TRUST Systems Lab
Trustworthy, Resilient, and Secure Intelligent Systems
Director
Founder & Director, TRUST Systems Lab
Current Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · Huston-Tillotson University
Al Amin, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the TRUST Systems Lab, an independent research initiative at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, and distributed intelligent systems. His long-term goal is to build the TRUST Systems Lab — the Trustworthy, Resilient, Unified, Secure & Transparent Intelligent Systems Laboratory — around three interconnected research thrusts: secure and privacy-preserving distributed intelligence; AI security, cyber defense, and forensics; and trustworthy autonomous and agentic AI.
Research Program
The lab's work spans three interconnected thrusts addressing the security, resilience, and trustworthiness of modern intelligent systems.
Building machine learning and data-sharing systems that remain accurate and useful even when data, participants, or infrastructure cannot be fully trusted.
Learn moreUnderstanding how intelligent systems are attacked, defended, and investigated — from adversarial machine learning to digital forensics of AI-driven incidents.
Learn moreEnsuring AI agents that retrieve knowledge, invoke tools, and act autonomously remain explainable, accountable, and aligned with human intent.
Learn moreScholarship
Recent and featured publications from the lab.
Al Amin, et al.
AI-SQE at ICSE, 2026
Al Amin et al. "Multilingual Code Evaluation with LLM-as-a-Judge: AI-Assisted Feedback for Human-Centric Understanding." AI-SQE at ICSE, 2026.
Al Amin, et al.
IEEE ICNC, 2026
Al Amin et al. "Privacy-Preserving Federated Vision Transformer Learning Leveraging Lightweight Homomorphic Encryption in Medical AI." IEEE ICNC, 2026.
Al Amin
IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2026
Al Amin. "SENTINEL: A Multi-Pathway Architecture for Detecting Living-off-the-Land APT Attacks on Windows Command Lines." IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2026.
The Team
Meet the researchers behind the lab's work.
Director
Founder & Director, TRUST Systems Lab
Student Researcher
AI & Cybersecurity Researcher
Huston-Tillotson University
Researcher since 2026
Mariam Mumbili is an undergraduate researcher in the TRUST Systems Lab and a B.S. Computer Science student at Huston-Tillotson University. Drawing on her programming background in Python and Swift and her cybersecurity coursework, she studies privacy, security, and trust in federated and distributed AI systems.
Research Interests: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy, Secure Aggregation, Explainable AI, Trustworthy AI
Student Researcher
AI & Cybersecurity Researcher
Huston-Tillotson University
Researcher since 2026
Anish Lamichhane is an undergraduate researcher in the TRUST Systems Lab and a B.S. Computer Science student at Huston-Tillotson University. Building on his experience in applied AI engineering, agentic workflows, and multi-agent applications, he studies federated-learning security and secure agentic AI systems.
Research Interests: Federated Learning Security, Backdoor Detection, Agentic AI Security, Multi-Agent Systems, Tool-Use Security, Human-in-the-Loop AI
Student Researcher
AI & Cybersecurity Researcher
Huston-Tillotson University
Researcher since 2026
Biraj Lamichhane is an undergraduate researcher in the TRUST Systems Lab and a B.S. Computer Science student at Huston-Tillotson University. Drawing on his background in machine-learning pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI-agent development, he studies security, robustness, and forensic analysis in federated and distributed AI systems.
Research Interests: Federated Learning Forensics, Client Attribution, Adversarial Machine Learning, RAG Security, Provenance-Aware AI, Robust Federated Learning
Student Researcher
AI & Cybersecurity Researcher
Huston-Tillotson University
Researcher since 2026
Faa-Ha Dilu-Lahi Alaby Babalola is an undergraduate researcher in the TRUST Systems Lab and a Computer Science student at Huston-Tillotson University. Building on his background in software engineering, secure backend systems, authentication, and application development, he explores secure agentic AI systems and trustworthy autonomous software.
Research Interests: Agentic AI Security, Secure Autonomous Agents, Tool-Use Security, AI-Assisted Software Engineering, Application Security, Trustworthy Intelligent Systems
Student Researcher
AI & Cybersecurity Researcher
Huston-Tillotson University
Researcher since 2026
Ifedolapo Jojolola is an undergraduate researcher in the TRUST Systems Lab and a Computer Science student at Huston-Tillotson University. Drawing on experience in machine learning, AI evaluation, fairness analysis, data pipelines, and AI governance, she explores trustworthy agentic and multimodal AI systems for security-sensitive and human-centered applications.
Research Interests: Trustworthy Agentic AI, Multimodal AI, AI Safety and Evaluation, Explainable and Fair AI, AI Governance and Security, Medical and Human-Centered AI
Get Involved
The TRUST Systems Lab welcomes motivated undergraduate and graduate students, as well as external collaborators, interested in trustworthy and secure intelligent systems.