Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar

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1. Advanced Persistent Threat Detection Using Data Provenance and Metric Learning

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Yigong Wang, G. Ayoade, Y. Gao +4 more

   2023IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing28 citations

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2. Evolving Advanced Persistent Threat Detection using Provenance Graph and Metric Learning

   G. Ayoade, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Pracheta Sahoo, Y. Gao +4 more

   2020IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security22 citations

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3. Knowledge Mining in Cybersecurity: From Attack to Defense

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, S. Halim, Yibo Hu, A. Singhal +2 more

   2022Database Security15 citations Open access

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4. The Design and Application of a Unified Ontology for Cyber Security

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, F. Rahman, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan +1 more

   2023International Conferences on Information Science and System14 citations

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5. LLM-Sentry: A Model-Agnostic Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Securing Large Language Models

   Saquib Irtiza, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Arowa Yasmeen, Latifur Khan +2 more

   2024International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications10 citations

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6. The Design of an Ontology for ATT&CK and its Application to Cybersecurity

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, S. Halim, A. Singhal, Basel Abdeen +2 more

   2023Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy9 citations Open access

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7. Enhancing Security Insights with KnowGen-RAG: Combining Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, and Multimodal Interpretability

   A. Sharma, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, B. Thuraisingham, Latifur Khan

   2025IWSPA@CODASPY6 citations Open access

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8. Retrieval Augmented Generation-Based Large Language Models for Bridging Transportation Cybersecurity Legal Knowledge Gaps

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Md Nahiyan Uddin, Latifur Khan, Trayce Hockstad +3 more

   2025Transportation Research Record4 citations Open access

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9. Identifying Tactics of Advanced Persistent Threats with Limited Attack Traces

   Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Yigong Wang, Md Shihabul Islam, A. Singhal +2 more

   2021International Conferences on Information Science and System4 citations

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10. Transportation Cyber Incident Awareness through Generative AI-Based Incident Analysis and Retrieval-Augmented Question-Answering Systems

    Ostonya Thomas, Muhaimin Bin Munir, J. Tine, Mizanur Rahman +6 more

    2025arXiv.org3 citations

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11. FSDAM: Few-Shot Driving Attention Modeling via Vision-Language Coupling

    Kaiser Hamid, C. Cui, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Zi-Ran Wang +1 more

    2025arXiv.org2 citations

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12. A Novel Secret Sharing Approach for Privacy-Preserving Authenticated Disease Risk Queries in Genomic Databases

    Maitraye Das, Nusrat Jahan Mozumder, Sharmin Afrose, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar +1 more

    2018Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference2 citations

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13. Streamlining Research Complexities for AI Agents: Charting Pathways to Innovative Idea Generation

    Jinghui Guo, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Latifur Khan, B. Thuraisingham +1 more

    20252025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA)1 citations

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14. Trustworthy and Secure Artificial Intelligence for Transportation Systems Security and Resiliency

    B. Thuraisingham, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar

    2025SAT-CPS@CODASPY1 citations

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15. Formalizing Usable Security Metrics: A Systematic Approach to Definition, Measurement, and Evaluation of In-the-Wild Solutions

    Abena Brempomaa Boateng, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Joyram Chakraborty

    2026International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Applications0 citations

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16. Inference Under Opposition: Counterfactual Evaluation for Answer Stability in Large Language Models

    Md. Nafis Tahmid Akhand, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, B. Thuraisingham

    2026IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration0 citations

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17. Understanding the Usability of Cryptographic Verification Tools

    Tarikul Islam, Y. Islam, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Imtiaz Karim

    20260 citations

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18. SPARE: Securing Progressive Web Applications Against Unauthorized Replications

    Sajib Talukder, N. Haque, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar

    2025arXiv.org0 citations

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19. Data Security and Privacy Regulation in the U.S.A: A 50-State Legislative Survey

    Trayce Hockstad, Mizanur Rahman, Mashrur Chowdhury, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar +2 more

    20250 citations

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20. Interpretable Modeling of Driver Attention Shifts with a Vision–Language Model

    Kaiser Hamid, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Peihan Li, Na-De Liang

    2025Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting0 citations Open access

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21. Towards Privacy-preserving Authenticated Disease Risk Queries

    Nusrat Jahan Mozumder, Maitraye Das, Tanzima Hashem, Sharmin Afrose +1 more

    2019Journal of Information Processing0 citations Open access

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