Publications

Peer reviewed Articles

Towards Real-time Network Intrusion Detection with Image-based Sequential Packets Representation

Jalal Ghadermazi, Ankit Shah, Nathaniel D. Bastian

IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2024.

A Sequential Deep Learning Framework for a Robust and Resilient Network Intrusion Detection System

Soumyadeep Hore, Jalal Ghadermazi, Ankit Shah, Nathaniel D. Bastian

Computers & Security (COSE), Vol. 144, 2024, Page 103928.

An Open World Foreign Object Debris Detection Framework Empowered by Generative Adversarial Network and Computer Vision Models

Mohammad Noroozi, Ankit Shah

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2024.

A Machine Learning and Optimization Framework for Efficient Alert Management in a Cybersecurity Operations Center

Jalal Ghadermazi, Ankit Shah, Sushil Jajodia

ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP), Vol. 5, No. 2, Article 19, June 2024, Pages 23.

Towards Optimal Defect Detection in Assembled Printed Circuit Boards Under Adverse Conditions

Mohammad Noroozi, Jalal Ghadermazi, Ankit Shah, José Zayas-Castro

IEEE Access

Empirical Evaluation of Autoencoder Models for Anomaly Detection in Packet-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Soumyadeep Hore, Quoc Nguyen, Yulun Xu, Ankit Shah, Nathaniel Bastian, Trung Le

2023 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), Tampa, FL, USA, 2023.

An AI-Assisted Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Vehicle Automation on Energy Consumption

Mohammad Noroozi, Hanieh Rastegar Moghaddam, Ankit Shah, Hadi Charkhgard, Sudeep Sarkar, Tapas K. Das, Timothy Pohland

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV). First Online: 20 April 2023.

Deep VULMAN: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-enabled Cyber Vulnerability Management Framework

Soumyadeep Hore, Ankit Shah, Nathaniel D. Bastian

Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), ISSN: 0957-4174, Vol: 221, Page: 119734, 2023.

A Novel Team Formation Framework based on Performance in a Cybersecurity Operations Center

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam, Steve Hutchinson

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2023. First Online: 6 March 2023.

Towards optimal foreign object debris detection in an airport environment

Mohammad Noroozi, Ankit Shah

Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), ISSN: 0957-4174, Vol: 213, Page: 118829, 2023.

Towards Optimal Triage and Mitigation of Context-sensitive Cyber Vulnerabilities

Soumyadeep Hore, Fariha Moomtaheen, Ankit Shah, Xinming Ou

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022. First Online: 22 February 2022.

Maintaining the Level of Operational Effectiveness of a CSOC under Adverse Conditions

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

Springer International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Vol. 21, 2022, pages 637-651.

Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Threat Analytics Framework for Constrained Spatio-Temporal Movement Intelligence Data

Jalal Ghadermazi, Soumyadeep Hore, Dinesh Sharma, Ankit Shah

2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2021, pages 1-6.

Two can play that game: An adversarial evaluation of a cyber-Alert inspection system

Ankit Shah, Arunesh Sinha, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 11, No. 3, 2020.

Vulnerability selection for remediation: An empirical analysis

Ankit Shah, Katheryn A. Farris, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia

Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS), Vol. 19. No. 1, 2022, Pages 13-22.

A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Rebalancing Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems

Aigerim Bogyrbayeva, Sungwook Jang, Ankit Shah, Young Jae Jang, Changhyun Kwon

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 23, No. 7, 2022, Pages 8704-8714.

An outsourcing model for alert analysis in a Cybersecurity Operations Center

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2020.

A two-step approach to optimal selection of alerts for investigation in a CSOC

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 14, No. 7, July 2019, pages 1857-1870

FedNIDS: A Federated Learning Framework for Packet-based Network Intrusion Detection System

Quoc H. Nguyen, Soumyadeep Hore, Ankit Shah, Trung Le, Nathaniel D. Bastian

ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP), 2024. First Online: 16 September 2024

Adaptive alert management for balancing optimal performance among distributed CSOCs using reinforcement learning

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, Hasan Cam

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 31, No. 1, January 2020, Pages 16-33.

Dynamic optimization of the level of operational effectiveness of a CSOC under adverse conditions

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 9, No. 5, 2018.

VULCON - A system for vulnerability prioritization, mitigation, and management

Katheryn A. Farris, Ankit Shah, George Cybenko, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Vol. 21, No. 4, May 2018, pages 16:1-16:28.

A methodology for ensuring fair allocation of CSOC effort for alert investigation

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia

Springer International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Vol. 18, No. 2, 2019, pages 199-218.

Understanding trade-offs between throughput, quality, and cost of alert analysis in a CSOC

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 14, No. 5, May 2019, pages 1155-1170.

Adaptive reallocation of cybersecurity analysts to sensors for balancing risks between sensors

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

Springer Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Vol. 12, No. 2, 2018, pages 123-135.

Optimal assignment of sensors to analysts in a CSOC

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2019, pages 1060-1071

A methodology to measure and monitor level of operational effectiveness of a CSOC

Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

Springer International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Vol. 17, No. 2, 2018, pages 121-134.

Dynamic scheduling of cybersecurity analysts for minimizing risk using reinforcement learning

Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Ankit Shah, Hasan Cam

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2016.

Detecting stealthy botnets in a resource-constrained environment using reinforcement learning

Sridhar Venkatesan, Massimiliano Albanese, Ankit Shah, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia

Proc. 4th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2017), Dallas, TX, October 30, 2017.

Book Chapters

Optimizing alert data management processes at a Cyber Security Operations Center

Rajesh Ganesan, Ankit Shah, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber-Defense, Sushil Jajodia, George Cybenko, Peng Liu, Cliff Wang, Michael Wellman, eds., Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (State-of-the-Art Survey Series), Vol. 11830, 2019, pages 206-231

A strategy for effective alert analysis at a cybersecurity operations center

Rajesh Ganesan, Ankit Shah

From Database to Cyber Security: Essays Dedicated to Sushil Jajodia on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, Pierangela Samarati, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, eds., Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11170, 2018, pages 206-226

A novel metric for measuring operational effectiveness of a cybersecurity operations center

Rajesh Ganesan, Ankit Shah, Sushil Jajodia, Hasan Cam

Network Security Metrics, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, eds., Springer, 2017, pages 177-207.
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