Scholar
Imtiaz Karim
Google Scholar ID: YqQRjfgAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
Citations & Impact
Citations
477
H-index
9
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
22
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Research led to changes in 4G and 5G cellular standards
- Discovered numerous security and privacy issues in protocols and system implementations
- Inducted three times into the GSMA Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame
- Received acknowledgments from the WiFi Alliance
- Earned multiple bug bounties, CVDs, and CVEs
- Best Paper Award at ACSAC 2019
- Best Paper Award Nomination at ICDCS 2021
- Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award for outstanding security research (Purdue, 2020)
- Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award (Purdue, 2022)
- Key publications include: 5GReasoner (CCS 2019), BLEDiff (IEEE S&P 2023), CellularLint (Usenix Security 2024), FBSDetector (Usenix Security 2025A), AKMA+ (Usenix Security 2025B), etc.
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
- Leads the System and Network Security (SysNetS) Lab at UTD
- Research focuses on systems and network security, particularly the security and privacy of wireless communication protocols (e.g., 4G/5G, Bluetooth, VoWiFi, vehicular, WiFi, and IoT) in their design and implementation
- Aims to develop tools that systematically analyze real-world systems and protocols using AI (ML/NLP), formal verification, program analysis, and software testing
- Future goal is to ensure the resilience (reliability, adaptability, and security) of 6G and beyond, and to design protocols and systems that are secure by design
