Publications

For a complete and updated list of our staff’s publications, please refer to their individual bios.

Selected Recent Publications

Journals

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CORE A)

Li, Yannan; Yang, Guomin; Susilo, Willy; Yu, Yong; Au, Man Ho; Liu, Dongxi, ‘Traceable Monero: Anonymous Cryptocurrency with Enhanced Accountability’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Cai, Chengjun; Zheng, Yifeng; Zhou, Anxin; Wang, Cong, ‘Building a Secure Knowledge Marketplace over Crowdsensed Data Streams’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Gao, Garrison; Dijk, Martin van; Xu, Lei; Yang, Wei; Nepal, Surya; Ranasinghe, Damith, ‘TREVERSE: TRial-and-Error Lightweight Secure ReVERSE Authentication with Simulatable PUFs’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11046
Li, Yannan Susilo, Willy; Yang, Guomin; Yong, Yu; Liu, Dongxi; Du, Xiaojiang; Mohsen, Guizani, ‘A Blockchain-based Self-tallying Voting Protocol in Decentralized Industrial IoT’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03710
Cheng, Yueqiang; Zhang, Zhi; Nepal, Surya; Wang, Zhi; ‘CATTmew: Defeating Software-only Physical Kernel Isolation’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Wang, Derek; Li, Chaoran; Wen, Sheng; Nepal, Surya; Xiang, Yang; ‘Defending against Adversarial Attack towards Deep Neural Networks via Collaborative Multi-Task Training’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Zhu, Xiaogang; Camtepe, Seyit; Feng, Xiaotao; Meng, Xiaozhu; Wen, Sheng; Xiang, Yang; Ren, Kui; Meng, Xiaozhu, ‘CSI-Fuzz: Full-speed Edge Tracing Using Coverage Sensitive Instrumentation’, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (CORE A)

Ahmed, Ejaz; Saeed Ullah; Kim, Hyoungshick, ‘Statistical Application Fingerprinting for DDoS Attack Mitigation’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Gao, Garrison; Su, Yang; Xu, Lei; Ranasinghe, Damith, ‘Lightweight (Reverse) Fuzzy Extractor with Multiple Reference PUF Responses’, IEEE Transactions on information forensics and security.
Kasra Kermanshahi, Shabnam, Liu, Joseph; Steinfeld, Ron; Nepal, Surya; Lai, Shangqi; Loh, Randolph; Zuo, Cong, ‘Multi-client Cloud-based Symmetric Searchable Encryption’, IEEE Transactions on information forensics and security.
Chen, Xiao; Li, Chaoran; Wang, Derek; Wen, Sheng; Zhang, Jun; Nepal, Surya; Xiang, Yang; Ren, Kui, ‘Android HIV: A Study of Repackaging Malware for Evading Machine-Learning Detection’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security.
Zhang, Zhi, Cheng, yueqiang; Gao, Garrison; Liu, Dongxi; Nepal, Surya; Zou, Yi, ‘Detecting Hardware-assisted Virtualization with Inconspicuous Features’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Palaniswamy, Basker; Camtepe, Seyit; Foo, Ernest; Pieprzyk, Josef, ‘An Efficient Authentication Scheme for Intra-vehicular Controller Area Network’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9046809
Cui, Hui; Wan, Zhiguo; Wei, Xinlei; Nepal, Surya; Yi, Xun , ‘Pay as You Decrypt: Decryption Outsourcing for Functional Encryption Using Blockchain’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8998372
Moustafa, Nour; Camtepe, Seyit; Choo, Raymond; Radwan, Ibrahim, ‘Outlier Dirichlet Mixture Mechanism: Adversarial Statistical Learning for Anomaly Detection in the Fog’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (CORE A*)

Yi, Xun; Bertino, Elisa; Rao, Fang-Yu; Lam, Kwok-Yan; Nepal, Surya; Bouguettaya, Athman, ‘Privacy-Preserving User Profile Matching in Social Networks’, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8695745

ACM Computing Survey (CORE A*)

Islam, Chadni; Babar, Muhammad Ali; Nepal, Surya, ‘A Multi-Vocal Review of Security Orchestration’, ACM Computing Survey.

