2026
Agentic Physical AI toward a Domain-Specific Foundation Model
for Energy Systems: A Case Study on Nuclear Reactor Control
Yoon Pyo Lee, Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi,
Sajedul Talukder, Diab Abueidda,
Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
npj Artificial Intelligence
2026
Nature Portfolio
Physical & Agentic AI
Acceptance Rate <10%
Introduces a 360M-parameter Agentic Physical AI model whose control policies are validated through closed-loop reactor simulation. Scaling to 100K scenarios yields ~500× variance collapse and 92% success within ±1% target power.
LAMDA: A Longitudinal Android Malware Benchmark for Concept Drift Analysis
Md Ahsanul Haque, Ismail Hossain, Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol,
Md Jahangir Alam, Suresh Kumar Amalapuram,
Sajedul Talukder, Mohammad Saidur Rahman
14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2026
Trustworthy AI / ML
Acceptance Rate = 28%
Introduces LAMDA, a longitudinal Android malware benchmark with over 1 million apps spanning 12 years and 1,380 malware families. It exposes how concept drift degrades standard detectors and enables systematic study of temporal robustness.
AI-in-the-Loop: Privacy Preserving Real-Time Scam Detection and
Conversational Scambaiting by Leveraging LLMs and Federated Learning
Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md Jahangir Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs / PETS)
2026
Privacy & Security
Acceptance Rate = 20%
Proposes a privacy-preserving system that detects and disrupts scams during active conversations while federated learning updates models without sharing raw data. It maintains ~0.80 engagement with PII leakage at or below 0.0085.
Agent-Fence: Mapping Security Vulnerabilities Across Deep Research Agents
Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam, Yoonpyo Lee,
Jay Yoo, Tanzim Ahad, Syed Bahauddin Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
AAAI Symposium
2026
Agentic AI Security
Introduces AgentFence, a 14-class trust-boundary framework spanning planning, memory, retrieval, tool use, and delegation. With the base model fixed, security-break rates vary from 0.29 to 0.51 across eight agent architectures, revealing architecture-dependent risk.
HALLPERM: Exposing the Safety Illusion in LLM Tool Use via
Implicit Privilege Escalation and Semantic Risk
Md Jahangir Alam, Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala,
Yoonpyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
AAAI Symposium
2026
LLM Security
Reveals a safety blind spot in tool-using LLMs: across 768 evaluations, explicit schema violations occur in only 0.78% of cases while unsafe semantic intent appears in 65.95%, showing that schema compliance does not imply safe behavior.
When Safety Geometry Collapses: Fine-Tuning Vulnerabilities
in Agentic Guard Models
Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Jannatul Ferdaus, Md Jahangir Alam,
Tanzim Ahad, Yoonpyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
AAAI Symposium
2026
Adversarial & Trustworthy AI
Shows that benign domain fine-tuning alone can destroy guard-model safety geometry, driving Granite Guardian's refusal rate from 85% to 0%. The proposed FW-SSR regularization restores 75% refusal and reduces WildGuard attack success to 3.6%.
Semantic Intent Fragmentation: A Single-Shot Compositional Attack
on Multi-Agent AI Pipelines
Tanzim Ahad, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam, Sai Puppala,
Yoonpyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
AAAI Symposium
2026
Multi-Agent AI Security
Introduces SIF, where individually benign subtasks compose into a policy-violating plan, succeeding in 71% of 14 enterprise scenarios while every subtask passes safety filters. Plan-level checking detects all observed attacks with 0% false positives.
2025
LLM-Guided Dynamic-UMAP for Personalized Federated Graph Learning
Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
2025
Federated & Graph Learning
Acceptance Rate = 19.4%
Combines LLM-guided augmentation and reasoning with Dynamic UMAP and Bayesian personalized federated learning, aligning language-model representations with client-specific graph structure for privacy-constrained node classification and link prediction in low-resource settings.
Comprehensive Privacy Risk Assessment in Social Networks Using
User Attributes, Social Graphs, and Text Analysis
Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala,
Sajedul Talukder
36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext)
2025
Social Privacy
Acceptance Rate = 22%
Introduces CPRS, a unified privacy-risk score combining profile attributes, graph structure, and user-generated content. Evaluation on Facebook and Koo data identifies graph structure as the strongest average risk source, while 85% of users found the resulting dashboard clear and actionable.
LLMs Against Digital Deviance: Scalable Hate Speech Detection
in Low-Resource and Code-Mixed Social Media
Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala,
Sajedul Talukder
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
2025
Online Abuse & NLP
Acceptance Rate = 19.6%
Benchmarks LLMs for Bengali hate-speech detection across more than 120K samples, including transliterated and code-mixed text. Fine-tuned LLMs exceed 90% macro-F1, with a DeepSeek–XLM-R ensemble reaching 91.2%.
2024
A Visual Approach to Tracking Emotional Sentiment Dynamics
in Social Network Commentaries
Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md Jahangir Alam,
Sajedul Talukder, Zahidur Talukder
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2024
Computational Social Systems
Acceptance Rate = 19%
Combines RoBERTa-based emotion prediction with recursive comment-thread aggregation to track Approval, Toxicity, Hate, Threat, and related sentiment dynamics over time. The emotion model achieves AUC 0.92, with XGBoost attaining macro-F1 above 0.40.
