Scholar
Shagufta Mehnaz
Google Scholar ID: xG6n34gAAAAJ
The Pennsylvania State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
934
H-index
14
i10-index
17
Publications
20
Co-authors
27
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - July 2025: Received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
- - June 2025: Organized a tutorial on 'Privacy and Security in Distributed Data Markets' at SIGMOD 2025
- - March 2025: Paper 'GNNBleed: Inference Attacks to Unveil Private Edges in Graphs with Realistic Access to GNN Models' accepted to PETS 2025
- - February 2025: Paper 'Robust Unlearning for Large Language Models' accepted to PAKDD 2025
- - January 2025: Invited to give a talk at the ICML 2025 Workshop on Machine Unlearning for Generative AI
- - December 2024: Paper 'Disparate Privacy Vulnerability: Targeted Attribute Inference Attacks and Defenses' accepted to USENIX Security 2025
- - December 2024: Paper 'Forget to flourish: Leveraging machine-unlearning on pre-trained language models for privacy leakage' accepted to AAAI 2025
- - May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Kang Gu on his graduation
- - October 2023: Paper 'FLShield: A Validation Based Federated Learning Framework to Defend Against Poisoning Attacks' accepted to IEEE S&P 2024
- - August 2023: Paper 'SecureImgStego: A Keyed Shuffling-based Deep Learning Model for Secure Image Steganography' accepted to IEEE CNS 2023
- - February 2023: Paper 'Towards Sentence Level Inference Attack Against Pre-trained Language Models' accepted to PETS 2023
- - November 2022: Paper 'Model Inversion Attack with Least Information and an In-depth Analysis of its Disparate Vulnerability' accepted to IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML 2023)
Research Experience
- - 2022-Present: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- - 2021-2022: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
- - 2014-2020: Research Assistant, Computer Science, Purdue University
- - Summer 2017: Research Associate Intern, Hewlett Packard Labs - Edge/IoT
- - Summer 2016: Research Associate Intern, Hewlett Packard Labs - Data Analytics
- - Summer 2015: Graduate Technical Intern, Intel Corporation
Education
- - Ph.D.: 2020, Purdue University, Computer Science
- - MSc: 2016, Purdue University, Computer Science
- - BSc: 2013, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Computer Science and Engineering (ranked 1st among 142 students)
Background
- Research interests: intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning; currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.
