Faysal Hossain Shezan
Email: faysal.shezan@uta.edu
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News

(Archived News)

  • Aug'26: Copyright-Aware Code Generation got accepted at EMNLP'26. Congrats Rui and team!
  • Aug'26: Thanks NAIRR Pilot Classroom Program for supporting our projects from CSE 6392 course!
  • Jun'26: Our paper on exploit generation got accepted to ISSTA'26. Fantastic effort, team!
  • Apr'26: Steganography in 3D Gaussian Splatting got accepted at ICML'26. Great work Nicole!
  • Apr'26: Adversarial Policy Generation work accepted at AsiaCCS'26. Congratulations Tanusree and Poojitha!
  • Apr'26: TPC NDSS'27
  • Dec'25: Organizing "SPAR-3D: Security, Privacy, and Adversarial Robustness in 3D Generative Vision Models", co-located with CVPR'26.
  • Nov'25: Received Roots of Dedication-Service Award from UTA!
  • Sep'25: Our paper on GDPR consent violation got accepted to IEEE S&P'26. Congrats Ying and the team!
  • Aug'25: Invited to serve TPC in CCS'26 and USENIX'26
  • Jul'25: Received NSF grant! Thanks NSF for supporting our research.
  • May'25: Invited to serve TPC in NDSS'26 and IEEE S&P'26
  • Apr'25: Received Microsoft Research Award!!!
  • Feb'25: Invited to serve TPC in RAID'25 and IEEE SecDev'25
  • Jan'25: Our SoK paper on vulnerability repair got accepted to USENIX'25!
  • Oct'24: Invited to serve in CCS 2025
  • Oct'24: Got CoE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program Grant!
  • Sep'24: Invited as Systems Reviewer for WWW 2025
  • Aug'24: Two exciting projects got departmental REU support. Thanks UTA CSE department!
  • Jul'24: TPC USENIX 2025
  • Jun'24: TPC IEEE S&P 2025
  • Apr'24: Received Sub-Star award. Thanks College of Engineering for supporting our research on Security and Privacy issues for emerging platforms.
  • Apr'24: TPC NDSS 2025
  • Jan'24: Organizing a workshop in OurCS@DFW
  • Dec'23: TPC CCS 2024
  • Dec'23: Received Microsoft Azure credit. Thanks Microsoft!
  • Dec'23: Awarded departmental REU support. Thanks UTA CSE department!
  • Sep'23: TPC ICWSM 2024
  • Sep'23: Received University of Texas System Rising Stars Award. Thanks UT!
  • Aug'23: TPC The Web Conf 2024
  • Aug'23: TPC IEEE S&P 2024
  • Aug'23: Excited to start my new role as an Assistant Professor at UTA!

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. My research focus lies in software security, and trustworthy machine learning. I am particularly interested in secure, ethical, and copyright-aware code generation using large language models; privacy-policy analysis and enforcement; and adversarial machine learning for audio and emerging visual representations, including 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS), and world models. More broadly, my research develops data-driven techniques to identify attack surfaces, uncover privacy leakage, and improve the security and trustworthiness of interconnected and emerging computing platforms. My work has been published in top venues, including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, NDSS, ISSTA, EMNLP, ICML, ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, The Web Conference (WWW), PoPETs/PETS, and SOUPS. My research findings have been acknowledged by major technology companies, including Google, and have resulted in the disclosure of several CVEs. I have also been fortunate to receive several awards and recognitions, including Microsoft Research Award, UTA's Roots of Dedication-Service Award, CPS Rising Star Award, the University of Virginia Endowed Graduate Fellowship Award, the Link Lab Outstanding Graduate Research Award.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Yuan Tian. I also interned at Baidu Research, where I worked with Dr. Ping Li and Dr. Yingjie Lao. Before joining UVA, I worked as a software engineer in the Security Lab at Kona Software Lab Ltd. in Bangladesh. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2016.

