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Ali Ghorbani

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Ali Ghorbani

Professor

Faculty of Computer Science

University of New Brunswick

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

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91 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 68 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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385

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29,001

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Tier Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Chair; Director of

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Research

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Latest papers

Cybersecurity in the quantum era: Assessing the impact of quantum computing on infrastructure
Computers & Security · 2026 · senior author
Blockchain feature extraction and behavioral profiling for illicit transaction analysis
Forensic Science International Digital Investigation · 2026 · senior author
Dual explanations via subgraph matching for malware detection
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2026 · senior author

All 385 publications

From the 150 most recent of 385 publications.

Cybersecurity in the quantum era: Assessing the impact of quantum computing on infrastructure

Yaser Baseri, Vikas Chouhan, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Computers & Security202616 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2026.104917

Blockchain feature extraction and behavioral profiling for illicit transaction analysis

Mahdi Daghmehchi Firoozjaei, MinChang Kim, Hyoungshick Kim, Arash Habibi Lashkari, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Forensic Science International Digital Investigation2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2026.302197

Dual explanations via subgraph matching for malware detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Griffin Higgins, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2026.115049

CICEV2025: Dataset and simulator for scalable attack detection with multi-GPU and skip-factor optimization

Yoonjib Kim, Saqib Hakak, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2026.105332

DataSense: A Real-Time Sensor-Based Benchmark Dataset for Attack Analysis in IIoT with Multi-Objective Feature Selection

Amir Firouzi, Sajjad Dadkhah, Sebin Abraham Maret, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Electronics202527 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/electronics14204095

Explainable malware detection through integrated graph reduction and learning techniques

Hesamodin Mohammadian, Griffin Higgins, Samuel Ansong, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Big Data Research202512 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.bdr.2025.100555

Towards privacy-preserving split learning: Destabilizing adversarial inference and reconstruction attacks in the cloud

Griffin Higgins, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Xichen Zhang, Amir David, Ali Akbar Ghorbani, Tongyu Ge

Internet of Things20258 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2025.101558

On the consistency of GNN explanations for malware detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Griffin Higgins, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Hesamodin Mohammadian, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Information Sciences20257 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2025.122603

FIGS: A Realistic Intrusion-Detection Framework for Highly Imbalanced IoT Environments

Zeynab Anbiaee, Sajjad Dadkhah, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

Electronics20256 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/electronics14142917

Recent Advances in Malware Detection: Graph Learning and Explainability

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Hesamodin Mohammadian, Mahdi Rabbani, Samuel Ansong, Griffin Higgins, Ali Akbar Ghorbani

arXiv (Cornell University)20252 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.10556

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Ali Ghorbani

Research

Latest papers

Cybersecurity in the quantum era: Assessing the impact of quantum computing on infrastructure

Blockchain feature extraction and behavioral profiling for illicit transaction analysis

Dual explanations via subgraph matching for malware detection

CICEV2025: Dataset and simulator for scalable attack detection with multi-GPU and skip-factor optimization

DataSense: A Real-Time Sensor-Based Benchmark Dataset for Attack Analysis in IIoT with Multi-Objective Feature Selection

Explainable malware detection through integrated graph reduction and learning techniques

Towards privacy-preserving split learning: Destabilizing adversarial inference and reconstruction attacks in the cloud

On the consistency of GNN explanations for malware detection

FIGS: A Realistic Intrusion-Detection Framework for Highly Imbalanced IoT Environments

Recent Advances in Malware Detection: Graph Learning and Explainability

Frequent collaborators

Aliakbar Ghorbani

Arash Habibi LAshkari

Ebrahim Bagheri

Rongxing Lu

Natalia Stakhanova

Roozbeh Razavi-Far

Iosif-Viorel Onut

Suprio Ray

Mohammad Mamun

Stephen Marsh

Yuhong Yan

Jie Zhang

Robin Cohen

zeinab noorian

Dima Alhadidi

Issa Traoré

Sajjad Dadkhah

Jalal Almhana

Faezeh Ensan

Bruce Colpitts

Fattane Zarrinkalam