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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

Publications

Conference Proceedings

  • Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Dasu, Ye Wang, Gang Tan and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2026, "Chain-of-Thought Driven Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models"
  • Aryan Pasikhani, Prosanta Gope, Yang Yang, Shagufta Mehnaz and Biplab Sikdar, 2026, "Baiting AI: Deceptive Adversary Against AI-Protected Industrial Infrastructures"
  • Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Jing Liu, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2025, "Forget to Flourish: Leveraging Machine-Unlearning on Pre-trained Language Models for Privacy Leakage", The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025
  • Najrin Sultana, Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Kang Gu and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2025, "From Insight to Exploit: Leveraging LLM Collaboration for Adaptive Adversarial Text Generation"
  • Daniel Alabi, Sainyam Galhotra, Shagufta Mehnaz, Zeyu Song and Eugene Wu, 2025, "Privacy and Security in Distributed Data Markets"
  • Zeyu Song, Ehsanul Kabir and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2025, "GNNBleed: Inference Attacks to Unveil Private Edges in Graphs with Realistic Access to GNN Models", The 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2025
  • Ehsanul Kabir, Lucas Craig and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2025, "Disparate Privacy Vulnerability: Targeted Attribute Inference Attacks and Defenses", The 34th USENIX Security Symposium 2025
  • Kang Gu, Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Najrin Sultana and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2025, "Robust Unlearning for Large Language Models", The 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2025
  • 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) 2024
  • Kang Gu, Chongyang Gao, Soroush Vosoughi and Shagufta Mehnaz, 2024, "Semantic-Preserving Adversarial Example Attack against BERT", TrustNLP: Fourth Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing
  • 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", IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2023
  • 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)
  • Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Kang Gu, Najrin Sultana and Shagufta Mehnaz, , "FLTrojan: Privacy Leakage Attacks against Federated Language Models Through Selective Weight Tampering"
  • Ehsanul Kabir, Najrin Sultana, Ninghui Li and Shagufta Mehnaz, , "Can we estimate privacy vulnerability of individual records? Towards Mitigating Attribute Inference Attacks on ML Models"

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About

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created in the spring of 2015 to allow greater access to courses offered by both departments for undergraduate and graduate students in exciting collaborative research fields.

We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.

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