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Paper 11/2025: Paper on Measuring the Computational Universality of Fully Homomorphic Encryption is accepted at PoPETs.
Honor 10/2025: David was selected to serve as a Fulbright Specialist for the 2025–2027 cycle.
Paper 10/2025: Paper on blockchain security is accepted at ACM DLT.
Talk 9/2025: David delivered a keynote at Simpósio Brasileiro de Cibersegurança 2025 (SBSeg 2025) in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
Award 09/2025: Pelumi won a Graduate Fellowship from UCF’s Office of Commercialization and Research.
Award 08/2025: Steffen won an NSF Graduate Fellowship (CSGrad4US).
Paper 08/2025: Paper on android malware analysis was accepted to IEEE AICCSA 2025.
Graduation 07/2025: Congratulations to Ilkin for successfully defending her dissertation -> Universal as an AI Engineer.
Graduation 07/2025: Congratulations to Ali for successfully defending his dissertation. Ali will join UCF as a Lecturer.
Graduation 06/2024: Congratulations to Jie for successfully defending his dissertation. Jie will join UCF as a Lecturer.
Graduation 03/2025: Congratulations to Aziz for defending his dissertation. -> Jazan University as an Assistant Professor.
Graduation 03/2025: Congratulations to Ahod for successfully defending her dissertation -> PSAU as an Assistant Professor.
Graduation 03/2025: Congratulations to Soohyeon for successfully defending his dissertation -> SMU as a Scientist.
Paper 03/2025: Paper on authorship attribution defenses was accepted to IEEE TDSC.
Paper 03/2025: Paper on ChatGPT-generated code authorship attribution was accepted to IEEE ICDCS.
Milestone 03/2025: Congratulations to Ilkin for passing her proposal presentation.
Milestone 03/2025: Congratulations to Jie for passing his proposal presentation.
Paper 02/2025: Paper on ChatGPT-generated code attribution was accepted to IEEE TDSC.
Milestone 01/2025: Congratulations to Ali for passing his proposal presentation.
Paper 10/2024: Paper accepted to NDSS 2025. Congratulations to Jie.
Milestone 10/2024: Congratulations to Jie for passing his candidacy.
Milestone 09/2024: Congratulations to Aziz for passing his proposal presentation.
Paper 02/2025: Paper on VR security was accepted to IEEE TDSC.
Milestone 08/2024: Congratulations to Ayo for successfully defending his dissertation.
Milestone 08/2024: Congratulations to Ilkin for passing her candidacy.
Milestone 07/2024: Congratulations to Ahod for passing her candidacy.
Milestone 07/2024: Congratulations to Ali for passing his candidacy.
Paper 02/2025: Paper on ML-based malware detection security was accepted to IEEE TDSC.
Milestone 05/2024: Congratulations to Aziz for passing his candidacy.
Milestone 03/2024: Congratulations to Ayo for passing his proposal presentation.
Graduation 02/2024: M. Alqadhi and M. Alkinoon have defended their dissertations and graduated with Ph.D. degrees.
Milestone 02/2024: A. Adeniran has passed his proposal milestone.
Graduation 11/2023: K. Human has passed his M.Sc. thesis defense and graduated.
Milestone 10/2023: A. Alguried and A. Alkinoon have passed their qualifiers.
Milestone 09/2023: M. Alqadhi and M. Alkinoon have passed their proposal stage.
Talk 11/2023: David delivered a talk on blockchain security at Loyola University Chicago.
Talk 10/2023: David delivered a talk on blockchain security at the University of Alabama.
Talk 08/2023: David delivered a talk at Yonsei University on VR security.
Talk 06/2023: David delivered a keynote on VR security at SNTA 2023, held in Orlando.
Paper 08/2023: One paper was accepted at ACM CCSW 2023.
Milestone 08/2023: Congratulations to Soohyeon for passing his proposal presentation.
Milestone 08/2023: Congratulations to Ayo for passing his candidacy.
Paper 06/2023: Three papers were accepted at CSoNet 2023 (vulnerability analysis in ML, VR, and web).
Paper 05/2023: New paper on ML security due to hardware-level attacks at IEEE MICRO.
Paper 05/2023: One paper on hospital breaches and security at IEEE ICCCN 2023. Congrats, M. Alkinoon et al.
Paper 05/2023: One paper was accepted at WISA 2023 on VR security.
Milestone 05/2023: M. Alqadhi passed his candidacy exam.
Milestone 04/2023: M. Alkinoon passed his candidacy exam.
