Projects & Publications

AI & Cybersecurity Projects & Research Artifacts

This section highlights my peer-reviewed research publications in AI and cybersecurity, focusing on practical security challenges informed by real-world systems and data. The work emphasizes problem formulation, empirical analysis, and validated insights, without exposing proprietary implementations.

What You’ll Find Here

  • Top-Tier Research Papers: Publications at leading venues such as ACM CCS, SIGMOD, SAC, and CoLLAs
  • AI for Cybersecurity: Studies on phishing detection, user behavior analytics, credential exposure, and threat intelligence
  • Privacy-Preserving & Federated Learning: Research addressing secure, communication-efficient, and non-IID distributed learning
  • Data Quality & Robust Evaluation: Analyses of annotation errors, label noise, and their impact on model reliability and security decisions
  • Industry-Informed Research: Problem settings motivated by large-scale, real-world security environments, abstracted to respect confidentiality

Each publication distills generalizable insights and lessons learned from applied research, contributing to both academic understanding and practical security decision-making.


Browse the publications below or use tags to explore specific research themes such as Federated Learning, Data Quality, Secure ML, and User Behavior Analytics

Impulse in the Clickstream -Behavioral Insights from Browsing History

Impulse in the Clickstream -Behavioral Insights from Browsing History

An empirical study of impulsive clicking behavior using real-world browser history data to enable adaptive, behavior-aware cybersecurity defenses.

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Toward Scalable Human-in-the-Loop Annotation Error Detection with Noise-Aware Training

Toward Scalable Human-in-the-Loop Annotation Error Detection with Noise-Aware Training

A systematic study of how label noise degrades annotation error detection systems and how simple noise-robust training strategies can restore scalability and reliability.

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Unmasking Label Errors: Why Cybersecurity Benchmarks Need Stronger Benchmarks

Unmasking Label Errors: Why Cybersecurity Benchmarks Need Stronger Benchmarks

An empirical investigation into annotation errors in cybersecurity benchmarks, revealing how noisy test labels distort model evaluation and mislead progress in threat intelligence.

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Reducing Communication Overhead in Federated Learning with Parameter-Efficient Finetuning

Reducing Communication Overhead in Federated Learning with Parameter-Efficient Finetuning

An empirical study showing how parameter-efficient finetuning enables scalable, privacy-preserving federated learning for large language models with drastically reduced communication costs.

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FedFAME: Rethinking Federated Semi-Supervised Learning Without Data Augmentation

FedFAME: Rethinking Federated Semi-Supervised Learning Without Data Augmentation

Introducing FedFAME, a data augmentation–free framework for federated semi-supervised learning that remains robust under extreme non-IID data distributions.

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Context-Aware PDF Annotation Extraction for Research Productivity

Context-Aware PDF Annotation Extraction for Research Productivity

A practical utility to extract enriched context sentences for highlighted annotations in PDFs, augmenting standard annotation export tools with full-sentence context for better comprehension and reuse.

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