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials ( IF=23.7)

Hamad, Salma Abdalla; Nepal, Surya, Sheng, Quan; Zhang, Wei Emma; ‘Realizing an Internet of Secure Things: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies’, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (CORE A*)

Senarath, Awanthika Rasanjalee; Grobler, Marthie; Gamagedara Arachchilage, Nalin Asanka, ‘ “Will They Use It or Not?” Investigating Software Developers’ Intention to Follow Privacy Engineering Methodologies’, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.

IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (CORE A*)

Chhetri, Mohan; Forkan, Abdur Rahim Mohammad; Vo, Quoc Bao; Nepal, Surya; Kowalczyk, Ryszard, ‘Exploiting Heterogeneity for Opportunistic Resource Scaling in Cloud-hosted Applications’, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing.
Singh, Anil; Nitin, Auluck; Rana, Omer; Jones, Andrew; Nepal, Surya, ‘Scheduling Real-Time Security Aware tasks in Fog Networks’, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing.
Nugroho, Robertus; Yang, Jian; Zhao, Weiliang; Paris, Cecile; Nepal, Surya, ‘What and With Whom? Identifying Topics in Twitter Through Both Interactions and Text’, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Issue.
Badsha, Shahriar; Nepal, Surya; ‘Privacy Preserving Location-Aware Personalized Web Service Recommendations’, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Issue
Wang, Shuo; ‘Backdoor Attacks against Transfer Learning withPre-trained Deep Learning Models’, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Issue.

IEEE Cloud Computing (CORE A)

Yu, Bin; Nepal, Surya; Zhu, Liming; Wright, Jarod; Liu, Joseph K.; Ranjan, Rajiv, ‘TrustChain: Establishing Trust in the IoT-based Applications Ecosystem Using Blockchain’, IEEE Cloud Computing.
Ranjan, Rajiv; Nepal, Surya; Grobler, Marthie; Carsten, Rudolph, ‘The Next Grand Challenges: Integrating the Internet of Things and Data Science’, IEEE Cloud Computing.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (CORE A)

Lai, Shangqi; Yuan, Xingliang; Sakzad, Amin; Salehi, Mahsa; Liu, Joseph K.; Liu, Dongxi, ‘Enabling Efficient Privacy-Assured Outlier Detection over Encrypted Incremental Datasets’, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Mahawaga Arachchige, Chamikara; Bertok, Peter; Khalil, Ibrahim; Liu, Dongxi; Camtepe, Seyit; Mohammed, Atiquzzaman, ‘Local Differential Privacy for Deep Learning’, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Roselin, Annie Gilda; Nanda, Priyadarsi; Nepal, Surya; He, Xiangjian; Wright, Jarod, ‘Exploiting the Remote Server Access Support of CoAP Protocol’, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8843970

IEEE Transactions on Computers (CORE A*)

Kara, Orhun; Esgin, Muhammed, ‘On Analysis of Lightweight Stream Ciphers with Keyed Update’, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (CORE A*)

Li, Wei; Liu, Dongxi, Liu, Bonnie; Liu, Dongxi; Liu, Ren Ping; Wang, Peishun; Luo, Shoushan; Ni, Wei, ‘Unified Fine-grained Access Control for Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing’, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

Conferences

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) (CORE A*)