Milestone 04/2023: S. Choi passed his candidacy exam.
Paper 04/2023: One paper was accepted at ICICS 2023.
Milestone 03/2023: A. Adeniran passed his qualifier.
Milestone 04/2023: Congratulations to Soohyeon for passing his candidacy.
Paper 11/2022: New paper on blockchain security at IEEE S&P 2023. Congratulations to Saad.
Paper 10/2022: New paper on location privacy at IEEE TMC. Congratulations to Ulku.
Paper 09/2022: New paper on in-network defense at ISOC NDSS 2023. Congratulations to Sian et al.
Paper 08/2022: New paper on reinforcement learning defenses at IEEE CNS 2022. Congratulations to Yu.
Paper 08/2022: New paper on reinforcement learning at ACM CIKM 2022. Congratulations to Won Joon et al.
Paper 07/2022: New paper on reinforcement learning at IEEE TNNLS. Congratulations to Mungjae et al.
Graduation 07/2022: Jabbar successfully defended and joined PSAU as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Paper 06/2022: New paper on Malware+ML at RAID 2022. Congratulations to Ahmed et al.
Paper 05/2022: New paper on in-network defenses at ACM CCS 2022. Congratulations to Changhun et al.
Award 04/2022: Ulku's VR security work was nominated for best paper at IEEE VR 2022.
Promotion 04/2022: David was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Congratulations to David.
Milestone 04/2022: Jabbar passed his dissertation proposal. Congratulations, Jabbar.
Award 04/2022: David received the college-wide 2022 award for excellence in graduate teaching.
Award 04/2022: David received the Teaching Incentive Award (TIP).
Graduation 03/2022: Ulku defended and will join Meta as a Research Scientist. Congratulations, Ulku.
Graduation 03/2022: Ahmed defended and will join Meta as a Research Scientist. Congratulations to Ahmed.
Paper 03/2022: New paper on acoustics as a cross-device entry method at CHI 2022. Congratulations to Ulku.
Paper 03/2022: New paper on privacy in free content websites at ACM SocialNLP 2022. Congratulations to Jabbar.
Award 02/2022: David received the Research Incentive Award (RIA).
Paper 02/2022: New paper on SSL use in free content websites at ACM CySSS 2022. Congratulations to Jabbar.
Paper 02/2022: New paper on VR security at IEEE VR 2022. Congratulations to Ulku.
Welcome 01/2022: Welcome our new doctoral students, Mohamed Alqadhi and Ali Alkinoon.
Paper 01/2022: New paper on noise in spread estimation at IEEE DSN 2022. Congratulations to Dinh et al.
Paper 01/2022: New paper on improving engineering education in IEEE Transactions on Education.
Paper 01/2022: New paper on DMA security in IEEE HPCA 2022. Congratulations to Kazi and Amro (NCSU).
Paper 01/2022: New paper on fabric-attached memory security at IPDPS 2022. Congratulations to Kazi et al.
Graduation 11/2021: Sultan defended and will join SEU as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Paper 09/2021: New paper on wearables security at ACM WPES 2021. Congratulations to Ulku.
Paper 09/2021: New paper on privacy policy understanding at ACM WPES 2021. Congratulations to Jabbar.
Paper 09/2021: Our ransomware detection work was featured in The Register, Tech Explore, Tech Radar, and Nordic Hardware.
Paper 09/2021: New paper on blockchain partition in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. Congratulations to Saad.
Paper 09/2021: New paper on DNS resolvers security in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. Congratulations to Jeman.
Welcome 08/2021: Welcome our new doctoral students: Soonhyeon, Ran, Ayodeji, and Hattan.
Paper 08/2021: New paper on blockchain security with improved bounds at ACM CCS 2021. Congratulations to Saad.
Paper 08/2021: New paper on blockchain security without mining at ACM CCS 2021. Congratulations to Saad.
Paper 08/2021: New paper on adversarial examples detection at IEEE ICCV 2021. Congratulations to Ahmed.
Award 07/2021: Our work on malware/IoT security received the Best Paper Award (Fast Abstract) at IEEE DSN 2021.
Graduation 06/2021: Afsah defended and will join Northeastern University as a postdoc. Congratulations to Afsah.
Talk 05/2021: David gave a talk on malware analysis at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique.
Internship 05/2021: Ulku will intern at Amazon this upcoming summer.
Internship 05/2021: Ahmed will intern at Visa Research this upcoming summer.
Paper 05/2021: New paper on deep learning for malware detection at IEEE TDSC.
