% Islam Obaidat, Ph.D.: publications. Concise entries: author, title, booktitle or journal, volume, number, pages, month, year, address; manuscripts under review are unpublished entries with a short note. No DOIs or URLs: see the website for links.

@inproceedings{turjya2026shades,
  author    = {Turjya, Sapthak Mohajon and Usama, Moaz and Fawakherji, Mulham and Abouyoussef, Mahmoud and Obaidat, Islam},
  title     = {Seeing in Shades of Gray: {Real-Time} Federated {Image-Based} Malicious Traffic Detection},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN-W},
  pages     = {107--113},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Charlotte, NC, USA}
}

@inproceedings{arnob2026feasibility,
  author    = {Arnob, Shadman Sakib and Patooghy, Ahmad and Obaidat, Islam},
  title     = {On the Feasibility of {Side-Channel} Information for Malicious Traffic Detection in {IoT} Networks},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN-S},
  pages     = {279--280},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Charlotte, NC, USA}
}

@inproceedings{arnob2026sidechannel,
  author    = {Arnob, Shadman Sakib and Obaidat, Islam and Patooghy, Ahmad},
  title     = {{Real-Time} Malicious Traffic Detection in {IoT} Networks Using {Side-Channel} Information},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE DCAS},
  pages     = {1--4},
  month     = apr,
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Dallas, TX, USA}
}

@inproceedings{tavasoli2026seclm,
  author    = {Tavasoli, Mahsa and Sarrafzadeh, Abdolhossein and Mousavi, Yashar and Obaidat, Islam and Sowells-Boone, Evelyn R.},
  title     = {Poster: {SecLM} {SOC} Copilot: A {Retrieval-Augmented} Large Language Model Copilot for {APT} Alert Analysis in Security Operations Centers},
  booktitle = {Applications of Machine Learning 2026},
  year      = {2026}
}

@unpublished{rustam2026multilf,
  author = {Rustam, Furqan and Obaidat, Islam and Jurcut, Anca},
  title  = {{Multi-LF}: A Continuous Learning Framework for {Real-Time} Malicious Traffic Detection in {Multi-Environment} Networks},
  note   = {Manuscript under review},
  year   = {2026}
}

@unpublished{dimonda2026domainadaptation,
  author = {Di Monda, Davide and Rustam, Furqan and Obaidat, Islam and Pescap{\`e}, Antonio and Jurcut, Anca},
  title  = {Scalable and Deployable Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Trustworthy Network Intrusion Detection},
  note   = {Manuscript under review},
  year   = {2026}
}

@unpublished{arnob2026hierarchical,
  author = {Arnob, Shadman Sakib and Patooghy, Ahmad and Obaidat, Islam},
  title  = {Lightweight Hierarchical Detection and Classification of {IoT} Botnet Attacks Using {Side-Channel} Analysis},
  note   = {Manuscript under review},
  year   = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2025onemodel,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Rustam, Furqan and Jurcut, Anca Delia},
  title     = {One Model to Catch Them All: {Autoencoder-Based} Anomaly Detection in {Next-Generation} Networks},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM},
  pages     = {3323--3328},
  month     = dec,
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Taipei, Taiwan}
}

@inproceedings{rustam2025fewshot,
  author    = {Rustam, Furqan and Obaidat, Islam and Di Monda, Davide and Jurcut, Anca Delia},
  title     = {{Few-Shot} {Retrieval-Augmented} {LLMs} for Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic},
  booktitle = {Proc. CANS},
  pages     = {631--642},
  month     = nov,
  year      = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{lodh2025lightweight,
  author    = {Lodh, Suvajit and Obaidat, Islam and Rustam, Furqan and Jurcut, Anca Delia},
  title     = {Lightweight {Fine-Tuning} of {LLMs} for Explainable Intrusion Detection in {SDN}},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE WiMob},
  pages     = {1--6},
  month     = oct,
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Marrakesh, Morocco}
}

@inproceedings{rehman2025minimalist,
  author    = {Ur Rehman, Mohib and Rustam, Furqan and Obaidat, Islam and Jurcut, Anca Delia},
  title     = {Minimalist {LLMs} for Network Attack Detection via Quantization and {Low-Rank} Adaptation},
  booktitle = {Proc. ICAIT},
  pages     = {147--152},
  month     = oct,
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Liaocheng, China}
}