Esgin, Muhammed; Zhao, Raymond; Steinfeld, Ron; Liu, Joseph K.; Liu, Dongxi, ‘MatRiCT: Efficient, Scalable and Post-Quantum Blockchain Confidential Transactions Protocol’, The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Han, Joon Kuy; Kim, Hyoung; Woo, Simon S., ‘Nickel to Lego: Using Foolgle to Create Adversarial Examples to fool Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API’, CCS 2019.
Lee, Daehwa Rayer; Jang, Yunhee; Kim, Hyoung, ‘A Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Protocol using Fair and Dynamic Sharding Management’, Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’19).
Jang, Heejun; Jin, Beomjin; Hyun, Sangwon; Kim, Hyoung, ‘Kerberoid: A Practical Android App Decompilation System with Multiple Decompilers’, Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’19).
Lai, Shangqi; Patranabis, Sikhar; Sakzad, Amin; Liu, Joseph K.; Mukhopadhyay, Debdeep; Steinfeld, Ron; Sun, Shifeng; Liu, Dongxi; Zuo, Cong, ‘Result Pattern Hiding Searchable Encryption for Conjunctive Queries’, The 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Sun, Shifeng; Yuan, Xingliang; Liu, Joseph; Steinfeld, Ron; Sakzad, Amin; Vo, Viet; Nepal, Surya, ‘Practical Backward-Secure Searchable Encryption from Symmetric Puncturable Encryption’, ACM CCS.
Lee, Daehwa Rayer; Jang, Yunhee; Kim, Hyoung, ‘A Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Protocol using Fair and Dynamic Sharding Management’, Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’19).
Jang, Heejun; Jin, Beomjin; Hyun, Sangwon; Kim, Hyoung, ‘Kerberoid: A Practical Android App Decompilation System with Multiple Decompilers’, Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’19).

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) (CORE A*)

USENIX Security (CORE A*)

Ahmed, Ejaz; Kwak, Il-Youp; Huh, Jun Ho; Kim, Iljoo; Oh, Taekkyung; Kim, Hyoungshick, ‘Void: A fast and light voice liveness detection system’, USENIX Security.

Crypto (CORE A*)

Esgin, Muhammed; Steinfeld, Ron; Liu, Joseph K.; Liu, Dongxi, ‘Lattice-based Zero-Knowledge Proofs: New Techniques for Shorter and Faster Constructions and Applications’, Crypto.

Networks and Distributed System Security (NDSS)(CORE A*)

Lauer, Hagen; Carsten, Rudolph; Salehi Shahraki, Ahmad; Nepal, Surya, ‘User-Centered Attestation for Layered and Decentralized Systems ‘, Networks and Distributed System Security.

International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)(CORE A*)

Islam, Md Zahidul; Liu, Jixue; Liu, Lin; Li, Jiuyong; Kang, Wei, ‘Evidence Weighted Tree Ensembles for Text Classification’, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
Bhattacharya, Paheli; Ghosh, Kripabandhu; Pal, Arindam; Ghosh, Saptarshi, ‘Hier-SPCNet: A Legal Statute Hierarchy-based Heterogeneous Network for Computing Legal Document Similarity’, International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM) (CORE A*)

Gao, Garrison; Chen, Shiping; Nepal, Surya; ‘A Tutorial on Building Lightweight SRAM PUF Key Generators for Resource Limited IoTs’, International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.
Gao, Garrison; Chen, Shiping; Nepal, Surya; ‘Building secure SRAM PUF key generators on resource constrained devices’, International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (CORE A*)

Liu, Fanzhen; Xue, Emma; Wu, Jia; Zhou, Chuan; Hu, Wenbin; Paris, Cecile; Nepal, Surya; Yang, Jian; Yu, Philip S., ‘Deep learning for community detection: Progress, challenges and opportunities’, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/693

International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) (CORE A)

Wang, Jianqiang; Ma, Slivia; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Li, Juanru; Ma, Zheyu; Mai, Long; Chen, Tiancheng; Gu, Dawu, ‘NLP-EYE: Detecting Memory Corruptions via Semantic-Aware Memory Operation Function Identification’, International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses.
Zhang, Zhi; Cheng, Yueqiang; Nepal, Surya; Liu, Dongxi; Shen, Quingni; Rabhi, Fethi, ‘KASR: A Reliable and Practical Approach to Attack Surface Reduction of Commodity OS Kernels’, RAID 2018.

