Research

Ongoing research, published papers, and preprints

Research Interests

Large Language Models (LLM) & NLP — Internals, Finetuning & ApplicationsSpeech AI — Text-to-Speech (TTS) & Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)Computer Vision & Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)AI/ML Applications in Software SystemsComputer SecuritySoftware Engineering & Distributed Systems

The Choice Can Be the Attack: Auditing Aligned Backdoors in LLM Agents

2026Under Review

Kawshik Kumar Paul, Tanzim Hossain Romel, Ch. Md. Rakin Haider

LLM SecurityBackdoor AttackAI AlignmentAgent Security

Co-authored with Dr. Ch. Md. Rakin Haider, Assistant Professor at BUET CSE — AI researcher in Machine Learning, Data Mining, and fairness/robustness in AI systems. Under review at TACL (Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

TroBot: A Trojan Attack Using a Chatbot

2026Submitted

Kawshik Kumar Paul, Md. Musharaf Hossain, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam

MalwareChatbotTrojanCybersecuritySocial EngineeringNim

Co-authored with Dr. A. B. M. Alim Al Islam, Professor at BUET CSE — researches wireless mesh/sensor networking, network protocols, and reliability analysis. Submitted to NSysS 2026 (13th International Conference on Next-generation Computing, Communication, Systems and Security).

Design, Security Analysis, and Evaluation of Endpoint-Aware Token-Bucket Rate Limiting for Web APIs Using Database-Configured Policies

2026Preprint

Kawshik Kumar Paul

Web SecurityRate LimitingAPI SecurityToken Bucket

R&D work conducted at REVE Systems.

Preprint

A Patient-Centric Blockchain Framework for Secure Electronic Health Record Management: Decoupling Data Storage from Access Control

2025Preprint

Tanzim Hossain Romel, Kawshik Kumar Paul, Tanberul Islam Ruhan, Maisha Rahman Mim, Abu Sayed Md. Latiful Hoque

BlockchainEHRHealthcareSecurityPrivacy

Co-authored with Dr. Abu Sayed Md. Latiful Hoque, Professor at BUET CSE — specialist in high-performance databases, data mining, health informatics, and e-learning systems.

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An Architecture for Remote Container Builds and Artifact Delivery Using a Controller-Light Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline

2025Preprint

Kawshik Kumar Paul, Sawmik Kumar Paul

DevOpsCI/CDJenkinsContainerizationDevSecOps

R&D work conducted at REVE Systems.

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A Low-Cost ATmega32-Based Embedded System for Automated Patient Queue and Health Data Management in Private Medical Chambers

2025Submitted

Kawshik Kumar Paul, Mahdi Hasnat Siyam, Khandokar Md Rahat Hossain

Embedded SystemsHealthcareIoTATmega32Automation

Submitted to NSysS 2026 (13th International Conference on Next-generation Computing, Communication, Systems and Security).

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