Md Karim earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is a Professor of Computer Science and the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Southern Arkansas University. He also serves as the Director of the Computer Science graduate program. In the past, he was a researcher at the Center for Secure Cyberspace at the Louisiana Tech University. His research interests include cyber security, privacy, deep reinforcement learning, and causal interpretation. He worked on various research projects sponsored by DARPA, AFOSR, AFRL, and NASA. He is currently a co-lead in an NSF EPSCoR project on data analytics that will receive $20M support over five years.