Teaching

  • CSE 6392: Advanced Topic: Seminar in LLM Security, Privacy & Ethics [Fall 2026]
  • CSE 4382/5382: Secure Programming [Spring 2026]
  • CSE 4380/5380: Information Security 1 [Fall 2025, 2024, 2023]
  • CSE 4380: Information Security 1 [Spring 2026, 2025, 2024]

Publications

  1. Rui Chu, Nicole Meng, Tanusree Das Tithy, Thomas Cao, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Yingjie Lao, AegisCodeGen: Toward Copyright-Aware Code Generation with Runnability-Guided Fusion, The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026
  2. Tanusree Das Tithy, Lamia Hasan Rodoshi, Ayman Rafid Azahar, Amlan Abhidarshi, Tabassum Faruk, Fahmid Al Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan, PoCE: Automated Proof-of-Concept Synthesis using Large Language Models for Robust Exploit Validation, Proceedings of The 36th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2026
  3. Nicole Meng, Ronak Sahu, Miao Yin, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Yingjie Lao, WhisperSplat: Lossless Steganography in 3D Gaussian Splatting, Proceedings of The 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  4. Tanusree Das Tithy*, Poojitha Thota*, Shirin Nilizadeh, Faysal Hossain Shezan, The Insider’s Advantage: Exploiting Automated Privacy Policy Analyzer Tools Through Subtle Text Manipulations, Proceedings of the 21th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), 2026 [pdf]
  5. Ying Li, Wenjun Qiu, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Kunlin Cai, Michelangelo van Dam, Lisa Austin, David Lie, Yuan Tian, Breaking the illusion: Automated Reasoning of GDPR Consent Violations, Proceedings of The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2026 [pdf]
  6. N. Ntokos*, N. K. Dey*, G. S. Siripurapu*, W. Luo, S. T. L. Do, Faysal Hossain Shezan and Jiayi Meng, Meta Lens: A Runtime Measurement Framework for Meta Quest Camera Security, XR Security Co-located with ACM MobiCom 2026, [pdf]
  7. Md Mahedi Hasan Rigan, Nicole Meng, Miao Yin, Yingjie Lao, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Adversarial Defense in Gaussian Splatting Using 3D Gaussian Filtering, SPAR-3D: First Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Adversarial Robustness in 3D Generative Vision Models, Co-located with CVPR 2026, [pdf]
  8. Ying Li, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Bomin Wei, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian, SoK: Towards Effective Automated Vulnerability Repair, Proceedings of The 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2025 [pdf]
  9. N. Ntokos, N. K. Dey, J. Meng, and Faysal Hossain Shezan, Poster: Do Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation Techniques Degrade the Accuracy of Odometry?, ACM MobiCom 2024, [pdf]
  10. M. N. Zaharudin, M. H. Zuhaimi, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Poster: Enhancing Symbolic Execution with LLMs for Vulnerability Detection, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024, [pdf]
  11. L. H. Rodoshi, F. Tafannum, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Poster: Identifying Copyright Code in Training Corpus of Large Language Model, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024, [pdf]
  12. before 2023
  13. McKenna McCall, Eric Zeng, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Mitchell Yang, Lujo Bauer, Abhishek Bichhawat, Camille Cobb, Limin Jia, Yuan Tian, Towards Usable Security Analysis Tools for Trigger-Action Programming, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2023 [pdf].
  14. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Minjun Long, David Hasani, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian, SenRev: Measurement of Personal Information Disclosure in Online Health Communities, Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs/PETS), 2023 [pdf].
  15. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Zihao Su, Mingqing Kang, Nicholas Phair, Patrick William Thomas, Michelangelo van Dam, Yinzhi Cao, and Yuan Tian, CHKPLUG: Checking GDPR Compliance of WordPress Plugins via Cross-language Code Property Graph, Proceedings of Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2023 [pdf].
  16. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Yingjie Lao, Minlong Peng, Xin Wang, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, NL2GDPR: Automatically Develop GDPR Compliant Android Application Features from Natural Language, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), 2022 [pdf].