@article{mohawesh2025truth,
  author  = {Mohawesh, Rami and Obaidat, Islam and AlQarni, Ahmed Abdallah and Aljubailan, Ali Abdulaziz and Al-Shannaq, Moy'awiah A. and Bany Salameh, Haythem and Al-Yousef, Ali and Saifan, Ahmad A. and Alkhushayni, Suboh M. and Maqsood, Sumbal},
  title   = {Truth Be Told: A Multimodal Ensemble Approach for Enhanced Fake News Detection in Textual and Visual Media},
  journal = {Journal of Big Data},
  volume  = {12},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {197},
  month   = aug,
  year    = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{daraghmeh2025devicecentric,
  author    = {Daraghmeh, Mustafa and Obaidat, Islam and Jararweh, Yaser and Agarwal, Anjali and Kaur, Kuljeet},
  title     = {A {Device-Centric} and Temporal Learning Framework for Malicious {IoT} Traffic Detection},
  booktitle = {Proc. ICSC},
  pages     = {130--136},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Tampa, FL, USA}
}

@inproceedings{ramaprasad2024stacksmashing,
  author    = {Ramaprasad, Harini and Sridhar, Meera and Dangeti, Sushma I and Pradhan, Soham and Obaidat, Islam},
  title     = {Guided Learning and Interactive Visualization for Teaching \& Learning Stack Smashing Attacks \& Defenses: Experiences and Evaluation},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE FIE},
  pages     = {1--9},
  month     = oct,
  year      = {2024},
  address   = {Washington, DC, USA}
}

@inproceedings{devivo2024ddoshield,
  author    = {De Vivo, Simona and Obaidat, Islam and Dai, Dong and Liguori, Pietro},
  title     = {{DDoShield-IoT}: A Testbed for Simulating and Lightweight Detection of {IoT} Botnet {DDoS} Attacks},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN-W},
  pages     = {1--8},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2024},
  address   = {Brisbane, Australia}
}

@article{obaidat2024daedalus,
  author  = {Obaidat, Islam and Sridhar, Meera and Tavakoli, Fatemeh},
  title   = {{DAEDALUS}: Defense Against Firmware {ROP} Exploits Using Stochastic Software Diversity},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16234},
  month   = jan,
  year    = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2023ddosimq,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Palko, Zachary and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {From {DDoSim} to {DDoSimQ}: Enhancing {DDoS} Attack Simulations Through Full System Emulation},
  booktitle = {Proc. ACM CPSIoTSec},
  pages     = {37},
  month     = nov,
  year      = {2023},
  address   = {Copenhagen, Denmark}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2023ns3docker,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Kahn, Bennett and Tavakoli, Fatemeh and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {Creating a {Large-Scale} Memory Error {IoT} Botnet Using {NS3DockerEmulator}},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN},
  pages     = {470--479},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2023},
  address   = {Porto, Portugal}
}

@article{obaidat2022jadeite,
  author  = {Obaidat, Islam and Sridhar, Meera and Pham, Khue M. and Phung, Phu H.},
  title   = {{Jadeite}: A Novel {Image-Behavior-Based} Approach for {Java} Malware Detection Using Deep Learning},
  journal = {Computers \& Security},
  volume  = {113},
  pages   = {102547},
  month   = feb,
  year    = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2020wipdiversity,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {{Work-in-Progress}: Mitigating {Large-Scale} Memory Exploits in {IoT} Devices Using Software Diversity},
  booktitle = {ACSAC Posters and WIPs},
  month     = dec,
  year      = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{aldoulat2019medicaltext,
  author    = {Al-Doulat, Ahmad and Obaidat, Islam and Lee, Minwoo},
  title     = {Unstructured Medical Text Classification Using Linguistic Analysis: A Supervised Deep Learning Approach},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/ACS AICCSA},
  pages     = {1--7},
  month     = nov,
  year      = {2019},
  address   = {Abu Dhabi, UAE}
}

