Showkot Hossain
Notre Dame, IN 46556
shossain at nd dot edu
I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, where I work as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Data Security and Privacy Lab advised by Prof. Taeho Jung.
My research focuses on security and privacy, distributed systems, and confidential computing. I build systems that let mutually distrusting parties share and compute on data with strong integrity and confidentiality guarantees. You can find my recent publications on my Google Scholar profile.
Previously I received my BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka in 2020. Before starting my PhD, I spent about 3.5 years as a software engineer at multinational software companies in Dhaka, Bangladesh. For my full academic and professional background, see the Education & Experience page.
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| Sep 24, 2026 | Our position paper Decentralized AI Governance Must Decouple Policy Processing from Capability Enforcement is accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track (acceptance rate 22.9%). |
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| Sep 16, 2026 | Our paper Cost-Effective Logging for Decentralized Massive Data Sharing is accepted by IEEE Blockchain 2026. |
| Aug 07, 2026 | Our paper Web3IoT: A Decentralized Database Engine for Secure and Scalable IoT Data Management is accepted by IEEE HealthCom 2026. |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Our paper Consentful-by-Design: Safeguarding Data Ownership from Generative AI is published in AI & SOCIETY (Springer). |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Presented MtDB at IEEE Blockchain 2025 in Zhengzhou, China. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | Our paper MtDB: A Decentralized Multi-Tenant Database for Secure Data Sharing is accepted by IEEE Blockchain 2025. |
| Aug 25, 2025 | Started as a Teaching Assistant for CSE-20110 Discrete Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame (Fall 2025). |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Our paper SecLog: Atomic-Swap Based Secure Logging for Decentralized Data Sharing is accepted by METAVERSE 2025. |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Attended ACM CCS 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah, supported by a University of Notre Dame travel grant. |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Started my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, joining the Data Security and Privacy Lab. |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Selected for a Research Assistant position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame. |