Hafijul Hoque Chowdhury

I am Hafijul Hoque Chowdhury. I graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) with a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering. I currently work as a Lecturer at United International University (UIU). My undergraduate thesis was on identifying and fixing user-level security issues in smart home devices using smaller LLMs, supervised by Dr. Shohrab Hossain and Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar.

At UIU, I mainly teach multiple theory & lab courses. Besides it, I supervise/co-supervise multiple groups of students on their Final Year Design Projects and term papers. Before this, I worked as a Software Engineer at Samsung Research & Development Bangladesh (SRBD), on the Samsung Health Research Platform (HRP) projects.

My undergraduate thesis introduced me to the field of security research, where I mainly used LLMs to address existing security and privacy problems.Building on this experience, my research interests lie in two complementary directions: using LLMs and machine learning to address security and privacy problems in software, systems, networks, and studying vulnerabilities in LLM and ML systems and developing methods to mitigate them.