Publications

2026

1. CVPR’26

   

   When Data Is Scarce, Learn to Adapt: Robust Federated Learning via Adversarial Meta-Optimization

   Md Zarif Hossain, Awal Ahmed Fime, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Feb 2026

   Ranked #1 CS Conference

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2025

1. CVPR’25

   SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models

   Md Zarif Hossain and Ahmed Imteaj

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2025

   Ranked #1 CS Conference

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2. CVPR’25

   Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicles with Vision-Language Models under Targeted and Untargeted Adversarial Attacks

   Awal Ahmed Fime, Md Zarif Hossain, Saika Zaman, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

   Ranked #1 CS Conference

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3. IEEE TSC

   Quantifying Robustness and Sustainability Trade-off in Federated Adversarial Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems

   Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Ahmed Imteaj, and Abdur R. Shahid

   IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Dec 2025

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4. ICCV’25

   Pose to Protect: Federated Skeleton-Based Anomaly Detection for Privacy-Conscious Video Surveillance

   Dina Famouri, Md Zarif Hossain, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In WiCV Workshop at IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct 2025

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5. IEEE TAI

   Blockchain-Empowered Cybersecure Federated Learning for Trustworthy Edge-Computing

   Ervin* Moore, Ahmed* Imteaj, Md Zarif Hossain, and 1 more author

   IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2025

   Authors contributed equally

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6. AAAI’25

   Exploring Audio Editing Features as User-Centric Privacy Defenses Against Emotion Inference Attacks

   M. F. I. Soumik, W. K. M. Mithsara, Abdur R. Shahid, and 1 more author

   In AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence, Mar 2025

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7. AAAI

   Benchmarking Large Language Models for Resource-Efficient Medical AI at the Edge

   Awal Ahmed Fime, Md Zarif Hossain, Saika Zaman, and 2 more authors

   In AAAI Spring Symposium, Mar 2025

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8. ICMLA’25

   A New Federated Learning Approach for Imbalanced Medical Image Datasets

   A. Tiwari, Z. Ni, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In 24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Dec 2025

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9. ICMLA’25

   Breaking and Securing Vision-Language Models: An Adversarial Robustness Study

   Md Zarif Hossain, Abdur R. Shahid, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In 24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Dec 2025

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10. ICMLA’25

    Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Stress Detection from Wearables with Attention Fusion and Federated Learning

    M. F. I. Soumik, E. M. Nima, Awal Ahmed Fime, and 3 more authors

    In 24th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Dec 2025

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2024

1. IEEE TAI

   Securing User Privacy in Cloud-Based Whiteboard Services Against Health Attribute Inference Attacks

   Abdur R. Shahid and Ahmed Imteaj

   IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2024

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2. BigData’24

   Securing Vision-Language Models with a Robust Encoder Against Jailbreak and Adversarial Attacks

   Md Zarif Hossain and Ahmed Imteaj

   In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Dec 2024

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3. ICDCS’24

   FLAMINGO: Federated Learning and Adversarial Meta Training with Consistency Regularization

   Md Zarif Hossain and Ahmed Imteaj

   In 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jul 2024

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4. ICMLA’24

   TriplePlay: Personalizing, Balancing and Streamlining Foundation Models for Federated Learning

   Ahmed Imteaj, Md Zarif Hossain, Saika Zaman, and 1 more author

   In 23rd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Dec 2024

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5. COMPSAC’24

   WatchOverGPT: A Framework for Real-Time Crime Detection and Response Using Wearable Camera and Large Language Models

   Abdur R. Shahid, Syed Mhamudul Hasan, M. W. Kankanamge, and 2 more authors

   In 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Jul 2024

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6. COMPSAC’24

   FedAVO: Improving Communication Efficiency in Federated Learning with African Vultures Optimizer

   Md Zarif Hossain and Ahmed Imteaj

   In 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Jul 2024

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7. INFOCOM’24

   Context-Aware Spatiotemporal Poisoning Attacks on Wearable-Based Activity Recognition

   Abdur R. Shahid, Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Ahmed Imteaj, and 1 more author

   In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2024

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8. ICC’24

   Towards Sustainable SecureML: Quantifying Carbon Footprint of Adversarial Machine Learning

   Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Abdur R. Shahid, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In GreenNet Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2024

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9. COMPSAC’24

   Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Through Particle Swarm Optimization and Knowledge Distillation

   Saika Zaman, S. Talukder, and Ahmed Imteaj

   In 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Jul 2024

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10. SusTech’24

    Generative AI-Based Land Cover Classification via Federated Learning CNNs: Sustainable Insights from UAV Imagery

    Oleksandr Jockusch, Md Zarif Hossain, Ahmed Imteaj, and 1 more author

    In IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), Apr 2024

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2023

1. AAAI’23

   FedMDP: A Federated Learning Framework to Handle System and Model Heterogeneity in Resource-Constrained Environments

   Ahmed Imteaj and M. Hadi Amini

   In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Feb 2023

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2. SMARTCOMP

   Assessing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Differentially-Private Federated Learning

   Abdur R. Shahid, Ahmed Imteaj, Shahrear Badsha, and 1 more author

   In IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Jun 2023

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3. DSC

   FLID: Intrusion Attack and Defense Mechanism for Federated Learning Empowered Connected Autonomous Vehicles

   Md Zarif Hossain, Ahmed Imteaj, Saika Zaman, and 3 more authors

   In IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), Oct 2023

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