publications

Publications and research manuscripts.

2026

  1. In Review
    ThermoCAPTCHA: Eliminating Transferable CAPTCHA Tokens via Physical-Context Binding
    Shovon Paul, Md Imran Hossen, and Xiali Hei
    2026
    Under review

2025

  1. DSN
    LiveGuard: Voice Liveness Detection via Wavelet Scattering Transform and Mel Spectrogram Scaling
    Liqun Shan, Xingli Zhang, Md Imran Hossen, and 1 more author
    In The 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025
    cited by 3
  2. ECRA
    DP-SGD-Global-Adapt-V2-S: Triad Improvements of Privacy, Accuracy and Fairness via Step Decay Noise Multiplier and Step Decay Upper Clipping Threshold
    Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Md Imran Hossen, Liqun Shan, and 4 more authors
    Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier), 2025
    cited by 2

2024

  1. SecureComm
    Can’t Say Cant? Measuring and Reasoning of Dark Jargons in Large Language Models
    Xu Ji, Jianyi Zhang, Ziyin Zhou, and 5 more authors
    In International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2024
  2. arXiv
    Assessing Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Code Large Language Models
    Md Imran Hossen, Jianyi Zhang, Yinzhi Cao, and 1 more author
    2024
    arXiv
    cited by 25
  3. arXiv
    On the Adversarial Robustness of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models for Code
    Md Imran Hossen and Xiali Hei
    2024
    arXiv
    cited by 3

2023

  1. USENIX Sec
    Auditory Eyesight: Demystifying μs-Precision Keystroke Tracking Attacks on Unconstrained Keyboard Inputs
    Yazhou Tu, Liqun Shan, Md Imran Hossen, and 3 more authors
    In USENIX Security Symposium, 2023
    PDF
    cited by 11
  2. SecTL
    A First Look at the Security of EEG-based Systems and Intelligent Algorithms under Physical Signal Injections
    Md Imran Hossen, Yazhou Tu, and Xiali Hei
    In ACM AsiaCCS Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Deep Learning Systems (SecTL), 2023
    cited by 13

2022

  1. EuroS&P
    aaeCAPTCHA: The Design and Implementation of Audio Adversarial CAPTCHA
    Md Imran Hossen and Xiali Hei
    In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2022
    HTML
    cited by 19
  2. Chapter
    Generating Device Fingerprints for Smart Device Pairing Using the Unique Spectrum Characteristic From LEDs
    Md Imran Hossen, Md Abdullah Al Momin, and Xiali Hei
    In Advances in Privacy Preservation and Cyber Threat Intelligence (IGI Global), 2022
  3. PhD Thesis
    Research on Attacks, Defenses and Designs of Image and Audio CAPTCHAs
    Md Imran Hossen
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2022

2021

  1. WOOT
    A Low-Cost Attack against the hCaptcha System
    Md Imran Hossen and Xiali Hei
    In 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), 2021
    PDF
    cited by 27
  2. BMC MIDM
    Stacked LSTM Based Deep Recurrent Neural Network with Kalman Smoothing for Blood Glucose Prediction
    Md Fazle Rabby, Yazhou Tu, Md Imran Hossen, and 3 more authors
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021

2020

  1. RAID
    An Object Detection based Solver for Google’s Image reCAPTCHA v2
    Md Imran Hossen, Yazhou Tu, Md Fazle Rabby, and 3 more authors
    In 23rd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2020
    PDF
    cited by 51