SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

• MinChang Kim, Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Hyoungshick Kim, and Mohamad El-Hajj, “Power Profiling of Smart Grid Users Using Dynamic Time Warping”, Electronics Journal , (2025). 

• Yaser Baseri, Abdelhakim Hafid, Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Indrakshi Ray, “Statistical Privacy Protection for Secure Data Access Control in Cloud”, Journal of Information Security and Applications, (2024).

• Andi Fitriah Abdul Kadir, Arash Habibi Lashkari, and Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei. "Understanding Cybersecurity on Smartphones." (Book) Progress in IS, Springer, number 978-3-031-48865-8 (2024).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, MinChang Kim, and Dima Alhadidi, “Time-Series Load Data Analysis for User Power Profiling”, 2023 25th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) , Pyeongchang, Korea, Republic of, pp. 382-387 (2023).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Saeed Samet, and Ali Ghorbani, “Parent Process Termination: An Adversarial Technique for Persistent Malware”, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, (2023). 

• Yaser Baseri, Somayeh Sadeghi, Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Bill Belanger, and Ali Ghorbani, “Feedback Learning Approach for Risk Assessment of Users and Domains”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security , (2023). (Submitted)

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Arash Habibi Lashkari, and Ali Ghorbani, “Memory Forensics Tools: A Comparative Analysis”, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1-25 (2022). 

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Nastaran Mahmoudyar, Yaser Baseri, and Ali Ghorbani, “An Evaluation Framework for Industrial Control System Cyber Incidents”, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, p. 100487 (2021).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Rongxing Lu, and Ali Ghorbani, “An Evaluation Framework for Privacy-Preserving Solutions Applicable for Blockchain-based Internet-of-Things Platforms”, Security and Privacy , 2020;e131 (2020).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Ali Ghorbani, Hyoungshick Kim, and Jaeseung Song, “Hy-Bridge: A Hybrid Blockchain for Privacy-Preserving and Trustful Energy Transactions in Internet-of-Things Platforms”, Sensors 20(3), 928 (2020).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Ali Ghorbani, Hyoungshick Kim, and Jaeseung Song, “EVCahin: A Blockchain-based Credit Sharing in Electric Vehicles Charging”, PST2019: 17th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Fredericton, Canada (2019).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, MinChang Kim, Jaeseung Song, and Hyoungshick Kim, “O2TR: Offline OTR Messaging System under Network Disruption”, Computers & Security 82 (May 2019), 227-240 (2019).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Sangmin Lee, and Hyoungshick Kim, “O2TR: Offline Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging”, WISA: The 18th World Conference on Information Security Applications 2017, Jeju Island, Korea (2017).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong, Hoon Ko, and Hyoungshick Kim, “Security Challenges with Network Functions Virtualization”, Future Generation Computer Systems 67 (Feb 2017), 315-324 (2017).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaegwan Yu, Hyoungkee Choi, and Hyoungshick Kim, “Privacy-Preserving Nearest Neighbor Queries Using Geographical Features of Cellular Networks”, Computer Communications 98 (Jan 2017), 11-19 (2017).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaewoo Park, and Hyoungshick Kim, “Detecting False Emergency Requests Using Callers’ Reporting Behaviors and Locations”, DC2-2016: The 3rd International Workshop on Device Centric in conjunction with IEEE AINA , Crans-Montana, Switzerland (2016).

• Jinyong Kim, Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong, Hyoungshick Kim, and Jung-Soo Park, “SDN-based Security Services using Interface to Network Security Functions”, ICTC: The 6th International Conference on ICT Convergence , Jeju Island, Korea (2015).

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, Jaegwan Yu, and Hyoungshick Kim, “Privacy Preserving Nearest Neighbor Search based on Topologies in Cellular Networks”, DC2: The 2nd Workshop on Device Centric Cloud held in conjunction with IEEE AINA, Gwangju, Korea (2015). (Selected as “Best Paper”)

• Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei and Javad Vahidi, “Implementing Geo-encryption in GSM cellular Network”, COMM 2012: 9th International Conference on Communication , Bucharest, Romania (2012).