Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Ph.D.

Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Ph.D.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Central Arkansas. Research areas include quantum machine learning, health informatics, cybersecurity, and software engineering.

Grants & Awards

Selected fellowships, grants, awards, and academic honors.

Fellowships

  • NSF-EMBS-Google Sponsored Young Professional NextGen Scholar, 2025
  • Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship, 2024–2025
  • ACM PEARC23 Student Program Fellowship, 2023
  • SciAuth Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
  • Student Fellow, SDGs Future Fellowship Program, 2022–2023

Grants

Faculty-Led Grants

  • ARISE (Artificial Intelligence Integrated Security Education), NSF SFS (Scholarship Track)
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
    Status: Submitted (2026)
    Budget: $2.5M
  • UCA Quantum Machine Learning Seminar Series, UCA Foundation Faculty Grant
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
    Status: Approved (March 2026)
    Budget: $4,500
  • Quantum Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, URC Faculty Research Grant
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
    Status: Submitted (January 2026)
    Budget: $10,000

Student-Led Grants

  • Human–AI Software Collaboration Models: Measuring Bias in AI-Generated Programming Outputs
    Advancement of Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Fellowship (AURS)
    Program Link
    Status: Submitted (February 27, 2026)
  • CursorVision: AI-Assisted, Webcam-Based Hands-Free Cursor Control for Accessibility
    Advancement of Undergraduate Research in the Sciences Fellowship (AURS)
    Program Link
    Status: Submitted (February 27, 2026)

Awards and Honors

  • Best Poster Award, IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2025
  • Graduate Scholar Award, New York Institute of Technology, 2023
  • Best Paper Award (First Position), IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI), Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, 2022
  • Best Paper Award Nominee, IEEE/ACM CHASE, 2022
  • Special Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH), 2021
  • NSF Travel Grant, IEEE BigData Conference, 2021
  • Travel Award, Kennesaw State University, 2021–2022
  • Gold Medal, Final Year Project, ie-RIICH19 Conference, Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), 2019
  • Dean's Award with Distinction, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia
    Awarded five times for academic excellence.