European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) (CORE A)

Kasra Kermanshahi, Shabnam; Liu, Joseph K.; Steinfeld, Ron; Nepal, Surya, ‘Generic Multi-keyword Ranked Search on Encrypted Cloud Data’, ESORICS.
Ma, Slivia; Bertino, Elisa; Nepal, Surya; Li, Juanru; Ostry, Diet; Deng, Robert H.; Jha, Sanjay, ‘Finding Flaws from Password Authentication Code in Android apps’, The European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.
Phuong, Tran; Susilo, Willy; Kim, Jongkil; Yang, Guomin; Liu, Dongxi, ‘Puncturable Proxy Re-Encryption supporting to Group Messaging Service’, 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS2019).
Wang, Jianfeng; Chen, Xiaofeng; Sun, Shifeng; Liu, Joseph K.; Au, Man Ho; Zhn, Zhi-Hui, ‘Towards Efficient Verifiable Conjunctive Keyword Search for Large Encrypted Database’, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2018.
Zuo, Cong; Sun, Shi-Feng; Liu, Joseph K.; Shao, Jun; Pieprzyk, Josef, ‘Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption Schemes Supporting Range Queries with Forward (and Backward) Security’, 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.
Esgin, Muhammed; Ersoy, Oguzhan; Erkin, Zekeriya, ‘Post-Quantum Adaptor Signatures and Payment Channel Networks’, ESORICS.
Sultan, Nazatul; Varadharajan, Vijay; Camtepe, Seyit; Nepal, Surya, ‘An Accountable Access Control Scheme for Hierarchical Content in Named Data Networks with Revocation’, 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (CORE A)

Ma, Slivia; Feng, Runhan; Li, Juanru; Liu, Yang; Nepal, Surya; Ostry, Diet; Bertino, Elisa; Deng, Robert H.; Ma, Zhuo; Jha, Sanjay, ‘An Empirical Study of SMS One-Time Password Authentication in Android Apps’, The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5631&context=sis_research
Gao, Garrison; Xu, Chang; Wang, Derek; Chen, Shiping; Ranasinghe, Damith; Nepal, Surya, ‘STRIP: A Defence Against Trojan Attacks on Deep Neural Networks’, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) (CORE A)

Yansong Gao, Minki Kim, Sharif Abuadbba, Yeonjae Kim, Chandra Thapa, Kyuyeon Kim, Seyit A. Camtepe, Hyoungshick Kim, and Surya Nepal, ‘

End-to-End Evaluation of Federated Learning and Split Learning for Internet of Things’, SRDS.

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) (CORE A)

Liu, Jixue; Kwashie, Selasi; Li, Jiuyong; Liu, Lin; Bewong, Michael, ‘Linking Graph Entities with Multiplicity and Provenance’, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
Islam, Md Zahidul; Liu, Jixue; Li, Jiuyong; Liu, Lin; Kang, Wei, ‘A Semantics Aware Random Forest for Text Classification’, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC) (CORE A)

Chhetri, Mohan; Forkan, Abdur Rahim Mohammad; Vo, Quoc Bao; Nepal, Surya; Kowalczyk, Ryszard, ‘Towards Risk-Aware Cost-Optimal Resource Allocation for Cloud Applications’, IEEE International Conference on Service Computing.
Samant, Sunil; Chhetri, Mohan; Vo, Bao; Kowalczyk, Ryszard; Nepal, Surya, ‘Towards end-to-end QoS and cost-aware resource scaling in cloud-based IoT data processing pipelines’, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing.

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) (CORE A)

Wang, Shuo; Sinnott, Richard; Rudolph, Carsten; Nepal, Surya, ‘P-STM: Privacy-protected Social Tie Mining of Individual Trajectories’, IEEE International Conference on Web Services.
Wang, Shuo; Sinnott, Richard; Nepal, Surya, ‘A Privacy-Preserving Semantic Annotation Framework Using Online Social Media’, ICWS 2018.

