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Overview

Issa Khalil is affiliated with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Their research is situated within the field of Computer Science, contributing significantly to various subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work often addresses topics related to network security and intrusion detection, advanced malware detection techniques, and adversarial robustness in machine learning. Other key topics include spam and phishing detection, privacy-preserving technologies in data, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, as well as information and cyber security.

Issa Khalil has published in several venues, with a strong presence in arXiv (Cornell University), where they have contributed 24 publications. Additionally, they have appeared multiple times in the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Other venues include the Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems and Royal Society Open Science.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Following Passive DNS Traces to Detect Stealthy Malicious Domains Via Graph Inference (2020), ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
  • TASHAROK: Using Mechanism Design for Enhancing Security Resource Allocation in Interdependent Systems (2022), 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • A Large Scale Study and Classification of VirusTotal Reports on Phishing and Malware URLs (2023), Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • Ten years after ImageNet: a 360° perspective on artificial intelligence (2023), Royal Society Open Science
  • A Synergetic Attack against Neural Network Classifiers combining Backdoor and Adversarial Examples (2021), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

Issa Khalil frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Abdallah Khreishah, NhatHai Phan, Mohamed Nabeel, Guanxiong Liu, and Euijin Choo. The collaborative nature of their work spans multiple projects and publications, reflecting a diverse network of expertise and focus areas.

Best Publications

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

    Hazim Shakhatreh;Ahmad H. Sawalmeh;Ahmad H. Sawalmeh;Ala Al-Fuqaha;Ala Al-Fuqaha;Zuochao Dou

  • Smart Cities: A Survey on Data Management, Security, and Enabling Technologies

    Ammar Gharaibeh;Mohammad A. Salahuddin;Sayed Jahed Hussini;Abdallah Khreishah

  • LITEWORP: a lightweight countermeasure for the wormhole attack in multihop wireless networks

    I. Khalil;Saurabh Bagchi;N.B. Shroff

  • Cloud Computing Security: A Survey

    Issa M. Khalil;Abdallah Khreishah;Muhammad Azeem

  • Heavy Hitter Estimation over Set-Valued Data with Local Differential Privacy

    Zhan Qin;Yin Yang;Ting Yu;Issa Khalil

  • Generating Synthetic Decentralized Social Graphs with Local Differential Privacy

    Zhan Qin;Ting Yu;Yin Yang;Issa Khalil

  • MobiWorp: Mitigation of the wormhole attack in mobile multihop wireless networks

    Issa Khalil;Saurabh Bagchi;Ness B. Shroff

  • A Survey on Malicious Domains Detection through DNS Data Analysis

    Yury Zhauniarovich;Issa Khalil;Ting Yu;Marc Dacier

  • Prediction of User's Web-Browsing Behavior: Application of Markov Model

    M. A. Awad;I. Khalil

  • Stream: Low Overhead Wireless Reprogramming for Sensor Networks

    R.K. Panta;I. Khalil;S. Bagchi

  • LiteWorp: Detection and isolation of the wormhole attack in static multihop wireless networks

    Issa Khalil;Saurabh Bagchi;Ness B. Shroff

  • Efficient 3D placement of a UAV using particle swarm optimization

    Hazim Shakhatreh;Abdallah Khreishah;Ayoub Alsarhan;Issa Khalil

  • Discovering Malicious Domains through Passive DNS Data Graph Analysis

    Issa Khalil;Ting Yu;Bei Guan

  • Analyzing Subgraph Statistics from Extended Local Views with Decentralized Differential Privacy

    Haipei Sun;Xiaokui Xiao;Issa Khalil;Yin Yang

  • DICAS: Detection, Diagnosis and Isolation of Control Attacks in Sensor Networks

    I. Khalil;S. Bagchi;C. Nina-Rotaru

  • Systematization of Knowledge (SoK): A Systematic Review of Software-Based Web Phishing Detection

    Zuochao Dou;Issa Khalil;Abdallah Khreishah;Ala Al-Fuqaha

  • Protocol for secure and energy-efficient reprogramming of wireless multi-hop sensor networks

    Saurabh Bagchi;Ness B. Shroff;Issa M. I. Khalil;Rajesh K. Panta

  • Stealthy Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Detection and Countermeasure

    I. Khalil;S. Bagchi

  • UnMask: Utilizing neighbor monitoring for attack mitigation in multihop wireless sensor networks

    Issa Khalil;Saurabh Bagchi;Cristina N. Rotaru;Ness B. Shroff

  • Consolidated Identity Management System for secure mobile cloud computing

    Issa Khalil;Abdallah Khreishah;Muhammad Azeem

  • Security Concerns in Cloud Computing

    Issa M. Khalil;Abdallah Khreishah;Salah Bouktif;Azeem Ahmad

  • MOBIWORP: Mitigation of the Wormhole Attack in Mobile Multihop Wireless Networks

    Issa Khalil;Saurabh Bagchi;Ness B. Shroff

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdallah Khreishah
Abdallah Khreishah New Jersey Institute of Technology
Saurabh Bagchi
Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Jie Wu
Jie Wu Temple University
Ness B. Shroff
Ness B. Shroff The Ohio State University
Ala Al-Fuqaha
Ala Al-Fuqaha Western Michigan University
Jacob Chakareski
Jacob Chakareski New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mohsen Guizani
Mohsen Guizani Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Mazen O. Hasna
Mazen O. Hasna Qatar University
Zhan Qin
Zhan Qin Zhejiang University

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