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Academic appointments, education, teaching, research support, and service.

Contact Information

Name Imran Hossen
Professional Title Assistant Professor
Email mdimran-hossen [at] utc [dot] edu
Location University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Professional Summary

Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Research: offensive security for AI systems — LLM and agent security, CAPTCHA attacks and design, and physical / side-channel attacks on ML.

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • 2022 - 2025

    Lafayette, LA, USA

    Postdoctoral Researcher in AI Security
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Studied security vulnerabilities in LLMs and AI coding assistants, and led Meta-funded research on differential privacy for federated learning with clinical data.
  • 2021 - 2022

    Lafayette, LA, USA

    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • Designed and implemented aaeCAPTCHA, an audio CAPTCHA built on adversarial examples, and evaluated its resistance to modern ASR systems alongside human usability.
    • Developed a low-resource automated solver that broke 95.93% of hCaptcha challenges in our 2021 study.
    • Built an object-detection-based solver with an 83.25% success rate against Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 in our 2020 online evaluation.
    • Developed an NLP/ML framework for extracting cyber threat intelligence from hacker-forum data.
  • 2019 - 2021

    Lafayette, LA, USA

    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • Taught Introduction to Cyber Security (CMPS 315) and System Administration and Maintenance (INFX 450).
  • 2018 - 2019

    Lafayette, LA, USA

    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Education

  • 2018 - 2022

    Lafayette, LA, USA

    Ph.D.
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Computer Science
    • Advisor: Dr. Xiali Hei
  • 2012 - 2016

    Khulna, Bangladesh

    B.S.
    Khulna University of Engineering & Technology
    Electronics & Communications Engineering

Teaching

  • Fall 2026: CPSC 3600 Principles of Information Security and Assurance (UTC)
  • Fall 2026: CPSC 4660/5660 System Vulnerability Analysis and Auditing (UTC)
  • Spring 2026: CPSC 4620/5620 Computer Network Security (UTC)
  • Fall 2025: CPSC 4660 System Vulnerability Analysis and Auditing (UTC)

Grants

  • CyberAI Innovation: Closing the CyberAI Skills Gap Through Low-Barrier, Portable Laboratory Modules for AI-Augmented Security Operations and the Security of AI Systems. NSF, PI, $500,000 requested, 2027–2029 (pending proposal).
  • Investigating Security Issues in Instruction-Tuned Large Language Code Models. NSF NAIRR Pilot, co-PI, 4,000 GPU hours of compute support, 2024.
  • Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Minimized fNIRS Data. Meta (Facebook), proposal writer, $149,180, 2021–2022.

Academic Service

  • Web Chair: EAI SmartSP 2024 — International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles.
  • Program Committee: VehicleSec’25 (3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy).
  • Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH); USENIX Security 2020; IEEE EuroS&P 2022; IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2022; Journal of Information Security and Applications 2022.

Mentoring

  • Research mentoring of Ph.D. students at UL Lafayette: Shovon Paul and Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti.