Service
Dr. Akter actively contributes to the academic community through editorial leadership, peer review, and university governance. She is committed to advancing the fields of AI, cybersecurity, and software security through rigorous scholarly service.
Editorial Service
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2025: Guest Editor, Electronics (MDPI, Impact Factor: 2.6; CiteScore: 5.3) — Special Issue: "Computer Networking Security and Privacy." Responsibilities include coordinating peer review, selecting reviewers, and making editorial recommendations.
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2025: Guest Editor, Electronics (MDPI) — Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Practices, Challenges, and Innovations."
Conference & Journal Reviewing
2025
- Reviewer: Expert Systems with Applications, Entropy, Sensors, CMES — Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Electronics, Software Quality Journal (Springer)
- Program Committee: IEEE COMPSAC 2025, IEEE SERVICES 2025, IEEE BigData 2025 (6 papers)
- Session Chair: IEEE BigData 2025
2024
- Program Committee: IEEE COMPSAC 2024, IEEE SERVICES 2024, IEEE Big Data 2024
- Journal Reviewer: Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Entropy, Sensors, Electronics
2023
- Session Chair at IEEE Services (ICDH) 2023
- Reviewer: IEEE COMPSAC 2023 (6 papers), IEEE SERVICES 2023 (3 papers), EMNLP 2023 (3 papers), IEEE Big Data 2023 (5 papers), ACM SAC 2024 (3 papers)
- Journal Reviewer: IEEE Access, Security and Communication Networks (Hindawi), Connection Science, Transactions on Network and Service Management, Scientific Reports
2022
- Reviewer: SIGCSE TS 2023
- Machine Learning Session Chair at IEEE Big Data 2022
University Service
- Member, Senate Budget Review Committee (SBRC), Oakland University
- Member, CSE Undergraduate Affairs Committee (UAC), Oakland University
- Supervising multiple Ph.D. students in dissertation research, guiding project completion and publication preparation
- Ph.D. Advisor: Md Shazzad Hossain Shaon, Md Fahim Sultan, Tasmin Karim (all actively publishing)
- Ph.D. Committee Member: Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Syeda Sadia Alam
- Mentoring students on research methodology, grant opportunities, and academic career development
- Writing and managing grant proposals (NASA MSGC Seed Grant — awarded 2025)