Welcome! Dr. Moinul Hossain received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, in August 2020, under the guidance of Professor Jiang (Linda) Xie. 

Dr. Hossain is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University, VA. Before joining George Mason, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University, MD. His current research interests include, but not limited to, security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications.

OPENING ! ! (Closed)

I am actively looking for self-motivated Master's (not funded) and Doctoral students interested in wireless networking and wireless network security, including IoT, cyber-physical systems, and 5G and beyond. A good mathematical background is required. Knowledge of wireless communications and computer networks is most welcome. If interested, please send me your CV, writing samples (if any), test scores, and transcripts.

• Next-gen Spectrum Technologies: Cross-technology spectrum sharing and dynamic spectrum access

• Intelligent Transportation Systems: Applications of mobile edge computing and V2V communications

• Wireless Network Security: Vulnerability assessment of network protocols and threat modeling

• Security in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems: Moving target defense, deterrence, and deception

2025

[07/2025] Nahid's “Fingerprinting Deep Learning Models via Network Traffic Patterns in Federated Learning” paper received the WiseML Best Paper award. Congratulations, Nahid !!

[05/2025] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the premier IEEE conference, INFOCOM 2026.

[04/2025] Our paper, “ReaperPulse: A Targeted Energy-Efficient Control Channel Jamming in 5G,” has been accepted in the WiseML Workshop co-located with ACM WiSec, 2025.

[04/2025] Our paper, “Fingerprinting Deep Learning Models via Network Traffic Patterns in Federated Learning,” has been accepted in the WiseML Workshop co-located with ACM WiSec, 2025.

[01/2025] Our paper, “Channel Access Deterrence Attack: An Attack against Spectrum Coexistence between NR-U and Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz Band,” has been accepted in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2025.

2024

[08/2024] Our paper, “Phantom Guard: An MDP-Based Anti-Jamming Defense Strategy for Military 5G Networks,” has been accepted in the Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM, 2024.

[07/2024] Our paper, “Exploring Missed Spectrum Opportunities for Enhancing the Mid-band Spectrum Utilization,” has been accepted in the Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2024.

[05/2024] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the premier IEEE conference, INFOCOM 2025.

[01/2024] Our paper, “RanCAD: Random Channel Access Deterrence Attack against Spectrum Coexistence between NR-U and Wi-Fi on the 5GHz Unlicensed Band,” has been accepted in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024.

2023

[10/2023] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a Vice Chair of the Special Interest Group for AI and Machine Learning in Security, IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks.

[05/2023] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the premier IEEE conference, INFOCOM 2024.

[01/2023] Our paper, “PACMAN Attack: A Mobility-Powered Attack in Private 5G-Enabled Industrial Automation System,” has been accepted in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023.

[01/2023] Dr. Hossain's proposal, "Slicing-Enabled Private 5G Network to Support AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems," has been accepted by the ArtIAMAS program -- a joint agreement between the University of Maryland and the Army Research Lab.

2022

[06/2022] Dr. Hossain has received the prestigious 2022 Graduate Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award at UNC Charlotte. This award recognizes outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte every two years in the fields of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering.

[06/2022] Dr. Hossain has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University, VA. He will start his new journey in August 2022.

[04/2022] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the premier IEEE conference, INFOCOM 2023.

[04/2022] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the IEEE MASS 2022.

2021

[10/2021] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the IEEE ICCCN 2022.

[06/2021] Dr. Hossain has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s CISE Research Initiation Initiative Grant (NSF CRII).

[05/2021] Dr. Hossain has been invited to serve as a TPC member of the premier IEEE conference, INFOCOM 2022.

[01/2021] Our paper, "Jump and Wobble: A  Defense Against Hidden Terminal Emulation Attack in Dense IoT Networks," has been accepted by the IEEE ICC 2021.

2020

[06/2020] Dr. Hossain received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of ECE, UNC Charlotte (2020)

• Graduate Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award, UNC Charlotte (2022)

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of ECE, UNC Charlotte (2020)

• Best-in-session Presentation award at IEEE INFOCOM, Paris, France (2019)

• Graduate School Summer Fellowship, UNC Charlotte (2019)

• Best-in-session Presentation award at IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, HI (2018)

• NSF Travel Grant award to attend IEEE INFOCOM, Honolulu, HI (2018)

• GPSG Student Travel Grant award to attend IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore (2017)

• Dean’s List for outstanding academic performance, KUET (2009-2011)