All these publications are for projects after joining TTU. For earlier ones, please check Dr. Salman's Google Scholar.
Where to Strike? Explanation-Guided Layer Selection for Poisoning Federated LLMs
Amir Faiyaz, Rukayat Olapojoye, Samin Dehbashi Sani, Tara Salman
Accepted in ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing.
Selective Layer Adaptive Attacks Against Federated Large Language Models, PDF
Rukayat Olapojoye, Amir Faiyaz, Tara Salman
2026 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11542419.
A Study of Model Poisoning Attacks on Federated Large Language Models, PDF
Amir Faiyaz, Rukayat Olapojoye, Gaurav Karwa, Tara Salman
2026 IEEE 5th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11539939.
GradualDiff-Fed: A Federated Learning Specialized Framework for Large Language Model, PDF
Amir Faiyaz; Tara Salman
The IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11141097.
XAI-Driven Input Masking to Mitigating Model Inversion Attacks, PDF
Samin Dehbashi Sani, Amir Faiyaz, Tara Salman
2026 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11542488.
iDLG-IG: an Explainability Guided Model Inversion Attack, PDF
Samin Dehbashi Sani, Tara Salman
2025 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things (AIBThings)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11296246.
FedSSV: Client Contribution for Secure Federated Learning Aggregation Using Scaled Shapley Values, PDF
Samin Dehbashi Sani, Rukayat Olapojoye, Tara Salman, Tianxi Ji, Marcio Andrey Teixeira
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 13, pp. 7737-7754, 2026, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2026.3674950
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11435920.
XAI in cybersecurity: A survey on techniques, challenges, and future directions, PDF
Samin Dehbashi Sani, Rukayat Olapojoye, Tara Salman, Marcio Andrey Teixeira
Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 102, pp. 104563, 2026, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2026.104563
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214212626001936.
Hierarchical Federated Learning: Approaches, Applications and Open Challenges, PDF
Syeda Sanjana Shahid; Tara Salman; Mohamed Baza, Marcio Andrey Teixeira
IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 190333-190353, 2025,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11224517.
Efficient Energy Theft Detection Utilizing Hierarchical Federated Learning, PDF
Syeda Sanjana Shahid; Tara Salman; Mohamed Baza; Gautam Srivastava
International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking 2025,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11106795.
Mitigating Gradient Inversion Attacks in Energy Theft using Hierarchical Federated Learning, PDF
Syeda Sanjana Shahid; Tara Salman; Mohammed Baza
The IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics (SaTC 2025),
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11136999.
FedECPA: An Efficient Countermeasure Against Scaling-based Model Poisoning Attacks in Blockchain-based Federated Learning
Rukayat Olapojoye; Tara Salman; Mohamed Baza; Ali Alshehri
Sensors 2025, 25(20), 6343,
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/20/6343
On the Analysis of Model Poisoning Attacks Against Blockchain-Based Federated Learning, PDF
Rukayat Olapojoye; Mohamed Baza; Tara Salman
2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC),
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10454875.
Securing AI-Driven ECG Classification with Robust Defense Against Boundary Attacks, PDF
Ucchwas Talukder Utsha; Tara Salman; Bashir I. Morshed
The IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics (SaTC 2025),
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11136979.
Adversarial Evasion Attacks on OCC-Based Machine Learning Intrusion Detection Systems in the Internet of Things
David Lykke Sorensen, Mohamed Baza, Mahmoud M Badr, Tara Salman, Amar Rasheed
The IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics (SaTC 2025),
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11136890.
Machine Learning vs Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection and Categorization in Multi-cloud Environments, PDF
John Akoto, Tara Salman
2022 IEEE Cloud Summit