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Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Mohamed Ali Kaafar

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Computer Science

D-Index
42
Citations
6284
World Ranking
8490
National Ranking
260

Overview

Mohamed Ali Kaafar is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and specializes in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications, and Sociology and Political Science.

The research topics covered by Mohamed Ali Kaafar include Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Spam and Phishing Detection, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Cryptography and Data Security, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting.

Frequent co-authors in Mohamed Ali Kaafar's research work include Hassan Jameel Asghar, Muhammad Ikram, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, I. G. Wood, and Nardine Basta.

Mohamed Ali Kaafar publishes predominantly in the venue arXiv (Cornell University), with 36 publications. Other notable publication venues include IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, and BMJ.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mohamed Ali Kaafar are:

  • "Mobile health and privacy: cross sectional study" (2021), BMJ
  • "DDCA: A Distortion Drift-Based Cost Assignment Method for Adaptive Video Steganography in the Transform Domain" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • "Towards a Zero-Trust Micro-segmentation Network Security Strategy: An Evaluation Framework" (2022), NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
  • "Investigating Evasive Techniques in SMS Spam Filtering: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models" (2024), IEEE Access
  • "The Where and When of Finding New Friends: Analysis of a Location-based Social Discovery Network" (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Best Publications

  • IP geolocation databases: unreliable?

    Ingmar Poese;Steve Uhlig;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Benoit Donnet

  • The Impact of Adverse Weather Conditions on Autonomous Vehicles: How Rain, Snow, Fog, and Hail Affect the Performance of a Self-Driving Car

    Shizhe Zang;Ming Ding;David Smith;Paul Tyler

  • How unique and traceable are usernames

    Daniele Perito;Claude Castelluccia;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Pere Manils

  • You Are What You Like! Information Leakage Through Users' Interests

    Abdelberi Chaabane;Gergely Acs;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • Digging into Anonymous Traffic: A Deep Analysis of the Tor Anonymizing Network

    Abdelberi Chaabane;Pere Manils;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps

    Muhammad Ikram;Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez;Suranga Seneviratne;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • Mobile health and privacy: cross sectional study

    Gioacchino Tangari;Muhammad Ikram;Kiran Ijaz;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • EphPub: Toward robust Ephemeral Publishing

    Claude Castelluccia;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Aurelien Francillon;Mohamed-Ali Kaafar

  • Privacy in content-oriented networking: threats and countermeasures

    Abdelberi Chaabane;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Ersin Uzun

  • Paying for Likes?: Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots

    Emiliano De Cristofaro;Arik Friedman;Guillaume Jourjon;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • Applying Differential Privacy to Matrix Factorization

    Arnaud Berlioz;Arik Friedman;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Roksana Boreli

  • Software-Defined Network (SDN) Data Plane Security: Issues, Solutions, and Future Directions

    Arash Shaghaghi;Arash Shaghaghi;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Rajkumar Buyya;Sanjay Jha

  • On the effectiveness of dynamic taint analysis for protecting against private information leaks on Android-based devices

    Golam Sarwar Babil;Olivier Mehani;Roksana Boreli;Mohamed-Ali Kaafar

  • Linking Wireless Devices Using Information Contained in Wi-Fi Probe Requests

    Mathieu Cunche;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Roksana Boreli

  • A differential privacy framework for matrix factorization recommender systems

    Arik Friedman;Shlomo Berkovsky;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • I know who you will meet this evening! Linking wireless devices using Wi-Fi probe requests

    Mathieu Cunche;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Roksana Boreli

  • The Value of Collaboration in Convex Machine Learning with Differential Privacy

    Nan Wu;Farhad Farokhi;David Smith;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • Watching videos from everywhere: a study of the PPTV mobile VoD system

    Zhenyu Li;Jiali Lin;Marc-Ismael Akodjenou;Gaogang Xie

  • Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Internet Filtering in Syria

    Abdelberi Chaabane;Terence Chen;Mathieu Cunche;Emiliano De Cristofaro

  • A Survey on Network Coordinates Systems, Design, and Security

    Benoit Donnet;Bamba Gueye;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

  • TLS in the wild: an Internet-wide analysis of TLS-based protocols for electronic communication

    Ralph Holz;Johanna Amann;Olivier Mehani;Matthias Wachs

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjay Jha
Sanjay Jha University of New South Wales
Emiliano De Cristofaro
Emiliano De Cristofaro University of California, Riverside
Thierry Turletti
Thierry Turletti French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Claude Castelluccia
Claude Castelluccia French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Shlomo Berkovsky
Shlomo Berkovsky Macquarie University
Aruna Seneviratne
Aruna Seneviratne University of New South Wales
Salil S. Kanhere
Salil S. Kanhere University of New South Wales
Ming Ding
Ming Ding Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Steve Uhlig
Steve Uhlig Queen Mary University of London

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