  17. Z. Su, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Y. Tian, D. Evans and S. Heo, Perception Hacking for 2D Cursorjacking in Virtual Reality, Proceedings of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality, Co-located with CHI 2022 [pdf]
  18. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Hang Hu, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian, VerHealth: Vetting Medical Voice Applications through Policy Enforcement, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2021 [pdf]. [Also presented at The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2021).]
  19. Yeonjoon Lee, Yue Zhao, Jiutian Zeng, Kwangwuk Lee, Nan Zhang, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Yuan Tian, Kai Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, SPEAKER-RADAR: a Sonar-based Liveness Detection System for Protecting Smart Speakers Against Remote Attackers, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2020 [pdf]. [Also presented at The 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2020).]
  20. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Hang Hu, Jiamin Wang, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian, Read Between the Lines: An Empirical Measurement of Sensitive Applications of Voice Personal Assistant Systems, Proceedings of the The Web Conference, 2020 [pdf] [slides] [video].
  21. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Kaiming Cheng, Zhen Zhang, Yinzhi Cao, Yuan Tian, TKPERM: Cross-platform Permission Knowledge Transfer to Detect Overprivileged Third-party Applications, Proceedings of the The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020 [pdf] [slides] [video].
  22. Y. Yu, C. Li, M. A. Jonas, C. Ma, Faysal Hossain Shezan, S. Shen, P. Gao, Y. Tian, Detecting Abnormal Behaviors in Smart Home, International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Workshops 2019 [pdf]
  23. S. Liu, Y. Wei, J. Chi, Faysal Hossain Shezan, and Y. Tian, Side Channel Attacks in Computation Offloading Systems with GPU Virtualization, IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops 2019 [pdf]
  24. Faysal Hossain Shezan, Syeda Farzia Afroze, Anindya Iqbal, Vulnerability Detection in Recent Android Apps: An Empirical Study, Proceedings of the International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), 2017 [pdf].
  25. Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha,Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Nicki Dell, Privacy in Repair: An Analysis of the privacy Challenges Surrounding Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh, Proceedings of the Information Technologies & International Development (ITID), 2017 [pdf].
  26. S. F. Afroze, Faysal Hossain Shezan, and S. Sharmin, Poster: HeartFit: An Intuitive Smartphone Application for Well-being of Hypertensive Patients, Proceedings of the annual international conference on mobile systems, applications, and services 2017 [pdf]
  27. Bashima Islam, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Rifat Shahriyar, Privacy in Repair: Challenges around the Broken Digital Objects in Bangladesh, Proceedings of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2016 [pdf].]
  28. Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha,Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Nicki Dell, Privacy in Repair: An Analysis of the privacy Challenges Surrounding Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh, Proceedings of the Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), 2016 [pdf].
  29. Shah Saifur Rahman, Sayera Sun-um Nusaka, Faysal Hossain Shezan, M. A. Rashid Sarkar, The Development of Low Cost Exercise Monitoring Device for Paralytic, Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), 2015 [pdf].

Service

Organizing Committee
  • ACM CCS, 2027, Poster Chair
  • SPAR-3D: Security, Privacy, and Adversarial Robustness in 3D Generative Vision Models, co-located with CVPR 2026, Co-Organizer
  • IEEE/ACM Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings), 2023, Web Chair
Program Committee Member
  • IEEE S&P (2027, 2026, 2025, 2024)
  • USENIX (2027, 2026, 2025)
  • NDSS (2027, 2026, 2025)
  • CCS (2026, 2025, 2024)
  • Texas Security Workshop (2026)
  • The Web Conference (2025, 2024)
  • RAID (2025)
  • SecDev (2025)
  • ICWSM (2024, 2023)
  • Sensors S&P (2023)
  • SafeThings (2023)
  • ICICS (2023)
  • IMC (Shadow TPC, 2022)
  • USENIX Security (Poster, 2018)
  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (2025, 2026)