Cybersecurity

SAGE: Similarity-Based Cleaning of Poisoned Training Data from Verified Examples

As machine learning increasingly relies on public, untrusted data sources, data poisoning attacks, which inject malicious examples into training data to induce misclassification of …

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Chaeeun Han
ICDM MLC 2026

Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in Vehicular Routing

In modern transportation networks, adversaries can manipulate routing algorithms using false data injection attacks, such as simulating heavy traffic with multiple devices running …

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Taha Eghtesad
ICCPS 2026

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Assessing False-Data Injection Attacks on Transportation Networks

The increasing reliance of drivers on navigation applications has made transportation networks more susceptible to data-manipulation attacks by malicious actors. Adversaries may …

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Taha Eghtesad
AAMAS 2024
Distinguished Paper Award

Bug Hunters’ Perspectives on the Challenges and Benefits of the Bug Bounty Ecosystem

Although researchers have characterized the bug-bounty ecosystem from the point of view of platforms and programs, minimal effort has been made to understand the perspectives of …

Omer Akgul
USENIX Security 2023

Correct-by-Design Interacting Smart Contracts and a Systematic Approach for Verifying ERC20 and ERC721 Contracts with VeriSolid

Blockchain-based smart contracts enable the creation of decentralized applications, which often handle assets of considerable value. While the underlying platforms guarantee the …

Keerthi Nelaturu
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023

Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Reconnaissance Techniques

Adversaries are often able to penetrate networks and compromise systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in people and systems. The key to the success of these attacks is information …

Shanto Roy
ACM Computing Surveys, 2023

The Benefits of Vulnerability Discovery and Bug Bounty Programs: Case Studies of Chromium and Firefox

Recently, bug-bounty programs have gained popularity and become a significant part of the security culture of many organizations. Bug-bounty programs enable organizations to …

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Soodeh Atefi
WWW 2023

Bayesian Models for Node-Based Inference Techniques

Cyber attackers often use passive reconnaissance to collect information about target networks. This technique can be used to identify systems and plan attacks, making it an …

Nazia Sharmin
SysCon 2023

Principled Data-Driven Decision Support for Cyber-Forensic Investigations

In the wake of a cybersecurity incident, it is crucial to promptly discover how the threat actors breached security in order to assess the impact of the incident and to develop and …

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Soodeh Atefi
AAAI 2023

Strategic Cyber Camouflage

One of the most fundamental tasks for an AICA agent will be to manipulate information that an adversary can observe, either about a network or the AICA agent itself. This includes …

Christopher Kiekintveld
Autonomous Intelligent Cyber Defense Agent (AICA), 2023