Some of my selected publications are shared here. Please check Google Scholar to get the whole list of publications.

Patents

• Hassanzadeh Amin, MD Sharif Ullah, Anup Nayak, “Process Risk Calculation Based on the Hardness of Attack Paths”, US Patent, US US11831675 B2, November 28, 2023.
• Hassanzadeh Amin, MD Sharif Ullah, Anup Nayak, “Generating Attack Graphs in Agile Security Platforms”, US Patent, US 11277432 B2, March 15, 2022.

Conference and Journals

• Tahera, Mohoshin Ara, Sabbir Rahman, Shuvalaxmi Dass, Sharif Ullah, and Mahmoud Abouyessef. “BlocksecRT-DETR: Decentralized Privacy-Preserving and Token-Efficient Federated Transformer Learning for Secure Real-Time Object Detection in ITS.” IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Spring), IEEE, 2026
• Hasan, Mahmudul, Sharif Ullah, and Sachin Shetty. “Quantum-Enhanced Federated Learning via QAOA Feature and Gate Selection with Skew-Symmetric Lipschitz Dynamics.” In 2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2026.
• Amin, Al, Kamrul Hasan, Liang Hong, and Sharif Ullah. “Privacy-Preserving Federated Vision Transformer Learning Leveraging Lightweight Homomorphic Encryption in Medical AI.” In 2026 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 622-628. IEEE, 2026.
• Haque, Ekramul, Kamrul Hasan, Imtiaz Ahmed, Sharif Ullah, Tariqul Islam, and Mir Mehedi A. Pritom. “Adaptive Intrusion Detection with PPO and Zero Trust Continuous Verification.” In SoutheastCon 2025, pp. 868-873. IEEE, 2025.
• Y. Nagayoshi, S. Ullah, B. Chen, M. I. Ibrahem, M. M. Fouda and M. Abouyoussef, “Privacy-Preserving Secure Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems,” 2025 1st International Conference on Secure IoT, Assured and Trusted Computing (SATC), Dayton, OH, USA, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SATC65530.2025.11136998.
• Ullah, Sharif, Sachin Shetty, Abdul Rahman, Amin Hass, and Xiaoyong Yuan. “TTPatternMiner: Automated Learning and Characterization of Attack Pattern from Malicious Cyber Campaign.” In MILCOM 2024-2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 405-411. IEEE, 2024.
• Sazzed, Salim, and Sharif Ullah. “Unmasking Public Perception: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Social Media Discourse on US Illegal Immigration.” In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), pp. 7151-7160. IEEE, 2024.
• Sazzed, Salim, and Sharif Ullah. “Enhancing efficiency and privacy in memory-based malware classification through feature selection.” In 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pp. 550-557. IEEE, 2023.
• Hasan, Kamrul and Shetty, Sachin and Ullah, Md. Sharif and Hassanzadeh, Amin and Islam, Tariqul, “Criticality based Optimal Cyber Defense Remediation in Energy Delivery Systems.” EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 8 (28). e5. ISSN 2032-9393, 2021.
• Ullah, Sharif, Sachin Shelly, Amin Hassanzadeh, Anup Nayak, and Kamrul Hasan. “On the effectiveness of intrusion response systems against persistent threats.” In 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 415-421. IEEE, 2020.
• Hasan, Kamrul, Sachin Shetty, Sharif Ullah, Amin Hassanzadeh, and Ethan Hadar. “Towards optimal cyber defense remediation in energy delivery systems.” In 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2019.
• Ullah, Sharif, Sachin Shetty, Anup Nayak, Amin Hassanzadeh, and Kamrul Hasan, “Cyber Threat Analysis Based on Characterizing Adversarial Behavior for Energy Delivery System.” In International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems, pp. 146-160. Springer, Cham, 2019.
• Hasan, Kamrul, Sachin Shetty, Amin Hassanzadeh, and Sharif Ullah. “Towards optimal cyber defense remediation in cyber physical systems by balancing operational resilience and strategic risk.” In MILCOM 2019-2019 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2019.
• Ullah, Sharif, Sachin Shetty, and Amin Hassanzadeh. ”Towards modeling attacker’s opportunity for improving cyber resilience in energy delivery systems.” In 2018 Resilience Week (RWS), pp. 100-107. IEEE, 2018.
• Glandon, Alexander, Sharif Ullah, Lasitha Vidyaratne, Mahbubul Alam, C. Xin, and Khan M. Iftekharuddin. ”Prediction of spatial spectrum in cognitive radio using cellular simultaneous recurrent networks.” In 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2018.
• Xin, ChunSheng, Sharif Ullah, Min Song, Zhao Wu, Qiong Gu, and Huanqing Cui. ”Throughput oriented lightweight near-optimal rendezvous algorithm for cognitive radio networks.” Computer Networks 137 (2018): 49-60.