Dr. AMBAREEN SIRAJ

Susan Jeziorowski, Ambareen Siraj and Muhammad Ismail, “DVP: A Data-Driven Dark Vendor Profiling Framework for Tor-based Dark Web Markets", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2^nd Round Review Underway.

Ibrahim Yilmaz and Ambareen Siraj. " A Privacy-Preserving Energy Consumption Scheme for Smart Meters with Adversarial Machine Learning” February 2021 IEEE Access PP(99):1-1, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3057525.

Vitaly Ford and Ambareen Siraj, "GenCyberCoin: An Engaging, Customizable, and Gamified Web Platform for Cybersecurity Summer Camps and Classrooms", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, October 2019.

Vitaly Ford, Ambareen Siraj, and M. Ashiqur. Rahman, “Secure and Efficient Protection of Consumer Privacy in Advanced Metering Infrastructure Supporting Fine-grained Data Analysis”, Journal of Computer and System Sciences Special Issue on Cyber Security in the Critical Infrastructure: Advances and Future Directions, Volume 83, Issue 1, Pages 84-100, 2016.

Jeffery D. Dodson and Ambareen Siraj, "Applying Fuzzy Hashing to Steganography," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 421-425, 2015.

Ambareen Siraj, Blair Taylor, Siddarth Kaza, Sheikh Ghafoor (2015), “Integrating Security in The Computer Science Curriculum,” ACM Inroads, 6(2), pp 77-81

Summer Olmstead and Ambareen Siraj. “Cyberterrorism; The Threat of Virtual Warfare”, Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, November 2009.

Ambareen Siraj, and Rayford B. Vaughn. “Alert Correlation with Abstract Incident Modeling in a Multi-Sensor Environment", International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, vol. 7, no.8 , 2007.

Ambareen Siraj, and Rayford B. Vaughn, and Susan M. Bridges. "Decision Making for Network Health Assessment in an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System Architecture", International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), vol. 3, no. 2, 2004.

Ambareen Siraj and Rayford B. Vaughn. “Information Assurance in Wireless Residential Networking Technology – IEEE 802.11b and Bluetooth”, Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, February 2004.

Rayford B. Vaughn, Ambareen Siraj, and David A. Dampier. “Information Security System Rating and Ranking”, Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, May 2002.

Md Ahsan Ayub, and Ambareen Siraj: "Similarity Analysis of Ransomware based on Portable Executable (PE) File Metadata," Proceedings: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Conference (IEEE SSCI) to be held December 4th – 7th, Orlando, FL, 2021.

Ibrahim Yilmaz, Kapoor, K., Ambareen Siraj, & Abouyoussef, M. (2021). “Privacy Protection of Grid Users Data with Blockchain and Adversarial Machine Learning” Proceedings: ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS 2021) held virtually on April 28, 2021.

Ibrahim Yilmaz, Ambareen Siraj, and Denis Ulybyshev. "Improving DGA-Based Malicious Domain Classifiers for Malware Defense with Adversarial Machine Learning." IEEE 4th Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT 2020), Dec 3-5 2020.

Ibrahim Yilmaz, Rahat Masum and Ambareen Siraj: “Addressing Imbalanced Data Problem with Generative Adversarial Network For Intrusion Detection”, Proceedings: IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’2020), August 11-13, 2020.

Md Ahsan Ayub, Andrea Continella and Ambareen Siraj: “An I/O Request Packet (IRP) Driven Effective Ransomware Detection Scheme using Artificial Neural Network”, Proceedings: IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI’2020), August 11-13, 2020.

Sheikh Rabiul Islam, William Eberle, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, Ambareen Siraj, and Mike Rogers, Proceedings: “Domain Knowledge Aided Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection and Response”, AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering in Practice, Mar 23 - 25, 2020 at Palo Alto, CA.

Susan Jeziorowski, Muhammad Ismail and Ambareen Siraj: “Towards Image-Based Dark Vendor Profiling: An Analysis of Image Metadata and Image Hashing in Dark Web Marketplaces”, Proceedings: 6th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics IWSPA 2020, New Orleans, LA, March 18, 2020.

