NetML scholarship
Ideas tested, shared, and built upon.
Our publications span network measurement, device fingerprinting, optimization, explainable AI, and emerging applications of LLMs in cybersecurity.
Publication record
Research from the lab.
Student coauthors are underlined. Paper titles link to a source when one is available.
Conference and workshop papers
Peer-reviewed papers accepted by conference and workshop committees.
- 2026Workshop paper · Accepted
JMAP: Joint Multi-Document Attention with Clustering-Based Adaptive Context Pruning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jasurbek Ibragimov and Ahmet Aksoy
Workshop on Long Context Foundation Models (LCFM) @ NeurIPS 2026 · Atlanta, GA
- 2026Workshop paper
An LLM-Driven Adaptive Honeypot Testbed for Dynamic Intrusion Engagement
Khursaid Ansari, Yaman Shrestha, and Ahmet Aksoy
Workshop on Intelligent and Secure Computing (ISC) @ ACNS 2026 · Stony Brook, NY
- 2026Workshop paper
Automated Passive OS Fingerprinting with Genetic Algorithms: Multi-Protocol Analysis and Adversarial Considerations
Ahmet Aksoy
Workshop on Intelligent and Secure Computing (ISC) @ ACNS 2026 · Stony Brook, NY
- 2025Conference paper
Explainable AI-Driven Exploration of Employee Attrition Mechanisms
Feyza Aydogan, Beyza Aydogan, Gorkem Kar, Cagatay Catal, and Ahmet Aksoy
IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI) 2025 · Mexico City, Mexico
- 2025Workshop paper
Automated IoT Fingerprinting with LLMs: Harnessing Explainable AI and Artificial Bee Colony Optimization
Yaman Shrestha, Khursaid Ansari, and Ahmet Aksoy
IEEE/ACM SafeThings Workshop @ IEEE S&P 2025 · San Francisco, CA
- 2025Conference paper
Automated Host Identification Using SSL/TLS Traffic with SHAP and Artificial Bee Colony
Ahmet Aksoy, Sundeep Varma, Khursaid Ansari, and Yaman Shrestha
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2025 · Santa Clara, CA
- 2024Conference paper
AI-Driven Genetic Algorithms for Enhanced Numeric Feature Quantization in IoT Device Fingerprinting for Threat Detection
Ahmet Aksoy and Sundeep Varma
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) 2024 · Washington, DC
- 2024Conference paper
Comparative Analysis of Feature Selection Algorithms for Automated IoT Device Fingerprinting
Ahmet Aksoy, Sundeep Varma, Ganesha Moorthy, Enya Pan, and Gorkem Kar
10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) 2024 · Rome, Italy
- 2021Workshop paper
Automated Fast-flux Detection using Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithms
Sachin Rana and Ahmet Aksoy
BigSecurity Workshop @ IEEE INFOCOM 2021 · Virtual
- 2019Conference paper
Automated IoT Device Identification from Network Traffic
Ahmet Aksoy and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019 · Shanghai, China
- 2017Conference paper
Operating System Fingerprinting via Automated Network Traffic Analysis
Ahmet Aksoy, Sushil Louis, and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2017 · Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain
- 2016Workshop paper
Operating System Classification Performance of TCP/IP Protocol Headers
Ahmet Aksoy and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
10th IEEE Workshop on Network Measurements (WNM) @ IEEE LCN 2016 · Dubai, UAE
- 2016Conference paper
SILEA: a System for Inductive LEArning
Ahmet Aksoy and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
7th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) 2016 · Chalkidiki, Greece · Explore SILEA
Journal articles
Peer-reviewed journal publications.
- 2024Journal article
Automated Network Incident Identification through Genetic Algorithm-Driven Feature Selection
Ahmet Aksoy, Luis Valle, and Gorkem Kar
Electronics · Machine Learning and Cybersecurity—Trends and Future Challenges
- 2024Journal article
Analytical Subnetwork and IP Alias Resolution for Network Tomography using Path Traces
Ahmet Aksoy
Electronics · Computing-Based Network Innovations: Architecture, Theory, and Applications
- 2016Journal article
User Characterization for Online Social Networks
Tayfun Tuna, Esra Akbas, Ahmet Aksoy, M. Abdullah Canbaz, Umit Karabiyik, Bilal Gonen, and Ramazan Aygun
Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
- 2016Journal article
A Survey of Social Network Forensics
Umit Karabiyik, M. Abdullah Canbaz, Ahmet Aksoy, Tayfun Tuna, Esra Akbas, Bilal Gonen, and Ramazan Aygun
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL)
Presentations
Short talks, abstracts, and research presentations.
- 2022Talk
Automated Network Traffic Fingerprinting using Genetic Algorithms-driven Features
Ahmet Aksoy
UCM Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Talks · Warrensburg, MO · February 2
- 2022Talk
Network Traffic Fingerprinting using Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computing
Ahmet Aksoy
ACM Essentials Workshop · Warrensburg, MO · February 10
- 2019Short talk
Network Traffic Fingerprinting using Machine Learning
Ahmet Aksoy and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · San Francisco, CA
- 2018Abstract
Comprehensive Mapping of Autonomous Systems
M. Abdullah Canbaz, Khalid Bakhshaliyev, Ahmet Aksoy, and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
ACM Internet Measurement Conference · Boston, MA
- 2018Poster
Operating System Fingerprinting via Automated Network Traffic Analysis
Ahmet Aksoy, Sushil Louis, and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
Nevada NSF EPSCoR Graduate Student Poster Session · Reno, NV
- 2016Work in progress
Operating System Fingerprinting using Machine Learning
Ahmet Aksoy and Mehmet Hadi Gunes
ACM Internet Measurement Conference · Santa Monica, CA