Elias Bou-Harb
Associate Professor
3272Q Patrick F Taylor Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Louisiana State University
225.578.5140
ebouharb@lsu.edu
Educational Background
Postdoctoral Training in empirical cyber security, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada.
MASc. in Information Systems Security, Concordia University, Canada.
BASc. in Computer Science, Notre Dame University, Lebanon.
Research Interests
Operational cyber security
Cyber forensics
Critical infrastructure security
Empirical Data analytics,
Digital investigation
Network Security
Network Management
Teaching Responsibilities
CSC 2362: Intro to Cybersecurity and Defense
Selected Publications
“ChargePrint: A Framework for Internet-Scale Discovery and Security Analysis of EV Charging Management Systems.” with T. Nasr, S. Torabi, C. Fachkha, and C. Assi, In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2023
“EVOLIoT: A Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework for Detecting and Characterizing
Evolving IoT Malware Variants,” with M. Dib, S. Torabi, N. Bouguila, C. Assi, In Proceedings
of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS),
2022, pp. 452-466.“INC: In-Network Classification of Botnet Propagation at Line Rate.”
with K. Friday, E. Kfoury, J. Crichigno, In European Symposium on Research in Computer
Security (ESORICS), 2022, pp. 551-569, Springer, Cham.
“Interpretable federated transformer log learning for cloud threat forensics.” with
G. De La Torre Parra, L. Selvera, J. Khoury, H. Irzarry, P. Rad, In Proceedings of
the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2022.
“P4DDPI: Securing P4-Programmable Data Plane Networks via DNS Deep Packet Inspection,”
with A. AlSabeh, E. Kfoury, J. Crichigno, In Proceedings of the 2022 Network and Distributed
System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2022, 1ś7.
“A Security Assessment of HTTP/2 Usage in 5G Service Based Architecture.” with N.
Wehbe, H.A., Alameddine, M. Pourzandi, C. Assi, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2022,
pp. 1-7.
“Sanitizing the iot cyber security posture: An operational cti feed backed up by internet
measurements,” with M.S. Pour, and D. Watson, In 2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021, pp. 497-506, IEEE.
“HoneyComb: A Darknet-Centric Proactive Deception Technique For Curating IoT Malware
Forensic Artifacts,” with M.S. Pour, J. Khoury, In NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network
Operations and Management Symposium, 2022, pp. 1-9. IEEE.
“On Ransomware Family Attribution Using Pre-Attack Paranoia Activities,” with R.M.A.
Molina, S. Torabi, K. Sarieddine, N. Bouguila, C. Assi, IEEE Transactions on Network
and Service Management, Vol. 19, No.1, 2021, pp.19-36.
“Demystifying IoT security: An exhaustive survey on IoT vulnerabilities and a first
empirical look on Internet-scale IoT exploitations,” with N. Neshenko, J. Crichigno,
J. Kaddoum, G. Kaddoum, N. Ghani IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 21,
No. 3, 2019, pp.2702-2733.
“Inferring and Investigating IoT-Generated Scanning Campaigns Targeting a Large Network
Telescope,” with S. Torabi, C. Assi, E.M.B. Karbab, A. Boukhtouta and M. Debbabi,
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
“A Collaborative Security Framework for Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks,”
with C. Miranda, G. Kaddoum, S. Garg and K. Kaur, IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, Vol. 15, pp. 2602-2615.
“On Data-Driven Curation, Learning, and Analysis for Inferring Evolving Internet-of-Things
(I0T) Botnets in the Wild,” with M. S. Pour, A. Mangino, K. Friday, M. Rathbun and
F. Iqbal, Computers and Security, Vol. 91, p. 101707.
“A Big Data-Enabled Consolidated Framework for Energy Efficient Software Defined Data
Centers in IoT Setups,” with Kuljeet Kaur, Sahil Garg, Georges Kaddoum and Kim-Kwang
Raymond Choo, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019, pp. 99:1-1, DOI:10.1109/TII.2019.2939573.
“Theoretic Derivations of Scan Detection Operating on Darknet Traffic,” with Morteza
Safaei Pour, Computer Communications, 2019, DOI:10.1016/j.comcom.2019.08.014.
“Decentralized Distribution of PCP Mappings over Blockchain for End-to-End Secure
Direct Communications,” with Elie F. Kfoury, Jose Gomez, Jorge Crichigno and David
Khoury, IEEE Access, 2019, PP(99), DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2934049.
“A Review of Recent Advances and Security Challenges in Emerging E-Enabled Aircraft
Systems,” with Farooq Shaikh, Mohamad Rahouti, Nasir Ghani, Kaiqi Xiong and Jamal
Haque, IEEE Access, 2019, PP(99), DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2916617.
“Demystifying IoT Security: An Exhaustive Survey on IoT Vulnerabilities and a First
Empirical Look on Internet-scale IoT Exploitations,” with Nataliia Neshenko, Jorge
Crichigno, Georges Kaddoum and Nasir Ghani, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials,
2019.
Awards and Honors
UT System-wide Distinguished Research Award. 2023. Texas.
University-wide Service Award for Center Leadership, UTSA (2023)
Sole Recipient of all UTSA’s Faculty Research Award (2021/2022)
Named the recipient of UTSA College of Business Col. Jean Piccione and Lt. Col. Philip
Piccione Endowed Faculty Award for Research Excellence (2020)
Elevated to IEEE Senior Member (2020)
Sole Recipient of the Junior, Faculty-wide, Research Award, FAU (2019)
Six Best Conference Research Paper Awards (2015-2023)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral
Fellowship (PDF): Top 1% of all Canadian Computer Science Ph.D. Students (2016)
Fonds de recherche du Québec - Fellowship, Ranked 1st in the province of Quebec (2015).