Ismail Hossain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology (CSET)
Valdosta State University (VSU)
Nevins Hall, Room 2113
1500 N. Patterson St. Valdosta, GA 31698
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About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology at VSU. Before joining VSU, I earned my Doctorate in summer 2026 under the supervision of Professor Ragib Hasan at UAB Secure & Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab). My research interests span various security areas, including Smart Cities, Computing-enabled Buildings, Distributed Sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), Wearable Computing, and Secure Infrastructure. I was an Innovate Fellow at the Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a Sparkman Fellow of the Sparkman Center for Global Health at UAB.
Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my Master of Information Technology at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, where I actively researched under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Fadhil Yusof on the Smart Healthcare adoption model and developed an adoption model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems Devices (CGMs) in Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare.
I previously received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at Daffodil International University (DIU), Bangladesh. In my undergraduate thesis, I was fortunate to work with Samia Nawshin on Machine Learning.
News
01 August 2026: I have joined Valdosta State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of CSET.
23 June 2026: I have successfully defended my Ph.D. Thesis titled "From Smart Walls to Autonomous Smart Cities: Secure, Trust-Aware, and Computing-Enabled Buildings for Real-Time Sensing, Emergency Response, and Forensic Accountability to Ensure Public Safety". I am Dr. Hossain finally!
29 May 2026: One of our conference papers, titled SHIELD: Sensing-Enabled Health-Aware Infrastructure for Environmental Localized Defense, has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2026.
12 April 2026: One of our conference papers, titled ABCD: Active Buildings with Computing, Distributed Sensing, and Secure Edge Collaboration for Autonomous Hazard Mitigation, has been accepted for the IEEE Computer Society’s flagship conference on Computers, Software, and Applications, COMPSAC 2026.
14 March 2026: Presented a paper titled "SCOPE: Satellite Communication Security Analysis and Mitigation Strategies Using STRIDE and Data Flow Diagrams," in the IEEE SouthEastCon 2026. This work is co-mentored by me with my two undergraduate students at UAB.
12 January 2026: Presented a paper titled "RESCUE: Real-Time Sensing and Computation for Safe Evacuation in Buildings," in the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC).
02 October 2025: One of our conference papers has been accepted for the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2026.
25 September 2025: Presented a paper titled "Analyzing Smart Cities: Cybersecurity Architecture, Threats, Mitigation, Challenges, and Open Problems," in the 2025 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST).
25 September 2025: Presented a paper titled "CityGuard: A Forensic Investigation Framework for Smart Cities," in 2025 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST).
24 September 2025: Presented a paper titled "SmartWall: An Infrastructure for Sensory and Computation-capable Buildings using Sustainable and Low-cost Smart Materials," in 2025 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST).
12 September 2025: Appointed as a Session Chair for TS12: Safety, Security, Privacy, and Trust–III in the 2025 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST).
05 September 2025: Attended NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) Training Workshop organized by UAB Graduate School.
20 Aug 2025: Passed PhD Candidacy exam with proposed thesis titled "Distributed Sensing and Secure Infrastructure for Enhancing Public Safety in Smart Cities", I am a PhD Candidate now!
08 July 2025: Three of my research papers got accepted in the 2025 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST).
12 April 2025: Attended BSides Huntsville 2025, presented by NAC-ISSA and hosted at Calhoun Community College, Huntsville Campus.
09 April 2025: Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Leader Award from Student Involvement & Leadership, UAB.
04 April 2024: Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Leader Award from Student Involvement & Leadership, UAB.
27 March 2024: Recipient of Professional Development and Travel Award from Graduate Student Government, UAB.
19 January 2024: Presented a poster titled "How Secure is AI-based Coding?: A Security Analysis Using STRIDE and Data Flow Diagrams," in AI-Research Retreat at UAB.
08 January 2024: Appointed as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at the Department of Computer Science at UAB.
01 January 2024: Selected as President of the Bangladeshi Student Association at UAB.
04 December 2023: Successfully passed my Ph.D. Level 1 Exam with survey titled "Computation-enabled Smart Cities: Requirements, Challenges, and Open Problems."
26 November 2023: Presented paper titled "How Secure is AI-based Coding?: A Security Analysis Using STRIDE and Data Flow Diagrams," in IEEE VCC 2023: IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications.
24 October 2023: Our conference paper, "How Secure is AI-based Coding?: A Security Analysis Using STRIDE and Data Flow Diagrams" has been accepted in IEEE VCC 2023: IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications.
23 October 2023: Appointed as an Innovate Fellow in the Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation Entrepreneurship.
17 October 2023: Presented two papers at IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT- 2023).
04 October 2023: Appointed as a Senator of GSG at UAB for the College of Arts and Sciences.
18 September 2023: Appointed as a member of the GSG Executive Committee at UAB and positioned as International Student Liaison Officer.
13 September 2023: Our conference paper, "Enhancing Security in Ambient Intelligence: A STRIDE Threat Modeling Perspective," has been accepted in IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT- 2023).
13 September 2023: Our conference paper, "Improving Security Practices in Health Information Systems with STRIDE threat modeling," has been accepted in IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WFIoT- 2023).
12 September 2023: Recipient of Google Computer Science Research Mentorship Program (Google CSRMP) for Cycle B, 2023, organized by Google. I participated in Google CSRMP from September to December (2023).
20 July 2023: Joined the 2023-2024 Sparkman Fellows Kick-off Meeting (Orientation Program) at UAB.
06 July 2023: Invited as a PC member at The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta).
26 June 2023: Presented Paper at IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023).
07 May 2023: Selected as a Sparkman Fellow with the Sparkman Center for Global Health for the 2023-2024 academic year.
17 March 2023: Our conference paper, "Threat Model-based Security Analysis and Mitigation Strategies for a Trustworthy Metaverse," has been accepted by MetaCom 2023.
01 January 2023: Selected as Vice President of the Bangladeshi Student Association at UAB.
10 November 2022: Selected as a Member of Graduate Student Government (GSG) at UAB.
15 August 2022: Started Ph.D. at UAB as Blazer Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science.
24 May 2022: Selected as Blazer Graduate Research Fellow at UAB Computer Science Department.
22 December 2021: Our conference paper, "Understanding Wearable Device Adoption: Review on Adoption Factors and Directions for Further Research in Smart Healthcare," has been accepted by the International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (ICRICT).
20 November 2021: Presented paper, "Understanding Wearable Device Adoption: Review on Adoption Factors and Directions for Further Research in Smart Healthcare" in ICRICT.
02 October 2021: Joined B2GSOFT as a project manager.
09 September 2021: Our journal paper, "Factors influencing adoption model of continuous glucose monitoring devices for Internet of things healthcare," has been accepted in the Internet of Things Journal.
15 March 2020: Awarded Master of Information Technology degree from UTM.
20 January 2020: Successfully defended Master thesis viva successfully at UTM with the thesis titled "FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF WEARABLE CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING SYSTEMS DEVICES IN INTERNET OF THINGS HEALTHCARE "
06 May 2020: Our conference paper, "The content and construct development of CGMs device adoption model," has been accepted at Sriwijaya International Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications (SICONIAN 2019).
16 November 2019: Our conference paper, "The content and construct development of CGMs device adoption model," received the Best Paper Award at SICONIAN 2019.
27 August 2018: Started my Master of Information Technology journey at UTM.
21 December 2017: Our conference paper, "Machine learning based class level prediction of restaurant reviews, " was accepted at the 2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC).
27 October 2017: Completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from DIU with a thesis titled "Machine Learning Based Class Level Prediction of Restaurant Reviews"
01 May 2013: Started my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at DIU.
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