REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
[J2] M. H. Bhavsar, Y. B. Bekele, K. Roy, J. C. Kelly and D. Limbrick, "FL-IDS: Federated Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System Using Edge Devices for Transportation IoT," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 52215-52226, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3386631.
[J1] Y. Bekele, D. Limbrick & J. Kelly, “A Survey of QEMU-based Fault Injection Tools & Techniques for Emulating Physical Faults,” 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3287503.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS WITH PROCEEDINGS
[C9] Maxwell, K. D., & Jallim Hall, M., & Nare, O. E., & Bekele, Y. B., & Boonthum-Denecke, C., & Rose, S. W., & Muhammad, J. (2026, March), Redesigning K–12 Curriculum for a Paradigm Shift: Backward Design, Deconstruction, and Critical Thinking for Innovation in Engineering, Computer Science, and Business Paper presented at 2026 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference , University of Memphis, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--58002.
[C8] M. Bhavsar, S. Pradhan, Y. Bekele and R. Dave, "Federated Learning using Deep Learning-Intrusion Detection system (FL DL-IDS) for IoT Applications," 2025 5th International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), Zanzibar, Tanzania, United Republic of, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICECCME64568.2025.11277580.
[C7] Y. Bekele and M. Bhavsar, "Reliability of Deep Neural Network Models in Large-Scale Federated Learning Implementations," 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA), Boracay Island, Philippines, 2026, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ACDSA67686.2026.11468008.
[C6] Y. Bekele and M. Bhavsar, "GreenFL-IDS: Energy-Aware Federated Intrusion Detection for Transportation Edge IoT," 2025 International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Researches (ICECER), Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICECER65523.2025.11401378.
[C5] Bekele, Y. B., & Nare, O. E., & Uba, I. (2026, March), Revolutionizing Cybersecurity Education in Undergraduate Curriculum by Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models Paper presented at 2026 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference , University of Memphis, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--58005.
[C4] Yohannes Bekele, Ahmed Yiwere, and Daniel B. Limbrick, “Rowhammer Attacks on the Raspberry Pi 3B+,” Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), March 2021.
[C3] Y. B. Bekele and D. B. Limbrick, "Performance Evaluation of a Secure Microkernel on a Single- Board Computer," 2020 SoutheastCon, 2020, pp. 1-2, doi:10.1109/SoutheastCon44009.2020.9249735.
[C2] Y. B. Bekele and D. B. Limbrick, "Evaluating the Impact of Hardware Faults on Program Execution in a Microkernel Environment," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2022, pp. 149-152, doi: 10.1109/HOST54066.2022.9840063.
[C1] Y. B. Bekele and Y. Negash, "Power-Aware Routing in Optical Transport Networks With Physical Layer Impairment Constraints," 2021 IEEE AFRICON, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AFRICON51333.2021.9570896.
[T2] Y. B. Bekele, “Reliability and performance of secured single-board computer-based autonomous systems: A study on hardware fault occurrence,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA, Dec. 2023.
[T1] Y. B. Bekele, “Sleep mode operation for power consumption minimization in optical networks: A case study of Ethio Telecom backbone optical transport network,” M.S. thesis, Addis Ababa Univ., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec. 2018.
INVITED TALKS, KEYNOTES, AND TUTORIALS
[IT4] Jallim-Hall, M., Maxwell, K. D., Nare, O. E., Bekele, Y. B., Boonthum, C., & Mercer, L. (2026, June). Backward Design and the Intersection for Transformative Learning (ITL) Framework: Business, Engineering, and Computer Science Applications [Invited professional development workshop]. Toyota Leadership Academy Summer Institute, Toyota Motor North America, Plano, TX. Workshop materials developed in collaboration with Dr. Jeana Muhammad and Dr. Sylvia Rose.
[IT3] Jallim-Hall, M., Maxwell, K. D., & Mercer, L. (2026, June). The philosophy and practice of Backward Design: Designing instruction for student performance [Invited professional development workshop]. Toyota Leadership Academy Summer Institute, Toyota Motor North America, Plano, TX. Workshop materials developed in collaboration with O. E. Nare, Y. B. Bekele, J. Muhammad, C. Boonthum, and S. Rose.
[IT2] Yohannes Bekele, “Cyber-Security: A Hardware Attacks Perspective,” presented at the IEEE Hampton Roads Section, October 26, 2023.
[IT1] Yohannes Bekele, “ Machine Learning for Logistics and Supply Chain Management,” presented at Hampton University (Virtual), June 2024.