SAFARI: Self-regulAted Clustered FederAted Learning
in a HeteRogeneous EnvIronment
Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)
2024
Federated & Distributed Learning
Introduces dynamic proximity-based clustering and hybrid decentralized aggregation to reduce federated-learning communication costs. Across five datasets, SAFARI reduces communication requirements by up to 10× while accelerating training and improving energy efficiency.
Distributed Threat Intelligence at the Edge Devices:
A Large Language Model-Driven Approach
Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Alaa M. Alotaibi,
Sajedul Talukder, Abdur R. Shahid
IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC)
2024
Distributed Cybersecurity
Acceptance Rate = 23%
Proposes distributed threat intelligence that combines lightweight edge models, LLM-guided adaptation, and collaborative knowledge sharing. Only suspicious network or system-log information is escalated, supporting responsive and privacy-preserving threat detection and device isolation.
SCALE: Self-Regulated Clustered FederAted LEarning
in a Homogeneous Environment
Sai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md Jahangir Alam,
Zahidur Talukder, Syed Bahauddin,
Sajedul Talukder
IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC)
2024
Acceptance Rate = 23%
Federated & Distributed Learning
Introduces dynamic clustering and hybrid decentralized aggregation to reduce federated learning's dependence on centralized infrastructure. SCALE achieves nearly 10× lower communication overhead while reducing training latency and energy consumption without sacrificing learning performance.
2023
Developing an AI-Powered Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Framework
for Malware Prevention in Nuclear Power Plants
Sajedul Talukder, Palash Kumar Bhowmik,
Piyush Sabharwall, Syed Bahauddin Alam
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
2023
Nuclear Cybersecurity
100+ Citations
Develops an AI-enabled Zero-Trust architecture for nuclear power plants that combines continuous authentication with behavioral analytics, endpoint protection, network segmentation, and continuous monitoring to prevent malware without assuming implicit trust in users or devices.
Combating Identity Attacks in Online Social Networks:
A Multi-Layered Framework Using Zero-Knowledge Proof
and Permissioned Blockchain
Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala,
Sajedul Talukder
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
2023
Identity Attacks & Social Security
Acceptance Rate = 14%
Combines zero-knowledge proofs with Hyperledger Fabric to verify social-network identities without exposing sensitive identity information. In a 50-user prototype, the multilayer framework prevented fraudulent, cloned, and multiple-account creation with 100% success.
FLID: Intrusion Attack and Defense Mechanism for Federated Learning
Empowered Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) Application
Md Zarif Hossain, Ahmed Imteaj, Saika Zaman, Abdur R. Shahid,
Sajedul Talukder, M. Hadi Amini
IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC)
2023
Federated Learning Security
Tailors federated learning to collaborative intrusion detection across connected autonomous vehicles, allowing vehicles to strengthen collective detection without centralizing local data. The framework examines attack and defense mechanisms for privacy-preserving, dependable CAV security.
Monitoring Dynamics of Emotional Sentiment in Social Network Commentaries
Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md Jahangir Alam,
Sajedul Talukder
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
2023
Sentiment Analysis & Online Social Systems
Acceptance Rate = 14%
Combines BERT-based emotion scoring with bottom-up aggregation of comment threads to monitor evolving social-media sentiment. The emotion model achieves AUC 0.91, while Decision Tree models attain macro-F1 above 0.40.
2022
User Awareness and Defenses Against Sockpuppet Friend Invitations
in Facebook
Sajedul Talukder, Nestor Hernandez,
Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Bogdan Carbunar
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
2022
Sockpuppet Defense
Acceptance Rate = 22%
Introduces an interface and classifier that nudges users to inspect suspicious Facebook friend requests. It reduces accepted sockpuppet invitations by 42.6 percentage points and predicts user decisions with an F1 score of 96.52%.
2021
A Novel Index-Based Decision Support Toolkit for Safe Reopening
Following a Generalized Lockdown in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Abu S. Shonchoy, Khandker S. Ishtiaq,
Sajedul Talukder, Nasar U. Ahmed,
Rajiv Chowdhury
Scientific Reports
2021
Nature Portfolio
AI for Social Good
Using epidemiological data from 24 countries, identifies a practical reopening signal: two weeks after infection rates cross below recovery rates while new cases continue declining. The finding is distilled into an interpretable large-scale reopening index for resource-constrained settings.
2020
A Study of Friend Abuse Perception in Facebook
Sajedul Talukder and Bogdan Carbunar
ACM Transactions on Social Computing
2020
Human-Centered Security
Extends AbuSniff into a large study of user-perceived friend abuse and its prediction from social activity. Across 263 participants, users accepted 78% of predicted defensive actions, while questionnaire responses were predicted with F-measures up to 89.7%.
2018
AbuSniff: Automatic Detection and Defenses Against
Abusive Facebook Friends
Sajedul Talukder and Bogdan Carbunar
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2018
Online Abuse Detection
Acceptance Rate = 19%
Introduces AbuSniff to identify Facebook friends perceived as abusive or strangers and recommend defenses such as restricting, unfollowing, or unfriending them. Across 263 participants, users accepted 78.2% of automatically suggested actions without completing the abuse questionnaire.
2017
When Friend Becomes Abuser: Evidence of Friend Abuse in Facebook
Sajedul Talukder and Bogdan Carbunar
ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci)
2017
Online Social Networks
Acceptance Rate = 25%
Through two user studies involving 80 participants, establishes that Facebook friend relationships themselves can create privacy and content-abuse risks, with many users identifying at least one friend as potentially abusive or effectively a stranger.