KSIS Lab
Publications
Selected publications from KSIS Lab faculty and collaborators in secure computing, computer architecture, cybersecurity, cryptography, machine learning, hardware acceleration, and intelligent systems.
Publications are organized by research area. Full venue, year, and link metadata is being compiled and will be added as it is confirmed.
Hardware Acceleration
Competition-style Sorting Networks (CSN): A Framework for Hardware-based Sorting Operations
A. Fairouz, J. Aljuraidan, A. Mohammed
IEEE Transactions on Computers (September 2025)
TinyBERT for Branch Prediction in Modern Microprocessors
A. AlAjmi, B. AlSarraf, Z. Abualhassan, A. Fairouz, I. Ahmad
Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Nature, vol. 37, pp. 1771–1782 (2024)
Hardware Acceleration of Hash Operations in Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, S. Fedorov, S. P. Khatri
IEEE Transactions on Computers (July 2020)
An FPGA-based Coprocessor for Hash Unit Acceleration
A. Fairouz, S. P. Khatri
IEEE 35th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2017)
PAU: A Programmable Arithmetic Unit for Use in Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, A. Douglass, K. Bharathi, S. P. Khatri
IEEE 37th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2019), Abu Dhabi, UAE
POSIT vs. Floating Point in Implementing IIR Notch Filter by Enhancing Radix-4 Modified Booth Multiplier
A. Esmaeel, S. Abed, B. Mohd, A. Fairouz
Electronics, vol. 11, no. 163 (2022)
An Efficient Unified Memory Security Model for CXL Memory-Expanded GPU Systems
H. Lee, R. Abdullah, H. Zhou, A. Fairouz, A. Awad
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Compute Express Link (CXL)
Chiplet-Knight: Enabling High-Performance Data Security in Shrunk Trusted Computing Base
R. Abdullah, H. Zhou, A. Fairouz, A. Awad
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2026), Raleigh, NC, USA, June 27–July 1
Competition Sort Algorithm (CSA): A Novel Hardware-based Sorting Algorithm for Sorting Networks
A. Fairouz, J. Al-Juraidan
First Scientific Research Conference, Kuwait University, March 2022
Simulation of Nanofluids in Computer Cooling Systems
O. Al-Jowaiser, A. Bahman, N. Ali, Y. Malallah, A. Fairouz
Scientific Poster Day, Kuwait University, March 2021
Comparing Leakage Reduction Techniques for an Asynchronous NoC Router
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, A. Elshenawy, S. P. Khatri
Journal of Low Power Electronics, vol. 14, no. 13, pp. 414–427 (2018)
Design of a Hardware Hash Unit for use in Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, S. P. Khatri
Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE 2017)
A Comparison of Low Standby Power Techniques for an Asynchronous NoC Router
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, A. Elshenawy, S. P. Khatri
Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE 2017)
Circuit Level Design of a Hardware Hash Unit for use in Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, S. P. Khatri
ACM 27th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2017)
A Novel Hardware Hash Unit Design for Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, S. P. Khatri
IEEE 34th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2016), pp. 412–415
Data Compression
A Plain-text Incremental Compression (PIC) Technique with Fast Lookup Ability
K. Bharathi, H. Kumar, A. Fairouz, A. Al Kawam, S. P. Khatri
IEEE 36th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2018), pp. 389–396
Design and Evaluation of a Lightweight Plain-text Incremental Compression Technique
A. Fairouz
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Some Recipes Can Do More Than Spoil Your Appetite: Analyzing the Security and Privacy Risks of IFTTT Recipes
M. Surbatovich, J. Aljuraidan, L. Bauer, A. Das, L. Jia
WWW 2017 — 26th International World Wide Web Conference
Introducing Reputation Systems to the Economics of Outsourcing Computations to Rational Workers
J. Aljuraidan, L. Bauer, M. K. Reiter, M. Beckerle
