Farhad Hossain

PhD Student at Penn State

Graduate Research Assistant at GPS Lab

About Me

I am a PhD student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, where I am part of the GPS Research Lab.

Before joining Penn State, I earned my B.S. in Information Technology from Jahangirnagar University and worked as a software engineer at Cefalo, developing GDPR-compliant archival management systems for the Norwegian foundation Stiftelsen Asta. This experience of building privacy-preserving systems while maintaining usability for non-technical users, combined with my research experience during my undergrad, sparked my interest in the intersection of privacy, security, and human-centered design, which now drives my PhD research.

Research

My research focuses on usable privacy and security and human-centered AI governance. I investigate how to design privacy-preserving technologies that are accessible to non-technical users and develop governance frameworks for responsible AI deployment.

Currently, I am working on:

Personhood Credentials (PHC) Explainability: Developing mechanisms to help users understand and trust privacy-preserving identity verification systems.
Voice Actor Data Rights and AI Governance: Building usable privacy and security frameworks for voice actors.

In my free time, I love to explore and learn about Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI.

Experience

Software Engineer

Cefalo AS

Feb 2025 – Present Dhaka, Bangladesh

Associate Software Engineer

Cefalo AS

Mar 2022 – Feb 2025 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Team Lead & Senior Trainer

Competitive Programming Community IIT JU

Mar 2019 - Present Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Vice Chair

IEEE Student Branch, Jahangirnagar University

Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Publications

Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Farhad Hossain, Silvia Binte Nur, M Shamim Kaiser, Mufti Mahmud

Toward Machine Learning-Based Psychological Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders in School and Community

Proceedings of Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 376. Springer, Singapore. 2022.

Sabbir Ahmed, Silvia Binte Nur, Md. Farhad Hossain, M Shamim Kaiser, Mufti Mahmud, Tianhua Chen

Computational Intelligence in Detection and Support of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Brain Informatics and Health. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Farhad Hossain, M Shamim Kaiser, Manan Binth Taj Noor, Mufti Mahmud, Chinmay Chakraborty

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Ensuring Security in Smart Cities

Data-Driven Mining, Learning and Analytics for Secured Smart Cities. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. 2021.

Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Farhad Hossain, Manan Binth Taj Noor

Convid-net: an enhanced convolutional neural network framework for covid-19 detection from x-ray images

Proceedings of International Conference on Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1309. Springer, Singapore 2021.

Mehrin Anannya, Most. Shahera Khatun, Md. Biplob Hosen, Sabbir Ahmed, Md. Farhad Hossain, M. Shamim Kaiser

Eligible Personal Loan Applicant Selection using Federated Machine Learning Algorithm

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. Volume 14, Issue 8, 2023

Research Projects

Clontract: AI Risk Assessment for Voice Acting Contracts

A multi-agent system designed to identify risks in voice acting contracts and help negotiate control over voice data, addressing privacy and consent challenges in the era of AI voice synthesis.