Publications

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

Partner: CSIRO’s Data61

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. [link]

Partner: CSIRO’s Data61

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. [link]

Partner: CSIRO’s Data61

Kefan Chen, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Claudia Szabo. 3S-Trader: A Multi-LLM Framework for Stock Selection. FGCS, 2025.

Partner: CSIRO’s Data61

Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel. The Future of AI: Exploring the Potential of Large Concept Models. IEEE Access, 2025. [link]

Partner: CSIRO’s Data61

Working Paper

Farwa Abbas, Hussain Ahmad. Robust Partial Least Squares Using Low and Sparse Decomposition. 2024. [link]

Partner: Imperial College London

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. [link]

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.