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2016), Springer-Verlag
Run-Time Enforcement of Information-Flow Properties on Android
L. Jia, J. Aljuraidan, E. Fragkaki, L. Bauer, M. Stroucken, K. Fukushima, S. Kiyomoto, Y. Miyake
ESORICS 2013, Springer LNCS (2013)
Incremental Deployment of Hybrid IP/SDN Network with Optimized Traffic Engineering
A. Kelkawi, A. Mohammed, A. Alyatama
IEEE NFV-SDN 2020, Leganés-Madrid, Spain, pp. 57–63
Intelligent Systems
Vulnerability of Deep Forests to Adversarial Attacks
Z. T. M. Ali, A. Mohammed, I. Ahmad
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2024)
Enhancing Adversarial Robustness with Randomized Interlayer Processing
A. Mohammed, Z. T. M. Ali, I. Ahmad
Expert Systems with Applications (2024)
Evaluating Adversarial Robustness of Secret Key-Based Defenses
Z. T. M. Ali, A. Mohammed, I. Ahmad
IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 34872–34882 (2022)
Deep Forest Model for Diagnosing COVID-19 from Routine Blood Tests
M. AlJame, A. Imtiaz, I. Ahmad, A. Mohammed
Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 16682 (2021)
Data Poisoning Attacks in Multi-party Learning
S. Mahloujifar, M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed
ICML 2019 (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 97)
Ensemble Learning Model for Diagnosing COVID-19 from Routine Blood Tests
M. AlJame, I. Ahmad, A. Imtiaz, A. Mohammed
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, vol. 21, p. 100449 (2020)
An Empirical Eye-Tracking Study of Cross-Lingual Program Comprehension and Debugging
A. Mohammed, R. Albaghli, H. Alrushood, F. Ghaddar
Journal of Systems & Software (2025, under review)
A Q-Learning-Based Hybrid Metaheuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem
A. Mohammed, R. Kebloui, Y. Alfezai
Journal of Engineering Research (2025, under review)
An Enhanced Distributed Deadlock Detection and Recovery in Process Networks
M. Al-Shayeji, A. Fairouz, Samrajesh
International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 298–302 (2012)
Alternative Flow Diagram for Supply Chain: Application to Risks
S. Al-Fedaghi, A. Fairouz
Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 111–121 (2011)
Cryptography
Fair and Privacy-Respecting Bitcoin Payments for Smart Grid Data
T. Dimitriou, A. Mohammed
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 10401–10417 (2020)
Limits on the Power of Garbling Techniques for Public-Key Encryption
S. Garg, M. Hajiabadi, M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed
CRYPTO 2018, Springer LNCS, vol. 10993, pp. 335–364
Lower Bounds on Obfuscation from All-or-Nothing Encryption Primitives
S. Garg, M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed
CRYPTO 2017, Springer LNCS, vol. 10401, pp. 661–695
When Does Functional Encryption Imply Obfuscation?
S. Garg, M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed
TCC 2017 — Theory of Cryptography Conference, Springer LNCS, vol. 10677, pp. 82–115
On the Power of Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption
M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed
EUROCRYPT 2016 — Advances in Cryptology, Springer LNCS, vol. 9666, pp. 243–272
On the Impossibility of Virtual Black-Box Obfuscation in Idealized Models
M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed, S. Nematihaji
TCC 2016 — Theory of Cryptography Conference, Springer LNCS, vol. 9562, pp. 18–48
Lower Bounds on Assumptions Behind Indistinguishability Obfuscation
M. Mahmoody, A. Mohammed, S. Nematihaji, R. Pass, A. Shelat
TCC 2016 — Theory of Cryptography Conference, Springer LNCS, vol. 9562, pp. 49–66
Quantum Computing
Quantum Federated Learning for Adaptive Intrusion Detection Systems in Software-Defined Networks
Y. Alfezai, A. Mohammed
ISNCC 2025 — International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications
Publicly Verifiable Quantum Computation with Classical Verifiers
A. Mohammed, A. Abadi
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2025)
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