Md Ahsan Ayub, William A. Johnson, Douglas A. Talbert, and Ambareen Siraj: “Model Evasion Attack on Intrusion Detection Systems using Adversarial Machine Learning”, Proceedings: 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS: Princeton IEEE Information Theory Society), Princeton, NJ, March 18-20, 2020.

Md. Ahsan Ayub, Steven Smith and Ambareen Siraj: “A Protocol Independent Approach in Network Covert Channel Detection”, Proceedings: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2019), held in August 1st-3^rd, New York, NY, 2019.

Terry Guo, Animesh Dahal and Ambareen Siraj, “Precise Feature Selection and Case Study of Intrusion Detection in an Industrial Control System Environment”, 15th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining held July 13 - 18, New York, NY, 2019.

Anshu Bhattarai, Ambareen Siraj, “Increasing Accuracy of Hand-Motion Based Continuous Authentication Systems”, Proceedings: 9th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) held in New York, NY, November 8-10, 2018.

Gustavo Angeles, Terry Guo, and Ambareen Siraj, “An Exploratory IoT Testbed for Cyber-Physical Systems Security Research”, Proceedings: ACM Mid-Southeast Conference, held in Gatlinburg, TN, November, 2018.

Vitaly Ford, Daniel Taylor, Ambareen Siraj, “AMIsim: Application-layer Advanced Metering Infrastructure Simulation Framework for Secure Communication Protocol Performance Evaluation”, Proceedings: 11th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET ‘18) held in Baltimore, MD, August, 2018.

Vitaly Ford, Ambareen Siraj, Eric Brown and Ada Haynes, “Capture the Flag Unplugged: An Offline Cyber Competition”, Proceedings: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), held in Seattle, WA, March 8th - 11th, 2017.

Brian Ledbetter, Zach Wallace, Adam Harms, Ambareen Siraj, and Laurin Buchanan, "CySCom: CyberSecurity COMics," in IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, held in Tucson, AZ September 28-30, 2016.

Christa Cody, Vitaly Ford, and Ambareen Siraj, “Decision Tree Learning for Fraud Detection in Consumer Energy Consumption,” in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2015.

Khaled Rabieh, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ambareen Siraj, J. Misic, “Efficient Privacy-Preserving Chatting Scheme with Degree of Interest Verification for Vehicular Social Networks”, Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference, Selected Areas in Communications: Social Networks, San Diego, USA, 2015.

Lenin Mookiah, William Eberle, and Ambareen Siraj, “Survey of Crime Analysis and Prediction,” International Conference of the Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS), May 2015.

Vitaly Ford, Ambareen Siraj, William Eberle. “Smart Grid Energy Fraud Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks”. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014, held in Orlando, FL, December 9-12, 2014.

Ambareen Siraj, Sheikh Ghafoor, Joshua Tower and Ada Haynes. “Empowering Faculty to Embed Security Topics into Computer Science Courses”. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE), held in Uppsala, Sweden, June 23-25, 2014.

Vitaly Ford and Ambareen Siraj. “Applications of Machine Learning in Cyber Security”, ISCA 27th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2014), held in New Orleans, LA, October 13-15, 2014.

Summer Olmstead and Ambareen Siraj. “A Cyberlearning Environment for Smart Grid Security Education”, The 18h Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’18), held in San Diego, CA, June 16-18, 2014.

Vitaly Ford and Ambareen Siraj, "Clustering of Smart Meter Data for Disaggregation", IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing: Symposium on Information Processing in the Smart Grid held in Austin, TX, Dec 3-5, 2013.

Joseph Stites, Ambareen Siraj and Eric Brown, "Smart Grid Security Educational Training with ThunderCloud: A Virtual Security Test Bed", 2013 Information Security Curriculum Development Conference held in Kennesaw, GA, Oct 12-13, 2013.

Ambareen Siraj, Martha Kosa and Summer Olmstead, “Weaving a Tapestry Satellite Workshop to Support HS CS Teachers in Attracting and Engaging Students”, Proceedings: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), held in Raleigh, NC, February 29 - March 3, 2012.

