Peer-reviewed journals, conferences, submitted, and ongoing research work.
Journal • A*
Hussain Ahmad, Isuru Dharmadasa, Faheem Ullah, M. Ali Babar.
A Review on C3I Systems’ Security: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures.
ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.
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Partners: Defense Science and Technology Group; Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre; Cisco
Conference • A
Hussain Ahmad, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, Claudia Szabo.
Smart HPA: A Resource-Efficient Horizontal Pod Auto-scaler for Microservice Architectures.
ICSA 2024.
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Partners: The University of Melbourne; Monash University
Journal • A
Hussain Ahmad, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, Claudia Szabo.
Towards Resource-Efficient Reactive and Proactive Auto-scaling for Microservice Architectures.
Journal of Systems and Software, 2025.
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Partners: Monash University; Singapore Management University
Conference
Hussain Ahmad, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner, Claudia Szabo.
Resilient Auto-Scaling of Microservice Architectures with Efficient Resource Management.
APSEC 2025.
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Partners: Monash University; Singapore Management University
Journal
Hussain Ahmad, Faheem Ullah, Rehan Jafri.
A Survey on Immersive Cyber Situational Awareness Systems.
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2025.
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Partners: Honeywell (UK); Zayed University (UAE)
Journal
Raveen Jayalath, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Shuja Syed, Faheem Ullah.
Microservice Vulnerability Analysis: A Literature Review with Empirical Insights.
IEEE Access, 2024.
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Partners: CSIRO’s Data61; Migrova; SLB (Schlumberger, USA)
Conference
Farwa Abbas, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo.
SCALAR: Self-Calibrating Adaptive Latent Attention Representation Learning.
IEEE ICTAI 2025.
Partner: Imperial College London
Journal
Majid Abdulsatar, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Faheem Ullah.
Deep Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Microservice Architectures.
Cluster Computing, 2025.
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Partners: CSIRO’s Data61; Zayed University (UAE)
Journal
Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo.
RegimeFolio: A Regime-Aware ML System for Sectoral Portfolio Optimization.
IEEE Access, 2025.
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Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Journal
Shivansh Chopra, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Claudia Szabo.
ChatNVD: Advancing Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment with Large Language Models.
IEEE Access, 2025.
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Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Submitted
Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad, Kristen Moore, Mingyu Guo.
Co-Evolutionary Defence of Active Directory Attack Graphs via GNN-Approximated Dynamic Programming.
Expert Systems with Applications, 2025.
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Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Submitted
Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad, Ankit Jain, Nikhil Kumar Goel.
Machine Learning Driven Smishing Detection Framework for Mobile Security.
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2024.
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Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Submitted
Kefan Chen, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Claudia Szabo.
3S-Trader: A Multi-LLM Framework for Stock Selection.
FGCS, 2025.
Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Submitted
Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel.
The Future of AI: Exploring the Potential of Large Concept Models.
IEEE Access, 2025.
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Partner: CSIRO’s Data61
Working Paper
Farwa Abbas, Hussain Ahmad.
Robust Partial Least Squares Using Low and Sparse Decomposition.
2024.
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Partner: Imperial College London
Submitted
Faheem Ullah, Xiaohan Ye, Uswa Fatima, Zahid Akhtar, Yuxi Wu, Hussain Ahmad.
What Skills Do Cyber Security Professionals Need?
Neurocomputing, 2025.
Partners: Zayed University (UAE); SUNY Polytechnic Institute (USA)
Conference
Mubin Ul Haque, Isuru Dharmadasa, Zarrin Sworna, Roshan Rajapakse, Hussain Ahmad.
Exploring Sentiments of ChatGPT Early Adopters using Twitter Data.
2023.
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In Progress
Tanvi Jois, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo.
AI-Enabled Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Australian Bushfires.
2025.
In Progress
Phuong Quoc, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo.
Object-Based Visual SLAM for Urban Tram Navigation.
2025.
In Progress
Majdi Almistehi, Pemba Sherpa, Hussain Ahmad, Claudia Szabo.
A Survey on AI-Driven Cyber Deception Mechanisms for Enterprise Networks.
2025.