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Advisor/Supervisor |
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Research Interests |
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- Malware Analysis
- Network Security
- Intrusion Detection
- Network Traffic Monitoring
- Network Performance Measurement and Modeling
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M.S. Thesis |
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Publications |
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- Syed Ali Khayam, Ayesha Binte Ashfaq and Hayder Radha, " Joint Network-Host based Malware Detection using Information- Theoretic Tools," Springer Journal in Computer Virology (JCV), January 2010.
- Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, Mobin Javed, Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, " An Information-Theoretic Combining Method for Multi-Classifier Anomaly Detection Systems," International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2010.
- Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, Muhammad Qasim Ali and Syed Ali Khayam, "Accuracy Improving Guidelines for Network Anomaly Detection Systems," Springer Journal in Computer Virology (JCV), September 2009, DOI 10.1007/s11416-009-0133-5.
- Mobin Javed, Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, M. Zubair Shafiq and Syed Ali Khayam, "On the Inefficient Use of Entropy for Anomaly Detection," Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2009.
- Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, Maria Joseph Robert, Asma Mumtaz, Muhammad Qasim Ali, Ali Sajjad and Syed Ali Khayam, "A Comparative Analysis of Anomaly Detectors under Portscan Attacks," Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2008.
- Ayesha Binte Ashfaq and Syed Ali Khayam, "Performance Comparison of Four Anomaly Detectors in Detecting Self-Propagating Malware on Endpoints," IEEE International Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies, April 2008.
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Professional Services |
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- Served on the review panel of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008
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Experience |
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- Research Associate: WiSNet Lab, NUST SEECS, ISB, PK (Feb 2008 - Feb 2010)
- Consultant: Wichorus, Silicon Valley, CA, USA
- Software Engineer: NetSol Technologies - NDD, ISB, PK (July 2006 to December 2006)
- Software Developer: GulfNet, ISB, PK (July 2005 to December 2005)
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Honors/Awards: |
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Recipient of President's Gold medal in MS-IT (Computer Networks) at NUST-SEECS for the year 2008.
- Recipient of the National Youth Award for the year 2008 in the "Computer Science and Information Technology" category (http://www.moya.gov.pk/),(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Awards)
- Recipient of the Mobility Scholarship by the Universite' de Cergy-Pontoise to attend the workshop on Quantum Statistical Physics & Information Theory at Cergy, France, April 2008.
- Recipient of Student Attendance Grant to attend RAID at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Sept 2008.
- NCR National IT Excellence Award won for the year 2006, in the IT-STUDENT category (http://www.pseb.org.pk/page.php?nid=11)
- Recipient of NUST Undergraduate Merit Scholarships (semesters I - VIII)
- Recipient of NUST Graduate Merit Scholarships (semesters I - VI)
- Won the Best Paper Award at IADC2006, SanDiego, California.
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July, 2010