Ferrol Aderholdt, Sheikh Ghafoor, Ambareen Siraj, and Stephen Scott “Integrity Based Intrusion Detection System for Enterprise and Cloud Environments”, Proceedings: 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), held in Melbourne, Australia, December 5-7, 2011.

Summer Olmstead and Ambareen Siraj. “Smart Grid Insecurity: A New Generation of Threats”, Proceedings: International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'11), held in Las Vegas, NV, July 18-21, 2011.

Ambareen Siraj. “Service Learning through Development of Computer Security Awareness and Training (CSAT) Seminar”, The 15h Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’11), held in Fairborn, OH, June 13-15, 2011.

Joseph McDaniel and Ambareen Siraj, “Potential Use of Chaffing and Winnowing for Secure Communication in a WAMS Environment", Proceedings: IASTED International Conference on Wireless Communications, held in Vancouver, Canada, June 1-3, 2011.

Marbin Pazos-Revilla and Ambareen Siraj, “An Experimental Model of a FPGA-Based Fuzzy Intrusion Detection System”, Proceedings: 26th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA-2011) held in New Orleans, LA, March 23- 25, 2011.

Joseph McDaniel and Ambareen Siraj, “Towards A Secure Frequency Monitoring Network (FNET) System ", Proceedings: 6th Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIR 10) held in Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, April 21-April 23, 2010.

Marbin Pazos-Revilla and Ambareen Siraj, “Integrating Fuzzy Logic with FPGA-based Technology for Network Intrusion Detection", Proceedings: 2nd Cyberspace Research Workshop held in Shreveport, LA, June 15- June 18th, 2009.

Ambareen Siraj, “Data Fusion for Improved Situational Understanding", Proceedings: 5th Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIR 09) held in Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, April 13th-April 15th, 2009.

Marbin Pazos-Revilla and Ambareen Siraj, “Tools and Techniques for SSE-CMM Implementation", Proceedings: 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2008) held in Orlando, FL, June 28- July 2, 2008.

Brandon Malone and Ambareen Siraj, “Tracking Requirements and Threats for Secure Software Development", Proceedings: 46th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2008) held in Auburn, AL, March 28-29, 2008.

Ambareen Siraj, and Rayford B. Vaughn, “Sensor Corroboration for Anomaly Sensors in an Intrusion Detection Environment", Proceedings: 20th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE 2007), held in Sanfrancisco, CA, November 7-9, 2007.

Ambareen Siraj, and Rayford B. Vaughn, “A Dynamic Fusion Approach for Security Situation Assessment", Proceedings: International Conference on Communication, Network and Information Security (CNIS 2007) held in Berkeley, CA, September 24-26, 2007.

Ambareen Siraj, Rayford B. Vaughn, “Multi-Level Alert Clustering for Intrusion Detection Sensor Data”, Proceedings: North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society International Conference on Soft Computing for Real World Applications, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.

Ambareen Siraj, and Rayford B. Vaughn, “A Cognitive Model for Alert Correlation in a Distributed Environment”, Proceedings: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Volume 3495 / 2005.

Ambareen Siraj, Rayford B. Vaughn and Susan M. Bridges, “Intrusion Sensor Data Fusion in an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System Architecture”, Proceedings: 37^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004.

Rayford B. Vaughn, Ronda Henning, and Ambareen Siraj, “Information Assurance Measures and Metrics - State of Practice and Proposed Taxonomy”. Proceedings: 36^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Hawaii, January 6-9, 2003.

Ambareen Siraj. “On Roads to Mitigate Privacy Invasions by Data Mining”. Proceedings: International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24-27, 2002.

Ambareen Siraj. “A Software Specification Inspection Checklist Based on IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications”. Proceedings: International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24-27, 2002.

Susan M. Bridges, Rayford B. Vaughn, Ambareen Siraj, "AI Techniques Applied to High Performance Computing Intrusion Detection", Proceeding: 10^th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis, Monterey CA, Volume 2, pp. 100-114, October 3-6, 2002.

Ambareen Siraj, Susan M. Bridges, and Rayford B. Vaughn. 2001. “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Decision Support in an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System”. Proceedings: Joint 9^th International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress and the 20^th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society International Conference on Fuzziness and Soft Computing in the New Millennium, Vancouver, Canada, July 25-28, 2001.