, Dee A. B. Weikle: Juggling the Jigsaw: Enabling CS1 Growing Enrollment and Diversity at Undergraduate Institutions (Abstract Only). SIGCSE 2015: 694 (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Jennifer Stevens, Sharon Simmons: CS 4 Everyone: Diversifying the K-12 Pipeline for CS at College and High School Level (Abstract Only). SIGCSE 2015: 701 (.pdf)

• F. Rahman, M. O. Gani, G. M. T. Ahsan and S. I. Ahamed, "Seeing Beyond Visibility: A Four Way Fusion of User Authentication for Efficient Usable Security on Mobile Devices," Software Security and Reliability-Companion (SERE-C), 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on, San Francisco, CA, 2014, pp. 121-129. (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. 2014. Efficient detection of counterfeit products in large-scale RFID systems using batch authentication protocols. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 18, 1 (January 2014), 177-188. (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Drew Williams, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Ji-Jiang Yang, and Qing Wang. 2014. PriDaC: Privacy Preserving Data Collection in Sensor Enabled RFID Based Healthcare Services. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE '14). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 236-242. (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Ivor D. Addo, and Sheikh I. Ahamed. 2014. PriSN: a privacy protection framework for healthcare social networking sites. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 66-71. (.pdf)

• Farzana Rahman, Md. Endadul Hoque, Sheikh I. Ahamed, and Mohammad Arif Ul Alam. 2013. Preserving User Privacy in Pervasive Environments with a Collaborative Model. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability Companion(SERE-C '13). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 84-93. (.pdf)
• Akm Jahangir Alam Majumder, Farzana Rahman, Ishmat Zerin, William Ebel, Jr., and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. 2013. iPrevention: towards a novel real-time smartphone-based fall prevention system. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 513-518. (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Ji-Jiang Yang, Qing Wang: PriGen: A Generic Framework to Preserve Privacy of Healthcare Data in the Cloud. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013, Singapore, June 19-21, 2013.(.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed: Towards Improving Reliability of Computational RFID Based Smart Healthcare Monitoring Systems. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2013, Singapore, June 211-217, 2013. (.pdf)
• Farzana Rahman, Casey O’Brien, Colin Ostberg, Nahid Negar, Duc Do, Sheikh I. Ahamed, Roger Smith. Measuring Font Signage with a Smartphone Application for ADAAG Compliance Assessment. In Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Conference (RESNA 2013), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2013. (.pdf)

• Paul Henninger, David Kegley, Keegan Sullivan, James Yoo, and Farzana Rahman. Healthy Hankerings: Obesity Control in Adolescent with Healthy Food Picker Mobile Application. In Grace Hopper Conference (GHC 2016).
• Marissa Halpert and Farzana Rahman. D.I.G.I.T.A.L: DUKES INSPIRING GIRLS INTO TECHNOLOGY ACROSS LIMITS. Poster in ACM W Cleberation of Southeast Women in Computing Conference (SEWIC 2013).
• Karina Bekova and Farzana Rahman. Reducing health inequities using a mobile based intervention for maternal and child healthcare in rural Bangladesh. Poster in ACM W Celebration of Capital Region Women in Computing Conference (CAPWIC 2013).
• Aimee Cunningham, Laura VanDyke, and Farzana Rahman. LearnMyEmotion: Monitoring of Autism Spectrum Disorder using Mobile Devices. Poster in ACM W Celebration of Capital Region Women in Computing Conference (CAPWIC 2013).

Service

Program Committee Member

ACM SIGCSE 2014-2018, IEEE FIE 2018, IEEE COMPSAC 2013-2018, IEEE NSysS 2014-2018, IEEE DependSys 2015-2018, IEEE DCAS 2016-2017, IEEE STPSA 2014-2016, ACM RACS 2013- 2014, IEEE SocialCom 2015, Women in Cyber Security Conference (WiCyS) 2017, Grace Hopper Celebration 2014-2018

Co-Chair for Workshop

IEEE PerIoT 2017–2019 co-located with IEEE PerCom, IEEE ID&IS4TS 2018 co-located with IEEE ITSC, IEEE eIoT 2016–2017 and IEEE STPSA 2013-2015 co-located with IEEE COMPSAC

Co-Chair for Conference

Faculty Track of Grace Hopper Celebration 2018-2019, ACM-W Capital Area Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2015-2017