CV
Ayesha Samreen
Summary
PhD student in Computer Science at Iowa State University
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science2028 expectedIowa State University
- M.S. in Computer Science2023The University of Texas at Dallas
- B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering2020Chaitanya Bharathi Insitute of Technology
Work Experience
- Graduate Research AssistantMay 2025 - PresentIowa State UniversityConducting research in Responsible and Trustworthy AI with a focus on differential privacy and fairness in deep learning models.
- Graduate Teaching AssistantJan 2025 - PresentIowa State UniversityAssisted in delivering lectures and recitations for the computer science undergrad courses. Held weekly office hours to support student learning. Assisted in designing and grading assignments, quizzes, and exams.
- Enterprise Tools Engineering InternJun 2023 - Dec 2023Staples IncWorked on modernizing the service portal, created ATF test suites, and managed day to day incidents on ServiceNow platform.
Publications
- PLRV-O: Advancing Differentially Private Deep Learning via Pivacy Loss Random Variable Optimization2025ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)It is a novel framework to design and optimize noise distribution by directly embedding PLRV into noise's PDF. It significantly improves performance under strong privacy constraints.
- Efficient Fair Learning with Subset Selection2023UTD Theses and DissertationsThis work is about fair and efficient machine learning which uses bi-level optimization approach to enhance fairness, overall accuracy, and reduce the computational cost.
- Brain Tumor Detection by Using Convolution Neural Network2020International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE)This work aimed to increase the efficiency in detecting brain tumor using convolution neural network.
- Monitoring of Patient Critical Health Parameters by using a Low-Cost IoT based System2020Journal of Xidian University
- Low Cost IoT Based Emission Monitoring System for Thermal Power Plants2019Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT)