Member
Niaz Chowdhury 
Research Assoc. for Blockchain Learning Verification
I'm a researcher primarily working with various aspects of blockchain technology. I have diverse, yet well-connected research experiences gathered from three nations in the British and Irish Isles: Ireland, Scotland and England. I presently hold a Research Associate position in the Open Blockchain group at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University where I investigate the problems of blockchain learning verifications as well use-cases that can be fit into this new and innovative technology. Beside blockchain, I also have a keen interest in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Privacy & Trust and Data Science. Prior to my current position, I completed two other postdocs, one at the KMi and the other in the Department of Computing and Communication in the same university where I worked in the Strategic Data Science project and smart city project MK-Smart respectively.
I obtained my PhD from the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, as a recipient of the Scottish ORS Scholarship in conjunction with the Glasgow University College of Science and Engineering Scholarship. I was also a research scholar at the School of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin where I received Govt. of Ireland IRCSET Embark Initiative Scholarship. My earlier background is in Computer Science and Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh where I pursued a bachelor and a masters degree with Gold Medal distinction.
Keys: Blockchain, Internet of Things, Data Science, Privacy
Team: Michelle Bachler, Rachel Coignac-Smith, John Domingue, Zeeshan Jan, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Kevin Quick, Manoharan Ramachandran, Allan Third, Chris Valentine
News
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Publications
Chowdhury, N., Ramachandran, M., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Bachler, M. and Domingue, J. (2020) Towards A Blockchain-based Decentralised Educational Landscape, The 12th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020), Valencia, Spain
Eisenstadt, M., Ramachandran, M., Chowdhury, N., Third, A. and Domingue, J. (2020) COVID-19 Antibody Test / Vaccination Certification There's an app for that, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1, pp. 148-155, IEEE
Ramachandran, M., Chowdhury, N., Third, A., Domingue, J., Quick, K. and Bachler, M. (2020) Towards Complete Decentralised Verification of Data with Confidentiality: Different ways to connect Solid Pods and Blockchain, A Decentralised Web Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan
Ramachandran, M., Chowdhury, N., Third, A., Jan, Z., Valentine, C. and Domingue, J. (2020) A Framework for Handling Internet of Things Data with Confidentiality and Blockchain Support, IoT4Safe, in conj. with Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2020, Heraklion, Greece
Chowdhury, N. (2019) An IoT and Blockchain-based Approach for Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Regulatory Compliance, Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2019 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '19), London, United Kingdom