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Shagufta Mehnaz

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer Science and Engineering

W308 Westgate Building

sjm7535@psu.edu

814-865-9505

 
 

 

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2013
  • Masters of Computer Science, Computer Science, Purdue University, 2016
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Purdue University, 2020

Publications

Conference Proceedings

  • Ehsanul Kabir, Zeyu Song, Md Rafi Ur Rashid and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2024, "FLShield: A Validation Based Federated Learning Framework to Defend Against Poisoning Attacks", IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P)
  • Kang Gu, Ehsanul Kabir, Neha Ramsurrun, Soroush Vosoughi and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2023, "Towards Sentence Level Inference Attack Against Pre-trained Language Models", 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2023)
  • Sayanton V Dibbo, Dae Lim Chung and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2023, "Model Inversion Attack with Least Information and an In-depth Analysis of its Disparate Vulnerability", First IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Trishna Chakraborty, Imranur Rahman, Hasan Murad, Md Shohrab Hossain and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2023, "SecureImgStego: A Keyed Shuffling-based Deep Learning Model for Secure Image Steganography"
  • Shagufta Mehnaz, Sayanton V Dibbo, Ehasnul Kabir, Ninghui Li and Elisa Bertino, 2022, "Are Your Sensitive Attributes Private? Novel Model Inversion Attribute Inference Attacks on Classification Models", USENIX Security 2022
  • Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2020, "Privacy-preserving Real-time Anomaly Detection Using Edge Computing", 2020 IEEE 36TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING (ICDE 2020), pp. 469-480
  • Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2018, "LTEInspector: A Systematic Approach for Adversarial Testing of 4G LTE", 25TH ANNUAL NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY SYMPOSIUM (NDSS 2018)
  • Shagufta Mehnaz, Anand Mudgerikar and Elisa Bertino, 2018, "RWGuard: A Real-Time Detection System Against Cryptographic Ransomware", RESEARCH IN ATTACKS, INTRUSIONS, AND DEFENSES, RAID 2018, 11050, pp. 114-136
  • Shagufta Mehnaz, Gowtham Bellala and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "A Secure Sum Protocol and Its Application to Privacy-preserving Multi-party Analytics", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND ACM SYMPOSIUM ON ACCESS CONTROL MODELS AND TECHNOLOGIES (SACMAT'17), pp. 219-230
  • Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "Ghostbuster: A Fine-grained Approach for Anomaly Detection in File System Accesses", PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DATA AND APPLICATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY (CODASPY'17), pp. 3-14
  • Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2017, "Privacy-preserving Multi-party Analytics over Arbitrarily Partitioned Data", 2017 IEEE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING (CLOUD), pp. 342-349
  • Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino, 2016, "Building Robust Temporal User Profiles for Anomaly Detection in File System Accesses", 2016 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PRIVACY, SECURITY AND TRUST (PST)
  • Shagufta Mehnaz and Md. Sohel Rahman, 2013, "Pairwise Compatibility Graphs Revisited", 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATICS, ELECTRONICS & VISION (ICIEV)
  • Kang Gu and Shagufta Mehnaz, , "Semantic-Preserving Adversarial Example Attack against BERT", TrustNLP: Fourth Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

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