Recent Publications from FIRE Lab.

2026

Noise, Why Can’t You Bend? Detecting Adversarial Perturbations in Wireless Sensing via Structural Fragility

Authors: Md. Hasan Shahriar, Ning Wang, Amit Kumar Sikder, Naren Ramakrishnan, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou.
Venue: 21st ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2026).

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2026

Achieving ZEN: Combining Mathematical and Programmatic Deep Learning Model Representations for Attribution and Reuse

Authors: David Oygenblik, Dinko Dermenzhiev, Filippos Sofias, Mingxuan Yao, Haichuan Xu, Runze Zhang, Jeman Park, Amit Sikder, Brendan Saltaformaggio.
Venue: Proceedings of the Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2026

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2025

Enhanced Web Application Security Through Proactive Dead Drop Resolver Remediation

Authors: Jonathan Fuller, Mingxuan Yao, Saumya Agarwal, Srimanta Barua, Taleb Hirani, Amit Kumar Sikder, Brendan Saltaformaggio
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025.

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2024

Pulling off the mask: Forensic analysis of the deceptive creator wallets behind smart contract fraud

Authors: Mingxuan Yao, Runze Zhang, Haichuan Xu, Shih-Huan Chou, Varun Chowdhary Paturi, Amit Kumar Sikder, Brendan Saltaformaggio
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2024

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2023

Hiding in plain sight: An empirical study of web application abuse in malware

Authors: Mingxuan Yao, Jonathan Fuller, Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Saumya Agarwal, Amit Kumar Sikder, Brendan Saltaformaggio
Venue: USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2023

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2022

Who’s controlling my device? Multi-user multi-device-aware access control system for shared smart home environment

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z Berkay Celik, Hidayet Aksu, Patrick McDaniel, Engin Kirda, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2022

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2022

The Truth Shall Set Thee Free: Enabling Practical Forensic Capabilities in Smart Environments

Authors: Leonardo Babun, Amit Kumar Sikder, Acar Abbas, A. Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022, 2022

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2022

Systematic threat analysis of modern unified healthcare communication systems

Authors: AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Ahmet Aris, Amit Kumar Sikder, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2022

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2021

Sentinel: A robust intrusion detection system for IoT networks using kernel-level system information

Authors: Adrien Cosson, Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, 2021

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2021

Early diagnosis with alternative approaches: innovation in lung cancer care

Authors: Ahmed Hasnain Jalal, Amit Kumar Sikder, Fahmida Alam, Sharraf Samin, Sharmin S Rahman, Md Morshed A Khan, Masudur R Siddiquee
Venue: Shanghai Chest, 2021

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2021

C3PO: Large-scale study of covert monitoring of C&C servers via over-permissioned protocol infiltration

Authors: Jonathan Fuller, Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Amit Sikder, Haichuan Xu, Berat Arik, Vivek Verma, Ehsan Asdar, Brendan Saltaformaggio
Venue: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021

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2021

Aegis+ a context-aware platform-independent security framework for smart home systems

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Digital Threats: Research and Practice, 2021

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2021

A survey on sensor-based threats and attacks to smart devices and applications

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Giuseppe Petracca, Hidayet Aksu, Trent Jaeger, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2021

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2021

A survey on security and privacy issues in modern healthcare systems: Attacks and defenses

Authors: Akm Iqtidar Newaz, Amit Kumar Sikder, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2021

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2020

Peek-a-boo: I see your smart home activities, even encrypted!

Authors: Abbas Acar, Hossein Fereidooni, Tigist Abera, Amit Kumar Sikder, Markus Miettinen, Hidayet Aksu, Mauro Conti, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2020

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2020

Kratos: Multi-user multi-device-aware access control system for the smart home

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z Berkay Celik, Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Patrick McDaniel, Engin Kirda, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2020

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2020

Heka: A novel intrusion detection system for attacks to personal medical devices

Authors: AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020

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2020

Adversarial attacks to machine learning-based smart healthcare systems

Authors: AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Nur Imtiazul Haque, Amit Kumar Sikder, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020

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2019

Healthguard: A machine learning-based security framework for smart healthcare systems

Authors: AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Amit Kumar Sikder, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Sixth international conference on social networks analysis, management and security (SNAMS), 2019

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2019

Aegis: A context-aware security framework for smart home systems

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Hidayet Aksu, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2019

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2019

A context-aware framework for detecting sensor-based threats on smart devices

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019

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2018

Sensitive information tracking in commodity IoT

Authors: Z Berkay Celik, Leonardo Babun, Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, Gang Tan, Patrick McDaniel, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2018

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2018

IoT-enabled smart lighting systems for smart cities

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, A Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, Mauro Conti
Venue: 2018 IEEE 8th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2018

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2017

6thSense: A context-aware sensor-based attack detector for smart devices

Authors: Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, A Selcuk Uluagac
Venue: USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2017

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