Alumni Member
Niaz Chowdhury (Alumni) 
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, Aisling Third, Chris Valentine
News
Publications
Chowdhury, M.J.M., Ferdous, M.S., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N. and Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2020). COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Challenges and Future Directions. IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions, 8 pp. 225703–225729. https://oro.open.ac.uk/81825/.
Chowdhury, M.J.M., Usman, M., Ferdous, M.S., Chowdhury, N., Harun, A.I., Jannat, U.S. and Biswas, K. (2022). A Cross-Layer Trust-based Consensus Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Using Fuzzy Logic. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(16), pp. 14779–14789. https://oro.open.ac.uk/75786/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Third, A., Chowdhury, N., Bachler, M. and Domingue, J. (2020). Supporting Lifelong Learning with Smart Blockchain Badges. International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, 13(3 & 4), pp. 163–176. https://oro.open.ac.uk/75146/.
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. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71083/.
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. In: IoT4Safe, in conj. with Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2020, 31 May - 1 Jun, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/70313/.
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. In: A Decentralised Web Workshop, 20-24 Apr 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/69607/.
Chowdhury, N., Ramachandran, M., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Bachler, M. and Domingue, J. (2020). Towards A Blockchain-based Decentralised Educational Landscape. In: The Twelfth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020), 21-25 Nov 2020, Valencia, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/69608/.
Chowdhury, M.J.M., Ferdous, M., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N., Kayes, A., Alazab, M. and Paul, W. (2019). A Comparative Analysis of Distributed Ledger Technology Platforms. IEEE Access, 7 pp. 167930–167943. https://oro.open.ac.uk/68271/.
Ferdous, M.S., Chowdhury, M.J.M., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, N. and Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2020). Immutable Autobiography of Smart Cars Leveraging Blockchain Technology. Knowledge Engineering Review, 35 https://oro.open.ac.uk/68215/.
Khatun, M.A., Chowdhury, N. and Uddin, M.N. (2019). Malicious Nodes Detection based on Artificial Neural Network in IoT Environments. In: 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dec 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh. https://oro.open.ac.uk/68039/.
Chowdhury, N. (2019). An IoT and Blockchain-based Approach for Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Regulatory Compliance. In: 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), Sep 2019, London, United Kingdom. https://oro.open.ac.uk/62556/.
Chowdhury, N., Price, B., Smith, A., Gooch, D. and van der Linden, J. (2019). 50 Shades of Green and Brown: Comparing Grid Carbon Intensity with Consumption for Households with PV Generation and Battery Storage. In: 2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 11-13 Nov 2018, Long Beach, CA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/61711/.
Chowdhury, N. and Moore, J. (2018). Attention Management for Improved Renewable Energy Usage at Households Using IoT-enabled Ambient Displays. In: UbiComp '18: 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, 08-12 Oct 2018, Singapore. https://oro.open.ac.uk/57581/.
Moore, J., Kortuem, G., Smith, A., Chowdhury, N., Cavero, J. and Gooch, D. (2016). DevOps for the Urban IoT. In: 2nd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT '16), 24-25 May 2016, Tokyo. https://oro.open.ac.uk/47701/.
