Year: 2017

Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek.
Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), November 2017 (Accepted) (ICSE 2018 journal-first)

Hurray!!! My paper got accepted in the premier software engineering conference, ICSE 2018!

Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek.
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Effects of Code Obfuscations on Android Apps and Anti-Malware Products.
International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. (acceptance rate 20%)

Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware
Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), November 2017 (Accepted).

Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Negar Ghorbani and Sam Malek. Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications. European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), September 2017, Paderborn, Germany. [Paper]

On March 22, 2017, I enjoyed sharing my research with the OC I.E.E.E CyberSecurity community. Its an hour presentation followed by 30 minutes Q&A.

More information about the event can be found here.

My talk has been mentioned in this I.E.E.E. monthly newsletter.

Don’t miss my tech talk at OC I.E.E.E to the CyberSecurity Community on March 22. For more information visit: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44411

I thank Allah that on March 9, 2017, I passed my candidacy exam and became a PhD candidate :)-

I presented DELDroid in my candidacy exam. The exam took an hour and 40 minutes followed by a private discussion by my committee members.

DELDroid is an automated system for determination and enforcement of least-privilege architecture in Android.

Thanks to my committee members:

1- Prof. Sam Malek (Advisor)

2- Prof. Cristina Lopes

3- Prof. James A. Jones

4- Prof. Alfred Kobsa

5- Prof. Ardalan Amiri Sani

Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek. DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. International Conference of Software Architecture (ICSA 2017), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2017. (22% acceptance rate)