Imtiaz Karim

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Computer Science

Purdue University

Lawson Computer Science Building, 

West Lafayette, IN 47907

Email:  karim7@purdue.edu, imtiazkarimik@gmail.com

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I completed my Ph.D. from the same department in May 2023 under the supervision of Professor, Elisa Bertino.

My research interests lie in the security and privacy of networked systems, communication protocols, and mobile computing. My research aim is to develop tools that systematically analyze real-world systems and widely used protocols using formal verification, program analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and software testing techniques. 

My research has led to a number of changes in the design of 4G and 5G cellular standards and implementations. Due to this, I have been inducted into the GSMA mobile security research hall of fame three times. I received the best paper award at ACSAC 2019, and the best paper award nomination at ICDCS 2021. For outstanding security research, I have received Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award and Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award from Purdue University in 2020 and 2022 respectively.

For finding vulnerabilities in multiple 4G/5G, and Bluetooth implementations over the years, I have received bug bounties from Google, Samsung, and numerous CVEs. I got the opportunity to work as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (Summer 2021) and Security Researcher Intern at Intel (Summer 2020, 2019).

I completed my B.Sc. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in September 2017.

Selected Publications:

Imtiaz Karim, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Elisa Bertino, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2023.

Hyunwoo Lee, Imtiaz Karim, Ninghui Li, and Elisa Bertino, ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2022. 

Imtiaz Karim*Syed Rafiul Hussain*, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino, ACM Conference on Computer (CCS), 2021.

Imtiaz Karim, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Elisa Bertino, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021. 

Best paper award nomination 

Imtiaz Karim, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019.  

Distinguished paper award

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Imtiaz Karim, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019. 

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