Md Saikat Islam Khan

Hi! My name is Md Saikat Islam Khan, and I am a third-year PhD student in the BRAINS Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My advisor is Dr. Oshani Seneviratne.

Research Interests

I am a PhD student in the BRAINS Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where my research focuses on advancing distributed learning and explainability. I develop methods for privacy-preserving and robust training across vertically and horizontally partitioned data, alongside model-agnostic frameworks that generate sparse, actionable counterfactual explanations.

Currently, I am extending this work to complex question answering over distributed knowledge graphs. We aim to support multi-hop reasoning and query answering in federated settings without exposing raw entities, relations, or embeddings.

More broadly, my research analyzes and reconciles the trade-offs between privacy, robustness, interpretability, and utility in realistic deployment scenarios, supported by rigorous mathematical guarantees.

Education

Selected Publications

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