Dr. Hossain Shahriar

• Position: Associate Director and Professor
• Department: Center for Cybersecurity
• Office Location: Downtown Pensacola
• hshahriar@uwf.edu
• Campus: 850.474.2305

Biography

Dr. Hossain Shahriar is the Associate Director and Professor for the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida. His research interests include mobile and web security, mhealth, EHR systems and healthcare security, HIPAA compliance checking, malware analysis, automatic checking of vulnerabilities, and mitigation. His research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, National Institute of Health, and private industry partners. He developed and taught courses with open-source materials such as Ethical Hacking, AI in Cybersecurity, Health Information Security and Privacy, Computing Infrastructure, and Information Security Concepts and Administration. Dr. Shahriar has served as Program Chair (IEEE ICDH), Publication Chair (ACM SAC), and Proceedings Chair (IEEE COMPSAC)  in conferences.