Technical trainer and mentor
North East University Bangladesh
I ran Arduino and ESP8266 workshops in the robotics lab, taking classmates from circuit theory to working hardware.
About
Eftakhar Ahmed Arnob
Sylhet to Auburn, by way of a robotics lab and three ICPC regionals.
I grew up building things that move. A robotic arm, after the budget for a control glove ran out. A car you could drive over the internet from another continent. A pump that watched a water tank so nobody else had to.
I studied Computer Science at North East University Bangladesh in Sylhet, spent three years on the ICPC circuit, and finished my degree writing a neural network that could look at half a drawn shape and finish it.
In 2024 I moved to Auburn, Alabama, to start a PhD, and turned the same question around. Instead of teaching a machine to see what isn't there, I started asking what happens when someone stops a machine from seeing what is.
- Role
- Cyber-Physical Systems Security Researcher
- Lab
- Cyber-Physical Security Lab
- Department
- Computer Science and Software Engineering
- College
- Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
- University
- Auburn University
- Advisor
- Dr. Yazhou Tu
- Since
- Aug 2024
- Based in
- Auburn, Alabama
Chronology
Sylhet to Auburn
In order, oldest first. The electronics and the vision work come first; the security work is what I built out of both of them.
- 01Jan 2019 – Jun 2023
B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering
North East University Bangladesh · Sylhet
Three ICPC Dhaka regional onsite contests, a university programming championship, and a robotics lab I ended up teaching in.
- 022022 – 2023
Undergraduate researcher
NEUB · Advisor: Noushad Sojib
I built an encoder–decoder model for 2D partial natural shape recognition that predicts the trajectory a sensor missed.
- 032022 – Aug 2024
Research affiliate, soft robotics
NiFELab, Auburn University · Supervisor: Dr. Jean-François Louf
I built the control electronics for plant-inspired poroelastic soft robots. The work went to four conference talks, and to a tactile-sensing paper now accepted to Soft Robotics.
- 042023 – 2024
Software engineer
Dorik Inc.
I wrote production web software alongside the research.
- 05Aug 2024 – present
PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering
Cyber-Physical Security Lab, Auburn University · Advisor: Dr. Yazhou Tu
I broke nine cameras with light, built two training-free defences out of optical physics, filed two provisional patents, and ran the disclosure with Google, Amazon and Arlo.
The record
Contests and awards
The placing is the fact worth reading here. The organising body only says where it happened, so it sits quietest.
National 90th, 103rd, 141st
ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional, onsite
International Collegiate Programming Contest
2020 · 2021 · 2022
World 1677th · National 13th
Google Code Jam, qualification round
Google Coding Competitions
2021
2nd runner-up
SJ Innovation Hackathon, team Gladiators
Educational category
2021
Champion
NEUB Eid Mubarak Programming Contest
North East University Bangladesh
2019
1st position
National Talent Hunt Competition
District level
2014
Teaching
Three roles I held at North East University Bangladesh — the hardware, the algorithms, and the coursework in between.
ACM programming workshop mentor
North East University Bangladesh
I coached junior students in algorithmic problem-solving for national contests.
Teaching assistant
North East University Bangladesh
I assisted on undergraduate CSE coursework.
Skills
Grouped, not ranked. I have no honest score out of ten for any of this, so I don’t print one.
- Research
- Cyber-physical systems security
- Computer vision
- Adversarial optical physics
- Robotics control
- SLAM
- Sensor fusion
- Languages
- Python
- C
- C++
- Java
- Kotlin
- MATLAB
- JavaScript
- Hardware
- Arduino
- ESP32 / ESP8266
- Optical and laser testbeds
- Microcontroller programming
- Tools
- PyTorch
- OpenCV
- LaTeX
- Git
- Android Studio
Contact
Write to me.
Email reaches me. If you’re here about the camera work, the disclosure process or a collaboration, put that in the subject line. The CV carries the full record.