@inproceedings{english2019connman,
  author    = {English, K. Virgil and Obaidat, Islam and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {Exploiting Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in {Connman} for {IoT} Devices},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/IFIP DSN},
  pages     = {247--255},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2019},
  address   = {Portland, OR, USA}
}

@inproceedings{mieczkowski2019pineapple,
  author    = {Mieczkowski, Alek and Obaidat, Islam and English, K. Virgil and Um, Glenn and Sroczynski, Gavin and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {Poster: Exploit Delivery to Consumer {IoT} Devices Using {WiFi} {Pineapple}},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE SPW},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2019}
}

@inproceedings{alsaleh2018keydistribution,
  author    = {Al-Saleh, Mohammed I. and Alsmirat, Mohammad A. and Jararweh, Yaser and Obaidat, Islam},
  title     = {A Unified Key Distribution and Session Management Protocol for Mobile Video Surveillance Systems},
  booktitle = {Proc. IoTSMS},
  pages     = {234--238},
  month     = oct,
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain}
}

@inproceedings{mohanty2018controlhijacking,
  author    = {Mohanty, Abhinav and Obaidat, Islam and Yilmaz, Fadi and Sridhar, Meera},
  title     = {{Control-Hijacking} Vulnerabilities in {IoT} Firmware: A Brief Survey},
  booktitle = {Proc. IoTSec},
  year      = {2018}
}

@article{alsmirat2017security,
  author  = {Alsmirat, Mohammad A. and Obaidat, Islam and Jararweh, Yaser and Al-Saleh, Mohammed},
  title   = {A Security Framework for Cloud-based Video Surveillance System},
  journal = {Multimedia Tools and Applications},
  volume  = {76},
  number  = {21},
  pages   = {22787--22802},
  month   = nov,
  year    = {2017}
}

@article{alsmirat2017automated,
  author  = {Alsmirat, Mohammad A. and Jararweh, Yaser and Obaidat, Islam and Gupta, Brij B.},
  title   = {Automated Wireless Video Surveillance: An Evaluation Framework},
  journal = {Journal of Real-Time Image Processing},
  volume  = {13},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {527--546},
  month   = sep,
  year    = {2017}
}

@article{alsmirat2017internet,
  author  = {Alsmirat, Mohammad A. and Jararweh, Yaser and Obaidat, Islam and Gupta, Brij B.},
  title   = {Internet of Surveillance: A Cloud Supported {Large-Scale} Wireless Surveillance System},
  journal = {The Journal of Supercomputing},
  volume  = {73},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {973--992},
  month   = mar,
  year    = {2017}
}

@article{alsmadi2016lexicon,
  author  = {Al Smadi, Mohammad and Obaidat, Islam and Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud and Mohawesh, Rami and Jararweh, Yaser},
  title   = {Using Enhanced {Lexicon-Based} Approaches for the Determination of Aspect Categories and Their Polarities in {Arabic} Reviews},
  journal = {International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering},
  volume  = {11},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {15--31},
  month   = jul,
  year    = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2016ns3,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Alsmirat, Mohammad and Jararweh, Yaser},
  title     = {Completing {IEEE} 802.11e Implementation in {NS-3}},
  booktitle = {Proc. ICICS},
  pages     = {190--195},
  month     = apr,
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Irbid, Jordan}
}

@article{zaqaibeh2016bigdata,
  author  = {Zaqaibeh, Belal and Obaidat, Islam and Hussien, Wegdan},
  title   = {Big Data Analysis Techniques Using {Multi-GPUs} {MapReduce} Implementations},
  journal = {International Journal of Advanced Studies in Computers Science and Engineering},
  volume  = {5},
  number  = {11},
  pages   = {1--5},
  year    = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{obaidat2015aspect,
  author    = {Obaidat, Islam and Mohawesh, Rami and Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud and Al-Smadi, Mohammad and Jararweh, Yaser},
  title     = {Enhancing the Determination of Aspect Categories and Their Polarities in {Arabic} Reviews Using {Lexicon-Based} Approaches},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE AEECT},
  pages     = {1--6},
  month     = nov,
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Amman, Jordan}
}