CV

Experience, education, awards, and service. Download the full CV as a PDF above, or browse the sections below.

Contact Information

Name Md Kamruzzaman Sarker
Professional Title Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Email msarker@bowiestate.edu
Location Computer Science Building, Room 320, 14000 Jericho Park Road, Bowie, MD 20715-9465

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Research spans Explainable AI, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, and Cybersecurity.

Experience

  • 2023 - Present

    Bowie, MD, USA
    Assistant Professor (tenure track)
    Bowie State University, Department of Computer Science
  • 2025 - 2025

    Oak Ridge, TN, USA
    Visiting Faculty
    US Department of Energy — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 2021 - 2023

    West Hartford, CT, USA
    Assistant Professor
    University of Hartford, Department of Computing Sciences
  • 2021 - 2021

    Manhattan, KS, USA
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Kansas State University, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
  • 2019 - 2020

    Manhattan, KS, USA
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Kansas State University, Department of Computer Science
  • 2019 - 2019

    Hillsboro, OR, USA
    Artificial Intelligence Intern
    Intel Corporation
  • 2016 - 2019

    Dayton, OH, USA
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Wright State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  • 2017 - 2017

    Dublin, Ireland
    Artificial Intelligence Intern
    Accenture Technology Labs
  • 2013 - 2015

    Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Software Engineer
    Samsung Research & Development Institute Bangladesh (SRBD)

Grants

  • Preparing Students for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Tech Careers through Industry Partnerships and Experiential Learning — National Science Foundation, ExLENT Program, Award #2526289. $998,567. Aug 2025–Jul 2028. Co-PI (PI: Rosemary Shumba; Co-PI: Hoda El-Sayed). Bowie State University.
  • Image Classifier with Interactive Web Interface — University System of Maryland Launch Fund / Occolo. $7,949. Jan–Apr 2026. Bowie State University.
  • Faculty Research Mentor Grant — Bowie State University Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI). $5,000/year (2023, 2024, 2025).
  • Vincent B. Coffin Grant — University of Hartford. $3,500. 2021–2022.
  • Resource Grant — Deep Learning Computing Cluster — University of Hartford. $40,000. 2022.

Education

  • 2016 - 2020

    Manhattan, KS, USA

    PhD
    Kansas State University
    Computer Science
    • Dissertation: “Towards Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Based on Contextualizing Data with Knowledge Graphs”
    • Supervisor: Pascal Hitzler
  • 2016 - 2019

    Dayton, OH, USA

    M.S.
    Wright State University
    Computer Science
    • Transferred to Kansas State University to complete the PhD
  • 2016 - 2018

    Dayton, OH, USA

    Graduate Certificate
    Wright State University
    Big and Smart Data
  • 2009 - 2013

    Khulna, Bangladesh

    B.Sc.
    Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Dean’s Award, senior year

Awards

  • 2025
    Outstanding Early Career Faculty
    Bowie State University

    Recognized for early-career research and teaching contributions.

  • 2024
    Best Faculty in Collaboration
    Bowie State University

    Awarded for collaborative research and teaching contributions.

  • 2020
    Exploring Entrepreneurship Scholarship
    Kansas State University

    Amount: $1,000.

  • 2019
    Travel Grant — Tutorial Presenter
    33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019)

    Hawaii, USA.

  • 2019
    Travel Grant — Tutorial Presenter
    2nd U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS 2019)

    North Carolina, USA.

  • 2017
    Travel Grant — Ontology Modeling Presenter
    DCVoCamp 2017

    Washington, DC, USA.

  • 2016
    Nominee, Best Demo Award
    15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

    Kobe, Japan.

  • 2013
    Dean's Award
    Khulna University of Engineering & Technology

    Awarded in senior year of undergraduate studies.

Service

  • Editorial Board Member, Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence (journal), 2022–present. Guest editor, Semantic Web Journal special issue: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and the Semantic Web.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Future Artificial Intelligence and Technologies, 2023–present.
  • Program committees / NSF Panel Reviewer, 2020–2025. NSF panel reviewer (2022–2025); program committee for ICLP 2023, IEEE SSCI 2022, SemREC 2022, KGSWC 2021–2022, IJCLR 2021–2022, ISWC 2021, CSSA @ ECML/PKDD 2021 and CIKM 2020, PRAXIS @ ISWC 2020.
  • Reviewer, 2017–2024. AAAI (2022–2024), IJCAI, Semantic Web Journal (2019, 2023–2024), MDPI Applied Math (2022–2024), ISWC (2017, 2020), KGSWC 2019, ICCA 2020, SemDeep-6 @ IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Semantic Explainability Workshop @ IEEE ICSC.
  • Open-source research software, 2016–present. ECII: knowledge-graph-based data analysis software, pivotal to $1M in DARPA/AFRL funding (github). OWLAx: visual ontology development tool (github). ROWLTab: SWRL rule-to-OWL-axiom converter (github).

Talks

  • On Explainable AI: From Theory to Motivation, Applications and Limitation — Tutorial (Organizer/Presenter), 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), Hawaii, USA.
  • On the Role of Data Semantics for Explainable AI — Tutorial (Organizer/Presenter), 2nd U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS 2019), North Carolina, USA.
  • Methods and Tools for Modular Ontology Modeling — Tutorial (Presenter), 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, CA, USA.