A Novel Approach for Android Malware Detection and Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks. - Ahmed Lekssays; Bouchaib Falah; Sameer Abufardeh (ICSOFT, 2020)

LiMNet: Early-Stage Detection of IoT Botnets with Lightweight Memory Networks. - Lodovico Giaretta; Ahmed Lekssays; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001; Sarunas Girdzijauskas (ESORICS (1), 2021)

PAutoBotCatcher: A blockchain-based privacy-preserving botnet detector for Internet of Things. - Ahmed Lekssays; Luca Landa; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (Comput. Networks, 2021)

MalRec: A Blockchain-based Malware Recovery Framework for Internet of Things. - Ahmed Lekssays; Giorgia Sirigu; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (ARES, 2022)

Early-Stage Ransomware Detection Based on Pre-attack Internal API Calls. - Filippo Coglio; Ahmed Lekssays; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (AINA (2), 2023)

Privacy-preserving Decentralized Learning of Knowledge Graph Embeddings. - Anh-Tu Hoang; Ahmed Lekssays; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (EDBT/ICDT Workshops, 2023)

Private, Fair and Secure Collaborative Learning Framework for Human Activity Recognition. - Debaditya Roy; Ahmed Lekssays; Sarunas Girdzijauskas; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct, 2023)

MalCon: A blockchain-based malware containment framework for Internet of Things. - Ahmed Lekssays; Barbara Carminati; Elena Ferrari 001 (Comput. Networks, 2023)

Semantic Ranking for Automated Adversarial Technique Annotation in Security Text. - Udesh Kumarasinghe; Ahmed Lekssays; Husrev Taha Sencar; Sabri Boughorbel; Charitha Elvitigala; Preslav Nakov (AsiaCCS, 2024)

TechniqueRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Adversarial Technique Annotation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Text. - Ahmed Lekssays; Utsav Shukla; Husrev Taha Sencar; Md. Rizwan Parvez (ACL (Findings), 2025)

StructTransform: A Scalable Attack Surface for Safety-Aligned Large Language Models. - Shehel Yoosuf; Temoor Ali; Ahmed Lekssays; Mashael AlSabah; Issa Khalil (CoRR, 2025)

From Text to Actionable Intelligence: Automating STIX Entity and Relationship Extraction. - Ahmed Lekssays; Husrev Taha Sencar; Ting Yu 001 (CoRR, 2025)

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models. - Ahmed Lekssays; Hamza Mouhcine; Khang Tran; Ting Yu 001; Issa Khalil (CoRR, 2025)