Paper 05/2021: New paper on IoT malware detection at IEEE IoT Journal.
Paper 05/2021: New papers at Computers & Security, IoT Journal, Computer Networks, TMC, and IET Blockchains. Congratulations to Changhun, Afsah, Hisham, Amin, Rhongho, Ashar, and Saad.
Paper 04/2021: New paper on authorship attribution at ACM TOPS. Congratulations to Mo.
Award 04/2021: Our work was a Best Paper Candidate at ACM ICS 2021.
Paper 04/2021: New paper on secure memory systems at ACM ICS 2021. Congratulations to Mazen.
Paper 03/2021: New paper on blockchain security at IEEE ICDCS 2021. Congratulations to Saad.
Milestone 03/2021: Ahmed passed his candidacy. Congratulations.
Milestone 03/2021: Ulku passed her candidacy. Congratulations.
Milestone 03/2021: Sultan passed his proposal presentation. Congratulations.
Grant 02/2021: Our SFS program was funded. Thanks, NSF.
Graduation 02/2021: Saad passed his final defense and will join PayPal as a scientist. Congratulations.
Paper 02/2021: New paper on online safety at SocialNLP (WWW 2021). Congratulations to Sultan.
Appointment 01/2021: David was selected as a Distinguished Speaker of ACM and a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE.
Paper 08/2020: New papers at IoT Journal, IEEE TC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TMC, and Computer Networks.
Paper 06/2020: New paper on IoT security at ICICS 2020. Congratulations to Afsah.
Grant 06/2020: New award on IoT security from CyberFlorida. Thanks, CyberFlorida.
Graduation 06/2020: Jeman defended and will join Georgia Tech as a Postdoc. Congratulations, Jeman.
Graduation 06/2020: Jinchun defended and will join Texas A&M as a Postdoc. Congratulations, Jinchun.
Graduation 06/2020: Rhongho defended and will join Wayne State as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Rhongho.
Graduation 06/2020: Mo defended and will join Loyola University as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Mo.
Internship 05/2020: Saad and Ahmed will intern at Visa Research.
Internship 05/2020: Necip will intern at Google.
Graduation 03/2020: Hisham defended and will join KKU as an Assistant Professor.
Paper 03/2020: New paper on wearables privacy at ICDCS 2020. Congratulations to Ulku.
Paper 03/2020: New paper on IoT malware and ML security at IEEE ICDCS 2020. Congratulations to Hisham.
Paper 03/2020: New paper on multi-author attribution at PETS 2020. Congratulations to Mo.
Service 03/2020: David joined the program committee of ACM WiSec 2020.
Media 03/2020: David was interviewed by Fox35 for a piece on smartphone security.
Award 01/2020: Our work on blockchain security won a Best Paper Award at IEEE Systems Journal (2020).
Paper 12/2019: New paper on sketch for network measurement at IEEE INFOCOM 2020. Congratulations to Rhongho.
Paper 12/2019: New paper on website fingerprinting at IEEE INFOCOM 2020. Congratulations to Ahmed.
Internship 12/2019: SEAL members had a great time organizing ACM CoNEXT 2019. See the program!
Graduation 12/2019: Ashar defended and will join Clear Village as a Director of Engineering.
Award 11/2019: Our work on ML-based DDoS detection was a Best Paper Runner-up at IEEE DSC 2019.
Talk 07/2019: David gave a keynote on blockchain security at LightChain 2019, held in Atlanta.
Internship 04/2019: Saad, Afsah, and Jiyoo will intern at ISI/USC this upcoming summer.
Internship 04/2019: Jeman will intern at the Army Research Lab on IoT security.
Paper 03/2019: New paper on blockchain security at IEEE ICDCS 2019. Congratulations to Saad.
Paper 03/2019: New paper on IoT/ML security at IEEE ICDCS 2019. Congratulations to Ahmed et al.
Paper 03/2019: New paper on per-flow detection at IEEE ICDCS 2019. Congratulations to Rhongho et al.
Paper 03/2019: New paper on DNS security at IEEE DSN 2019. Congratulations to Jeman.
Paper 03/2019: New paper on access point security at IEEE TMC. Congratulations to Rhongho.
Conference 02/2019: Afsah, Ahmed, Amin, Hisham, Jinchun, Jiyoo, and Saad attended NDSS 2019.
Paper 02/2019: New papers on blockchain security (x2) at IEEE ICBC 2019. Congratulations to Saad et al.