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (CORE A)

Liu, Yang; Ma, Zhuo; Liu, Ximeng; Ma, Slivia; Nepal, Surya; Deng, Robert H.; Ren, Kui, ‘Boosting Privately: Federated Extreme Gradient Boosting for Mobile Crowdsensing’, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Boosting-Privately%3A-Privacy-Preserving-Federated-Liu-Ma/7c4e61068d7a46f49b2b202d6b2a8ef0ce94f340 ; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10218.pdf
Li, Nan; Varadharajan, Vijay; Nepal, Surya, ‘Context-Aware Trust Management System for IoT Applications with Multiple Domains’, 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019).
Wang, Derek; Wen, Sheng; Xiang, Yang; Zhou, Wanlei; Zhang, Jun; Nepal, Surya, ‘Catch Me If You Can: Detecting Compromised Users Through Partial Observation on Networks’, 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).
Nugroho, Robertus; Zhao, Weiliang; Yang, Jian; Paris, Cecile; Nepal, Surya, ‘The Joint Effects of Tweet Content Similarity and Tweet Interactions for Topic Derivation’, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
Li, Nan; Ma, Zhuo; Liu, Ximeng; Ma, Slivia; Nepal, Surya; Deng, Robert H.; Ren, Kui, ‘Fuzzy Extractors for Biometric Identification’, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) (CORE A)

Yang, Terry; Yi, Xun; Nepal, Surya; Han, Fengling , ‘Decentralized Voting: A Self-tallying Voting System Using a Smart Contract on the Ethereum Blockchain’, WISE 2018.
Yang, Xu; Yi, Xun; Zeng, Yali; Khalil, Ibrahim; Huang, Xinyi; Nepal, Surya, ‘An Improved Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol for Internet of Things’, IEE WISe 2018.
Badsha, Shahriar; Yi, Xun; Khalil, Ibrahim; Liu, Dongxi; Nepal, Surya; Bertino, Elisa, ‘Privacy Preserving Location Recommendations’, 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering.
Yang, Xu; Yi, Xun; Cui, Hui; Yang, Terry; Nepal, Surya; Huang, Xinyi; Zeng, Yali, ‘A Practical Authentication Protocol for Anonymous Web Browsing’, The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering.
Yang, Terry; Yi, Xun; Ryan, Casper; Van Schyndel, Ron; Han, Fengling; Nepal, Surya; Song, Andy, ‘A Verifiable Ranked Choice Internet Voting System’, 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2017.
Tang, Lihong; Ma, Wanlun; Wen, Sheng; Grobler, Marthie; Xiang, Yang; Zhou, Wanlei, ‘My Face is Mine: Fighting Unpermitted Tagging on Personal/Group Photos in Social Media’, Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2017.

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) (CORE B)

Zhu, Xiaogang; Feng, Xiaotao; Jiao, Tengyun; Wen, Sheng; Xiang, Yang; Camtepe, Seyit; Xue, Jingling, ‘A Feature-Oriented Corpus for Understanding, Evaluating and Improving Fuzz Testing’, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/items/678d1f8d-e35e-4091-bb90-a5a0eb28b34b/1/
Abuadbba, Sharif; Camtepe, Seyit; Gao, Garrison; Thapa, Chandra; Nepal, Surya; Kim, Hyoungshick; Kim, Minki; Kim, Kyuyeon, ‘Can We Use Split Learning on 1D CNN Models for Privacy Preserving Training?’, ACM ASIACCS 2020. (accepted) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12365
Lai, Shangqi; Yuan, Xingliang; Sun, Shifeng; Liu, Yuhong; Liu, Joseph K.; Liu, Dongxi, ‘GraphSE^2: An Encrypted Graph Database for Privacy-Preserving Social Search’, The 14th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Nepal, Surya, ‘Security is the Weakest Link: Prevalent Culture of Victim Blaming in Cyberattacks’, ASIA CCS.
Wijaya, Dimaz; Liu, Joseph; Steinfeld, Ron; Liu, Dongxi; Yu, Jiangshan, ‘On The Unforkability of Monero’, 14th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
Wu, Tina; Zhang, Rongjunchen; Ma, Wanlun; Wen, Sheng; Xia, Xin; Paris, Cecile; Nepal, Surya; Xiang, Yang, ‘What risk? I don’t understand. An Empirical Study on Users’ Understanding of the Terms Used in Security Texts’, Asia CCS 2020.
Kim, Jongkil; Camtepe, Seyit; Susilo, Willy; Nepal, Surya; Baek, Joonsang, ‘Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption with Outsourced Partial Decryption for Hybrid Security Models in Edge Computing’, ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.