Assistant Professor
Mohammad Arif Hossain
Department of Engineering Technology · Middle Tennessee State University
Dr. Mohammad Arif Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee State University, where he directs the ASQI Lab. His research focuses on distributed edge intelligence, agentic LLM security, quantum-assisted machine learning, and AI-native next-generation networks. He has published in top-tier venues, including IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He serves as a Program Committee member (e.g., AAAI) and reviewer for top AI and networking venues. He is a member of IEEE.
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Focus Areas
Research
Agentic LLM Security
Securing agentic LLM systems against prompt injection, tool misuse, and adversarial manipulation, with autonomous defense for multi-agent workflows.
Distributed Machine Learning
Collaborative and privacy-aware distributed learning architectures that enable efficient model training across edge nodes.
Edge Intelligence & IoT
Optimizing computation offloading, resource allocation, and scheduling for mobile edge computing in heterogeneous IoT environments.
Generative AI
Generative models for network management, synthetic data, and intelligent automation in communication systems.
AI-Native 6G Networks
Integrating AI/ML natively into 5G/6G architectures for adaptive slicing, ISAC, and self-optimizing radio access.
Quantum-Assisted ML
Quantum computing paradigms to accelerate ML model training and optimization in next-generation networks.
Recent Activity
News
- Sep 2026IEEE TNSE
New publication: Multi-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Frame and Tick-Rate Aware Satellite-Ground Integrated Heterogeneous Edge Networks
W Liu, MA Hossain, N Ansari
- Jul 2026Service
Serving as Program Committee member at AAAI 2027
- Jun 2026ACM SIGCOMM
New publication: SATLOCK: Handover-Coupled Scheduling for Weather-Resilient Quantum Key Distribution over LEO Constellations
MA Hossain, MJ Hossain
- May 2026ICML
New publication: The Containment Gap: How Deployed Agentic AI Frameworks Fail Public-Facing Safety Requirements
MJ Hossain, MA Hossain, W Liu, N Ansari
- Apr 2026IEEE TCCN
New publication: Split Learning Over NOMA-Enabled HetNets for Scalable IoT-Based Precision Agriculture
MA Hossain, N Sadat, N Ansari, F Amsaad
- Sep 2025IEEE ICIP
New publication: Energy-based Generative Models with Morphological Attention Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification: A Unified Framework
MA Hossain, Y Sarker, W Liu, N Ansari
- Jun 2025IEEE TCCN
New publication: Mobile-edge Computing for Multi-services Digital Twin-enabled IoT Heterogeneous Networks
W Liu, MA Hossain, N Ansari
- 2025Award
Newark College of Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA
- Aug 2024Appointment
Joined MTSU as Assistant Professor
- Feb 2024IEEE TNSM
New publication: Reinforcement Learning-based Network Slicing Scheme for Optimized UE-QoS in Future Networks
W Liu, MA Hossain, N Ansari, A Kiani, T Saboorian
- 2024Award
Hashimoto Prize for outstanding doctoral candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT, USA
- 2024Fellowship
Hashimoto Fellowship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT, USA (2022, 2023, 2024)
- Jun 2023IEEE TCC
New publication: Energy-efficient Federated Edge Learning in Multi-tier NOMA-enabled HetNet
MA Hossain, N Ansari
- Mar 2023IEEE TVT
New publication: Dual-band Aerial Networks for Priority-based Traffic
AR Hossain, MA Hossain, N Ansari
- Jan 2023IEEE TCC
New publication: Hybrid Multiple Access for Network Slicing Aware Mobile Edge Computing
MA Hossain, N Ansari
- 2023Fellowship
Ross Fellowship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT, USA
- 2022Fellowship
Kupfrian Endowed Fellowship, NJIT, USA
- Oct 2021IEEE TCC
New publication: Network Slicing for NOMA-enabled Edge Computing
MA Hossain, N Ansari
- May 2021IEEE TGCN
New publication: Energy Aware Latency Minimization for Network Slicing Enabled Edge Computing
MA Hossain, N Ansari