Peer Reviewed Papers
Shane Waldrop, Aaron Alacar, Vitaly Andrejeus, Mahram Daneshi, Sawyer Cawthon, Roya Choupani, Erdogan Dogdu, William Mitchell, and Jesse Sullins. “Multi-Prompt Consensus Extraction for Cyber Threat Intelligence” (in preparation)
Suraj Thapa, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “Classifying Malware Using LLMs”. (in preparation)
Shane Waldrop, Mahram Daneshi, Roya Choupani, Erdogan Dogdu, Bill Mitchell. “Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Knowledge Graphs: A Comprehensive Review”. (in preparation)
Cong Huan Tran, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “Leveraging AI and Knowledge Graphs for Smart Grid Compliance Analysis and Cybersecurity Detection”. (in preparation)
William Mitchell, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani, "LoRA-Driven CTI Triple Extraction and Knowledge Graph Construction", Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for RAG and Textual Document Analysis (Doc2KG 2026), IEEE COMPSAC. 2026.
Vitaly Andrejeus, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani, "SAGE-CH: Read-Only Cyber Hygiene Assessment with Knowledge Graphs and AI-Assisted Remediation", The 1st International Workshop on AI and Forensics and Cybersecurity (AIFC), IEEE COMPSAC. 2026.
Diego Sanchez, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “Augmenting the Unified Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Using RAG for Enhanced Threat Detection”. IEEE WCCI 2026 Graphs Across AI Workshop.
Vitaly Andrejeus, Bill Mitchell, Sawyer Cawthon, Jesse Sullins, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “Automated Validation and Repair of Knowledge Graph Triples for Cyber Threat Intelligence”. In: Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity. IEEE. 2026.
Shane Waldrop, Erdogan Dogdu, Roya Choupani, Bill Mitchell. “Digital Precognition: Teaching Transformers to Map Cyber Threats Before Analysts Can”. In: Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity. IEEE. 2026. [Best Paper Award]
Shane Waldrop, Sawyer Cawthon, Erdogan Dogdu, Roya Choupani, Bill Mitchell. “Semantic Chunking and Consensus Filtering for Structured Extraction of Cyber Threat Intelligence”. In: Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity. IEEE. 2026.
Kibrom Bahlibi, Hoang Long Nguyen, Erdogan Dogdu, Roya Choupani, and Bill Mitchell. “Beyond Single-Hop: Link Prediction Through Multi-Hop Reasoning In Malware Knowledge Graphs”. In: Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity. IEEE. 2026.
John Deleon, William Mitchell, Shane Waldrop, Serena Reese, Tatum Beaugh, Amiran Fields, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “Bridging the Black Box: Explainable Anomaly Detection for Critical Infrastructure Systems”. In: Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity. IEEE. 2026.
Mohammad Shahedur Rahman, Mohammad Tahmid Bari, Md Alamgir Hossain, Erdogan Dogdu, and Roya Choupani. “SEGA-NET: LLM-Guided Semantic-Enhanced GAN Augmentation Network for Low-Resolution Image Classification”. In: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence x Data Knowledge Engineering. IEEE. 2026.
Shaw, L., Dogdu, E., Choupani, R., Womack, S., Le, M. (2026). "Socioeconomic Effects on Health and Well-Being Using U.S. County-Level Data". In: Han, H., Stamey, J. (eds) New Frontiers in Data Science. SDSC 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99879-9_9
Toward a Unified Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph: Leveraging Ontologies and Open Data Sources A Boyer, E Dogdu, R Choupani, JS Watson, D Sanchez, A Ametu, Southwest Data Science Conference, Recent Advances in Next-Generation Data Science, 2024, Springer, 17-33 [Best Paper Award]
Posters
Beyond Single-Hop: Binary Link Prediction in Malware Knowledge Graphs with Path Complexity Analysis
Kibrom Bahlibi, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani, Bill Mitchell
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
Bridging the Black Box: Explainable Anomaly Detection for Critical Infrastructure
John DeLeon, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani, Tatum Beaugh, Amiram Fields
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
LLM-Driven Q&A Agent over UCKG via Graph-Enhanced Retrieval and Text2Cypher
Shin Park, Kibrom Bahlibi, Sonpaorong Muchhim, Bill Mitchell, Dr. Erdogan Dogdu, Dr. Roya Choupani
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
MRS-PFIDS: Federated Learning Driven Detection of Network Intrusions in Maritime Radar Systems
Md Alamgir Hossain, Delwar Hossain, Roya Choupani, Erdogan Dogdu
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
Structuring Cyber Threat Reports: Entity Extraction and Graph Alignment for CTI
Bill Mitchell, Sawyer Cawthon, Aaron Alacar, Vitaly Andrejeus, Mahram Daneshi Bahreini, Jesse Sullins, Shane Waldrop, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
Unified Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph 2.0, Bill Mitchell, Shin Park, Sonpaorong Muchhim, Dohyeong Kwon, Peyton Bubert, Erdoğan Doğdu, Roya Choupani
Fall 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity And Artificial Intelligence
Thesis
Diego Sanchez, “Augmenting The Unified Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph AI”, MS Thesis, 2025, Angelo State University
Jason S. Watson, "Towards Autonomous Network Security Using Knowledge Graphs", MS Thesis, 2023, Angelo State University