2026 Ehab Al-Shaer: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6443	6254	2868	2761	311	9920

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ehab Al-Shaer is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a significant number of publications spanning various subfields and topics within the discipline.

The main areas of study include:

Information Systems
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering

The scientist's work covers important topics such as:

Information and Cyber Security
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Software Engineering Research
Topic Modeling
Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

Ehab Al-Shaer's publication record includes contributions in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Medicine and Psychology
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Journal of Information Security and Applications
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ehab Al-Shaer include:

"SODA: A System for Cyber Deception Orchestration and Automation" (2021), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
"SecureBERT: A Domain-Specific Language Model for Cybersecurity" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
"ThreatZoom: CVE2CWE using Hierarchical Neural Network" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
"A game-theoretic analysis to defend against remote operating system fingerprinting" (2020), Journal of Information Security and Applications
"CVE-driven Attack Technique Prediction with Semantic Information Extraction and a Domain-specific Language Model" (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ehab Al-Shaer include:

Ehsan Aghaei
Waseem Shadid
Basel Abdeen
Latifur Khan
Qi Duan

Recognition in the professional community includes the designation of ACM Senior Member awarded in 2009.

Best Publications

Openflow random host mutation: transparent moving target defense using software defined networking

Jafar Haadi Jafarian;Ehab Al-Shaer;Qi Duan

700
Citations
Discovery of policy anomalies in distributed firewalls

E.S. Al-Shaer;H.H. Hamed

586
Citations
Conflict classification and analysis of distributed firewall policies

E. Al-Shaer;H. Hamed;R. Boutaba;M. Hasan

427
Citations
Firewall Policy Advisor for anomaly discovery and rule editing

E.S. Al-Shaer;H.H. Hamed

415
Citations
FlowChecker: configuration analysis and verification of federated openflow infrastructures

Ehab Al-Shaer;Saeed Al-Haj

402
Citations
Modeling and Management of Firewall Policies

Ehab S. Al-Shaer;Hazem H. Hamed

335
Citations
Taxonomy of conflicts in network security policies

H. Hamed;E. Al-Shaer

254
Citations
Randomizing AMI configuration for proactive defense in smart grid

Muhammad Qasim Ali;Ehab Al-Shaer;Qi Duan

249
Citations
Network configuration in a box: towards end-to-end verification of network reachability and security

Ehab Al-Shaer;Will Marrero;Adel El-Atawy;Khalid ElBadawi

243
Citations
Modeling and verification of IPSec and VPN security policies

H. Hamed;E. Al-Shaer;W. Marrero

229
Citations
TTPDrill: Automatic and Accurate Extraction of Threat Actions from Unstructured Text of CTI Sources

Ghaith Husari;Ehab Al-Shaer;Mohiuddin Ahmed;Bill Chu

196
Citations
Random Host Mutation for Moving Target Defense

Ehab Al-Shaer;Qi Duan;Jafar Haadi Jafarian

185
Citations
Dynamic rule-ordering optimization for high-speed firewall filtering

Hazem Hamed;Ehab Al-Shaer

170
Citations
An Effective Address Mutation Approach for Disrupting Reconnaissance Attacks

Jafar Haadi Jafarian;Ehab Al-Shaer;Qi Duan

160
Citations
Object-oriented components for high-speed network programming

Douglas C. Schmidt;Tim Harrison;Ehab Al-Shaer

149
Citations
Efficient Random Route Mutation considering flow and network constraints

Qi Duan;Ehab Al-Shaer;Haadi Jafarian

146
Citations
Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Data Mining Techniques

K. Golnabi;R.K. Min;L. Khan;E. Al-Shaer

138
Citations
SecureBERT: A Domain-Specific Language Model for Cybersecurity

Unknown

137
Citations
Toward Network Configuration Randomization for Moving Target Defense

Ehab Al-Shaer

136
Citations
Interactive distance learning over intranets

K. Maly;H. Abdel-Wahab;C.M. Overstreet;J.C. Wild

124
Citations
Adaptive Statistical Optimization Techniques for Firewall Packet Filtering

H. Hamed;A. El-Atawy;E. Al-Shaer

120
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Latifur Khan The University of Texas at Dallas

Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo

Angelos D. Keromytis Georgia Institute of Technology

Simon Dobson University of St Andrews

Stefano Paraboschi University of Bergamo

Khaled Salah Khalifa University

Guy Pujolle Sorbonne University

Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida

Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas

External Links

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