Publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

2026

  1. CVPR’26
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    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

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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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

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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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

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
  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
  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