Staff & Faculty Directory
Kazi Ahmed
Teaching Assistant Professor; Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology, College of Engineering & Computing Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Expertise: AI and Semantic Communication and Security 5G/6G/LTE network and Cyber Security Connected Vehicles and Security Wireless Sensor Network and Security IoT/Cyber-Physical System Security Stochastic Computing based Hardware for Baseband processing and Security
Joined New York Tech: 2023
Kazi J. Ahmed, Ph.D., has been teaching electrical and computer engineering since 2001. In 2023, he joined New York Tech as a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology. Ahmed’s research is focused on 5G/6G technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), communication, and cybersecurity. His work has been featured in several publications, and he holds patents. Ahmed has collaborated with academic researchers around the world, which resulted in several grants from recognized organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan. He is also involved in research collaboration with a Korean team from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Sejong University, and Chung Ang University.
Kazi Ahmed obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The City College of New York in 2018.
- Leading one of the industry projects for ECET Students titled “Replacement of the PATH Back-Up Train Control Center (HOBAN),” Spring 2026 – Fall 2026
- Member of US Collaborators (CUNY): NICT Adoption No.-05501 Research and development of floating cyber-physical systems and wide-area cooperation that achieve low latency and autonomy
- PI: NSF-1956291 Stochastic Computing Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) for IoT Devices ($224K)
- EL: NSF-1925694 I-Corps 2019 ($50K)
- Kazi J. Ahmed, Myung J. Lee, Tsukamoto K., “Novel Activation Functions: SCigmoid and SCoftmax in Stochastic Computing (SC) Deep Neural Network for Resource-Constrained IoT Security,” The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2026), Japan, September 2026.
- Kazi Ahmed, Myung Lee, “Lightweight Security Posture for Digital Twin–Enabled Industrial IoT Systems,” The 5th International Collaboration Workshop on Computation and Communication Innovation, March 18–20, 2026, San Jose State University, California, USA.
- Kazi Ahmed, Myung Lee, Hang Hu, Muhammad Irfan, Yu Wang, Yang G. Kim, “High Accuracy Training of Stochastic Computing-Based Host Intrusion Detection System for Smart Resource-Constrained-IoT,” The 22nd International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC), August 4–6, 2025, Leuven, Belgium.
- Muhammad Irfan, Hang Hu, Myung Lee, Arslan Qadir, Yang G. Kim, Kazi Ahmed, Daiki Nobayashi, “Flow-level Bandwidth Allocation on P4 Tofino Switch with In-Network DRL Inference,” The 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in information and communication (ICAIIC-2025) February 18–21, 2025.
- Hang Hu, Myung Lee, Marco Hernandez, Yang Kim, Kazi Ahmed, Kazuya Tsukamoto.,” DDPG-based Wireless Resource Allocation for Time-Constrained Applications,” 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) April 21–24, 2024.
- Kazi Ahmed, Myung Lee, “Stochastic Computing based HIDS system for 5G/6G/IoT devices,” The 2nd International Collaboration Workshop on Computation and Communication Innovation, October 2–4, 2023, City College of NY, NY, USA.
- Yang G. Kim, Kazi J. Ahmed, Myung J. Lee, Tsukamoto K.,”A Comprehensive Analysis of Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection System for IoT-23 Dataset,” in the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS-2022, September 2022.
- Kazi J. Ahmed, Yang G. Kim, Myung J. Lee, Tsukamoto K., “Stochastic Computing-based Baseband Processing for Resource Constraint IoT Devices,” in the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, INCoS-2022, September 2022.
- Ahmed, K.J., Hernandez M., Lee M., Tsukamoto K.,”End-to-End Security for Connected Vehicles.”in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2020, vol 1263. Springer, Cham.
- K. J. Ahmed and M. J. Lee, “Secure Resource Allocation for LTE-Based V2X Service,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 11324–11331, Dec. 2018.
- K. J. Ahmed, B. Yuan and M. J. Lee, “High-Accuracy Stochastic Computing-Based FIR Filter Design,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, AB, 2018, pp. 1140–1144.
- K. J. Ahmed, and Myung J. Lee ,”Stochastic Computing based High-accuracy FIR Filter Design,” US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, August, 2018.
- K. J. Ahmed and M. J. Lee, “Secure LTE-Based V2X Service,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 3724–3732, Oct. 2018.
- K. J. Ahmed, M. J. Lee and J. Li, “Layered scalable WAVE security for VANET,” MILCOM 2015 – 2015 IEEE Military Communications Conference, Tampa, FL, 2015, pp. 1566–1571
- CTEC 208 Programming Techniques II
- CTEC 235 Microcomputers I
- CTEC 243 Applied Computational Analysis I
- CTEC 336 Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
- CTEC 350 Microcontroller Based Systems
- ETEC 110 Electrical Technology 1
- ETEC 131 Electronics Technology 1
- ETEC 231 Electronics Technology II
- ECET 310 Communication Circuits
- ETEC 422 Wireless Communications Technology
- ETEC 495 Senior Design