Paper 02/2019: New paper on blockchain security at IEEE ICC 2019. Congratulations to Ashar.
Grant 02/2019: New grant from NVIDIA for our adversarial and deep learning work.
Service 01/2019: David served as General Co-Chair (with Zhi-Li Zhang) for ACM CoNEXT 2019.
Service 01/2019: David served as PC Co-Chair (with Wenjing Lou) for SecureComm 2019.
Service 01/2019: David co-organized the poster/demo session in ACM WiSec 2019.
Paper 12/2018: New book chapters (2×) on blockchain security accepted in a collection by Shetty et al. (2019).
Grant 11/2018: New grant from AFRL on blockchain security (via ODU). Thanks, AFRL.
Award 11/2018: Our work won the Best Paper Award at ACM DLoT 2018.
Outreach 10/2018: SEAL hosted 60 middle school students for a security awareness day via STEM Day.
Outreach 06/2018: SEAL hosted 80 high school students for a security summer camp via Camp Connect.
Graduation 06/2018: Jeff successfully defended and will join Niagara University as an Assistant Professor.
Paper 05/2018: New paper on authorship attribution at ACM CCS 2018. Congratulations to Mo.
Award 04/2018: David was elevated to ACM Senior Member (IEEE Senior Member since 2015).
Grant 04/2018: New grant from FC2 on mobile security. Thanks, FC2.
Service 04/2018: David served on the Ph.D. committee of An Wang (GMU), who successfully defended.
Service 04/2018: David served on the Ph.D. committee of Amirali Sanatinia (NEU), who successfully defended.
Paper 04/2018: New paper on vulnerability economics and mining at SECURECOMM 2018. Congratulations to Afsah.
Paper 04/2018: New paper on ransomware detection at IEEE ICDCS 2018.
Paper 04/2018: New paper on deep learning for HPC workloads at IEEE ICDCS 2018.
Grant 03/2018: New grant from AFRL for blockchain research. Thanks, AFRL.
Award 04/2018: Ahmed received an ORC Fellowship for 2018–2019.
Grant 03/2018: New grant from FC2 on IoT security (joint with My T. Thai, UF). Thanks, FC2.
Paper 02/2018: New paper on quality of threat indicators at ICASSP 2018.
Paper 02/2018: New paper on portable IoT hardware authenticators at ICASSP 2018.
Paper 01/2018: New paper on DDoS measurement at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Paper 01/2018: New paper on DNS privacy at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Service 01/2018: David joined the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Service 11/2017: David co-chaired ACM SCC with Qian Wang.
Award 11/2017: Jeman presented a poster at KOCSEA and won 3rd place award.
Service 10/2017: David co-chaired a special session on security and privacy at ICASSP 2018.
Grant 10/2017: NVIDIA donated GPUs for our adversarial and deep learning work.
Paper 10/2017: New paper on mobile security at ISOC NDSS 2018 (one of the top 4 security conferences).
Paper 08/2017: New paper on DDoS measurement at SECURECOMM 2017, held in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Paper 08/2017: New papers (×2) on threat intelligence at ACM HotWeb 2017, held in San Jose, CA.
Paper 08/2017: New paper on DNS security at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Promotion 08/2017: SEAL moved from SUNY Buffalo to UCF. David was promoted to Associate Professor.
Award 07/2017: Our work on biometric security won the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS 2017.
Internship 06/2017: Jeff, Jeman, Jiyoo, and David presented papers at IEEE ICDCS 2017 in Atlanta, GA.
Internship 05/2017: Jiyoo presented a paper at IEEE INFOCOM 2017 (Best in Session).
Grant 03/2017: New grant from AFRL on blockchain security (with Sachin Shetty, ODU).
Paper 03/2017: Five papers (DNS, IoT, web, mobile security) at IEEE ICDCS 2017.
Paper 01/2017: New paper on graph query privacy at Financial Cryptography 2017, to be held in Malta (April).
Grant 09/2016: New grant from NSF on the attack vector of privacy-enhancing technologies. Thanks, NSF.
Grant 09/2016: New grant from NRF on big data security. Thanks, NRF.
Grant 12/2016: New NSF grant to support IEEE CNS travel. Thanks, NSF.
Award 12/2015: David was awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Faculty Fellowship.
Appointment 08/2015: David moved from industry to SUNY Buffalo as an Assistant Professor, and SEAL was founded.

Our work is supported by NSF, AFRL, ONR, NIST, Intel, ETRI, Verisign, and other industry partners.