Ph.D. Candidate · MTSU

Samir Poudel

I build distributed AI systems that preserve privacy. My research spans federated learning, blockchain security, and robust machine learning.

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About Me

Research background and interests

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Computational and Data Science at Middle Tennessee State University, with a background in Software Engineering.

My research builds privacy-preserving distributed AI systems that span federated learning, blockchain security, and robust machine learning.

Research Interests

Federated LearningBlockchain SecurityBig Data AnalyticsDeep LearningNLPComputer VisionCybersecurityPrivacy-Preserving ML

Education

Ph.D. Computational & Data Science
Middle Tennessee State University
Aug 2023 – Present
B.S. Software Engineering
Pokhara University
2014 – 2018

Publications

0 peer-reviewed publications · 0 total citations

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Experience, Skills & Talks

3+ years research at MTSU · 10+ international conferences · Full-stack & ML expertise

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Projects

Selected research and engineering projects

Academic Tracker

Full-stack grade tracker with AI syllabus extraction, live grade calculator, and animated progress visualization per course.

Next.jsSupabaseGroq AI
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I-140 Insights

Tracks USCIS I-140 immigration cases across all service centers by enumerating receipt numbers, with automated scraping and analytics dashboard.

FastAPIReactPostgreSQL
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Edge-Case Backdoor Detection (RBBD)

Representation-based defense framework for federated learning, reducing attack success rates below 15%.

Federated LearningSecurityPyTorch

Privacy-Preserving Environmental Monitoring

Federated learning framework using satellite imagery for deforestation detection, achieving 0.85 IoU.

Federated LearningComputer VisionUNet

Cloud Fake News Detection

Serverless AWS solution (BERT/LSTM) with 94.9% accuracy and low latency.

NLPAWSBERT

Credit Card Fraud Detection

PySpark/Airflow batch system achieving 94.9% accuracy with imbalanced data.

PySparkAirflowML
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Research Figures

Architectures and visualizations from published work

Federated Learning Architecture

Federated Learning Architecture

Fake News Detection System

Fake News Detection System

GAN Educational Architecture

GAN Educational Architecture

QuadraCode AI

QuadraCode AI

IoT Framework

IoT Framework

UNETeM Architecture

UNETeM Architecture

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