publications

2026

1. VehicleSec

   Short: Is Your ECU Really Yours?

   Abbas Ali and Hafiz Malik

   In 4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 26), Aug 2026

   Awarded Abs Bib HTML PDF

   

   Artifact Evaluated: Available, Functional, Reproduced

   A hardware fingerprinting framework for authenticating embedded devices in vehicular networks. The approach analyses the analog characteristics of digital switching behaviour to detect compromised or counterfeit devices, extracting 211 waveform features and applying Random Forest and stacked ensemble methods to achieve 99.5% accuracy under controlled conditions and 100% device type classification across the tested hardware.

   @inproceedings{ali2026ecu,
     title = {Short: Is Your ECU Really Yours?},
     author = {Ali, Abbas and Malik, Hafiz},
     booktitle = {4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 26)},
     publisher = {USENIX Association},
     address = {Baltimore, MD},
     year = {2026},
     month = aug,
     pages = {359--370},
     isbn = {978-1-939133-56-4},
   }

2. EAI SmartSP

   Real-Time Authentication of Embedded Hardware

   Hasan Arif, Abbas Ali, Saad Kiyani, and 1 more author

   In 4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP), 2026

   Accepted

   Bib

   @inproceedings{arif2026realtime,
     title = {Real-Time Authentication of Embedded Hardware},
     author = {Arif, Hasan and Ali, Abbas and Kiyani, Saad and Malik, Hafiz},
     booktitle = {4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP)},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted}
   }

2025

1. IEEE CSR

   A Lightweight IDS Framework Using FPGA-Based Hardware Fingerprinting on Zynq SoC

   Abdul Waheed Mohammed, Abbas Ali, Hasan Arif, and 2 more authors

   In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), Aug 2025

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   @inproceedings{mohammed2025lightweight,
     title = {A Lightweight IDS Framework Using FPGA-Based Hardware Fingerprinting on Zynq SoC},
     author = {Mohammed, Abdul Waheed and Ali, Abbas and Arif, Hasan and Mohammed, Fazal Rahaman Pasha and Malik, Hafiz},
     booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)},
     address = {Chania, Greece},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2025},
     month = aug,
     pages = {544--549},
     doi = {10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130113},
   }

2024

1. AEJ

   Speed vs. efficiency: A framework for high-frequency trading algorithms on FPGA using Zynq SoC platform

   Abbas Ali, Abdullah Shah, Azaz Hassan Khan, and 5 more authors

   Alexandria Engineering Journal, Jun 2024

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   @article{ali2024speed,
     title = {Speed vs. efficiency: A framework for high-frequency trading algorithms on FPGA using Zynq SoC platform},
     author = {Ali, Abbas and Shah, Abdullah and Khan, Azaz Hassan and Sharif, Malik Umar and Zahid, Zaka Ullah and Shahid, Rabia and Jan, Tariqullah and Zafar, Mohammad Haseeb},
     journal = {Alexandria Engineering Journal},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     volume = {96},
     pages = {1--14},
     year = {2024},
     month = jun,
     issn = {1110-0168},
     doi = {10.1016/j.aej.2024.03.064},
   }

2023

1. PLOS ONE

   A performance comparison of machine learning models for stock market prediction with novel investment strategy

   Azaz Hassan Khan, Abdullah Shah, Abbas Ali, and 5 more authors

   PLOS ONE, Sep 2023

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   @article{khan2023performance,
     title = {A performance comparison of machine learning models for stock market prediction with novel investment strategy},
     author = {Khan, Azaz Hassan and Shah, Abdullah and Ali, Abbas and Shahid, Rabia and Zahid, Zaka Ullah and Sharif, Malik Umar and Jan, Tariqullah and Zafar, Mohammad Haseeb},
     journal = {PLOS ONE},
     publisher = {Public Library of Science},
     volume = {18},
     number = {9},
     pages = {e0286362},
     year = {2023},
     month = sep,
     issn = {1932-6203},
     doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0286362},
   }