Thabet Kacem, Ph.D.

Thabet Kacem, Ph.D.

Email: thabet.kacem@udc.edu
Current Position: Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of the District of Columbia
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Research Interests

  • AI for Cybersecurity
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Trustworthy AI
  • AI-based Cyber Attack Detection
  • Resilient Smart Cities

Awards

  • Best Presentation Award: The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology (ICIIT 2023), Da Nang, Vietnam
  • Best Cyber Security Paper: Integrated Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance Conference (ICNS 2015), Herndon, VA

Professional Experience

  • Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of the District of Columbia (August 2022 – Present)
  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of the District of Columbia (August 2016 – August 2022)

Seelected Grants

  • HBCU-RISE: Enhancement of Research and Educational Infrastructure in Climate Change Impact Analysis for Critical Infrastructure Systems Protection Using Game Theory, Co-PI, NSF, $1M, 2022-2025.
  • HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Project: Workforce Development for a New Generation of Cyber Security Systems, PI, NSF, $388K, 2020-2024
  • Cyber Security Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI) Capacity Building: Co-PI, NSA, $299K, 2020-2022

Journal Publications

  • Thabet Kacem, Sai Gayatri Annamreddy, Mark Silvius, Paulo Costa, Todd Martin and Erik Blasch. "Information Fusion for Secure Drone Operations", Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE (submitted).
  • Taher Al-Shehari, Thabet Kacem, Muna Al-Razgan, Taha Alfakih and Mohamed Kadrie. "Leveraging Deep Learning and Class Imbalance Mitigation for Robust Insider Threat Detection", Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier (submitted).
  • Shimaa Ibrahim, Cagatay Catal and Thabet Kacem. "The use of multi-task learning in cybersecurity applications: a systematic literature review. Neural Computing and Applications", 2024, pp.1-27.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera and Paulo Costa. "ADS-Bsec: A Holistic Approach to secure ADS-B". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (IF: 8.2), October 2018.
  • Thabet Kacem, Alexandre Barreto, Duminda Wijesekera and Paulo Costa, "ADS-Bsec: A novel framework to secure ADS-B". ICT Express (IF: 5.4), 2017, pp.160-163
  • Farhan Siddiqui, Sherali Zeadally, Thabet Kacem and Scott Fowler, "Zero Con guration Networking: Implementation, Performance, and Security, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (IF: 4.15), Vol. 38, September 2012.

Conference Publications

  • Amir-Alipour-Fanid, Thabet Kacem, Monireh Dabaghchian, Massimiliano Albanese. "Utilizing Online Learning for Both Defense and DoS Attacks in CPS: A Repeated Game Approach", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), Cape Town, South Africa, (accepted).
  • Thabet Kacem and Sourou Tossou. "ADS-B Replay Attack Detection using Transformers", International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2024), Aiya Napa, Cyprus.
  • John Irungu, Hubert Smith, Jose Cruz, Thabet Kacem and Anteneh Girma. "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Detection Using CNN-Transfer Learning". The 2023 International Conference on Security and Information Technologies with AI, Internet Computing and Big-data Applications (SITAIBA 2023), Taipei, Taiwan (to appear soon).
  • Sourou Tossou, Miftahul Qorib, Thabet Kacem, "Anomaly Based Intrusion Detection System: A Deep Learning Approach". The 10th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC23), Doha, Qatar, October 2023.
  • Thabet Kacem. "UASChainSec: A Blockchain Based Framework for Secure 5G-Capable UAS Communication". The 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Air and Space Technologies (RAST2023), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2023.
  • Issa Abdoul Razac Djinko, Thabet Kacem, "Video-based Object Detection Using Voice Recognition and YoloV7", The Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications (Intelli2023),Barcelona, Spain, March 2023.
  • Sourou Tossou, Thabet Kacem, "Mobile Threat Detection System: A Deep Learning Approach". The 13th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2023), Cairo, Egypt, December 2023.
  • Thabet Kacem, "VANET-Sec: A Framework to Secure Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks using a Permissioned Blockchain". The 10th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC23), Doha, Qatar, October 2023.
  • John Irungu, Ste  Graham, Anteneh Girma and Thabet Kacem, "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for SQL Injection Attack Detection", The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology (ICIIT 2023), Da Nang, Vietnam, February 2023.
  • Thabet Kacem, Alexandre Barreto, Duminda Wijesekra and Paulo Costa, "A Key Management Module for Secure ADS-B", 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2022), Macau, China, September 2022.
  • Issa Abdoul Razac Djinko, Thabet Kacem and Anteneh Girma, "Blockchain-based Approach to thwart Replay Attacks targeting Remote Keyless Entry Systems", 2022 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October, 2022, pp. 1-6
  • Davies Aklamati, Basheerah Abdus-Shakur and Thabet Kacem, "Security Analysis of AWS-based Video Surveillance Systems", IEEE 7th International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET 2021), Istanbul, Turkey, November 2021.
  • Thabet Kacem, Aydin Kaya, Ali Seydi Keceli, Cagatay Catal, Duminda Wijesekera and Pualo Costa, "ADS-B Attack Classification Using Machine Learning Techniques", 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV21), Workshop on Security Challenges in Intelligent Transportation Systems (SCITS) Workshop, Nagoya, Japan, September 2021.
  • Thabet Kacem, Alexandre Barreto Duminda Wijesekera, and Paulo Costa."Extending ADS-B for Mixed Urban Air Traffic". 37th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2018), London, UK, October 2018.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera and Paulo Costa, "Key Distribution Scheme for Aircraft Equipped with Secure ADS-B IN", 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2017), Yokohama, Japan, October 2017.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa and Alexandre Barreto, "Secure ADS-B Framework 'ADS-Bsec' ", 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2016.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa and Alexandre Barreto, "An ADS-B Intrusion Detection System", The 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-16), Tianjin, China, August 2016.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa, Marcio Monteiro, Alexandre Barreto and Jeronymo Carvalho, "Secure ADS-B Design & Evaluation", IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2015), Yokohama, Japan, November 2015.
  • Thabet Kacem, Jeronymo Carvalho, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa, Marcio Monteiro and Alexandre Barreto, "Risk-adaptive Engine for Secure ADS-B Broadcasts", SAE 2015 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition (SAE AeroTech 2015), Seattle, WA, September 2015.
  • Thabet Kacem, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa and Alexandre Barreto, "Security Requirements Analysis of ADS-B Networks", Semantic Technology For Intelligence, Defense and Security Conference (STIDS 2014), Fairfax, VA, November 2014.
  • Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Angelos Stavrou. "Framework for Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud". In proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
  • Riyadh Mahmood, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Nariman Mirzaei, Sam Malek, and Angelos Stavrou. "Whitebox Approach for Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud". In proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.

Service & Leadership

  • General Chair, 11th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC’24), Washington, DC
  • IEEE Senior Member, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Member
  • Member of UDC SEAS/CSIT ABET Committee, Graduate Curriculum Committee and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.