University of California, Irvine

List of Journals

  1. Hammad, Mahmoud, Qanita Bani Baker, Mohammed Al-Smadi, and Wesam Alrashdan. "Towards Enhancing the User Experience (UX) of ChIP-Seq Data Analysis Web Tools." International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708) (2022). [Accepted]
  2. Al-Smadi, Mohammed, Mahmoud Hammad, Qanita Bani Baker, Saja Khaled Tawalbeh, and Sa’ad A. Al-Zboon. "Transfer deep learning approach for detecting coronavirus disease in X-ray images." International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708) 11, no. 6 (2021). [Paper]
  3. Mohammad, AL-Smadi, Mahmoud M. Hammad, A. Sa’ad, AL-Tawalbeh Saja, and Erik Cambria. "Gated Recurrent Unit with Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis." Knowledge-Based Systems (2021): 107540. [Paper]
  4. Al-Smadi, Mohammed, Mahmoud Hammad, Qanita Bani Baker, and Sa'ad A. Al-Zboon. "A transfer learning with deep neural network approach for diabetic retinopathy classification." International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708) 11, no. 4 (2021). [Paper]
  5. Hammad, Mahmoud, Mohammed Al-Smadi, Qanita Bani Baker, and Sa'ad A. Al-Zboon. "Using deep learning models for learning semantic text similarity of Arabic questions." International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2088-8708) 11, no. 4 (2021). [Paper]
  6. AlSobeh, Anas MR, Sawsan AlShattnawi, Amin Jarrah, and Mahmoud M. Hammad. "WEAVESIM: AScalable AND REUSABLE CLOUD SIMULATION FRAMEWORK LEVERAGING ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING." Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology (JJCIT) 6, no. 02 (2020): 182-201. [Paper]
  7. Hammad, Mahmoud M., Mohammad Al-Smadi, Qanita Bani Baker, Muntaha Al-Asa'd, Nour Al-Khdour, Mutaz Bni Younes, and Enas Khwaileh. "Question to Question Similarity Analysis Using Morphological, Syntactic, Semantic, and Lexical Features." J. Univers. Comput. Sci. 26, no. 6 (2020): 671-697. [Paper]
  8. Qanita Bani Baker, Mahmoud Hammad, Wesam Al-Rashdan, Yaser Jararweh, Mohammad AL-Smadi, and MohammadAl-Zinatia. Comprehensive Comparison of Cloud-Based NGS Data Analysis and Alignment Tools. Journal of Informatics in Medicine Unlocked(IMU), January 2020 [Paper], [Online]
  9. Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek. DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), November 2018 (Accepted) [Paper]
  10. Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek. Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), November 2017 (Accepted) (ICSE 2018 journal-first)[Paper][ACM DL]

List of Conference Papers

  1. Tawalbeh, Saja Khaled, Mahmoud Hammad, and Mohammad Al-Smadi. "KEIS@ JUST at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Identifying multilingual offensive tweets using weighted ensemble and fine-tuned BERT." arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07820 (2020). [Paper]
  2. Tawalbeh, Saja, Mahmoud Hammad, and AL-Smadi Mohammad. "Saja at trac 2020 shared task: Transfer learning for aggressive identification with xgboost." In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying, pp. 99-105. 2020. [Paper]
  3. Zarzour, Hafed, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud M. Hammad, and Mohammed Al-Smadi. "A long short-term memory deep learning framework for explainable recommendation." In 2020 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), pp. 233-237. IEEE, 2020. [Paper]
  4. Tawalbeh, Saja Khaled, Mahmoud Hammad, and Mohammad Al-Smadi. "KEIS@ JUST at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Identifying multilingual offensive tweets using weighted ensemble and fine-tuned BERT." arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07820 (2020). [Paper]
  5. Shatnawi, Fara, Malak Abdullah, and Mahmoud Hammad. "MLEngineer at SemEval-2020 task 7: BERT-flair based humor detection model (BFHumor)." In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp. 1041-1048. 2020. [Paper]
  6. Soltani, Mohamed, Hafed Zarzour, Mohamed Chaouki Babahenini, Mahmoud Hammad, AL-Smadi Mohammad, and Yaser Jararweh. "An emotional feedback based on facial action coding system for MOOCs with computer-based assessment." In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 286-290. IEEE, 2019. [Paper]
  7. Soltani, Mohamed, Hafed Zarzour, Mohamed Chaouki Babahenini, Mahmoud Hammad, AL-Smadi Mohammad, and Yaser Jararweh. "An emotional feedback based on facial action coding system for MOOCs with computer-based assessment." In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 286-290. IEEE, 2019. [Paper]
  8. Al-Jarrah, Heba, Muntaha Al-Asa'd, A. Sa'ad, Saja Khaled Tawalbeh, Mahmoud M. Hammad, and AL-Smadi Mohammad. "Resolving Conflict of Interests and Recommending Expert Reviewers for Academic Publications Using Linked Open Data." In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), pp. 91-98. IEEE, 2019. [Paper]
  9. Dalal Alharthi, Mahmoud Hammad, Amelia C Regan. A Taxonomy of Social Engineering Defense Mechanisms. Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC 2020), March 2020, San Fransisco, USA
  10. Muntaha A. Al-As'ad, Nour Alkhdour, Mutaz mohammad Younes, Enas Khwaileh, Mahmoud Hammad, and Mohammad AL-Smadi. Question to Question Similarity Analysis Using Morphological, Syntactic, Semantic, and Lexical Features. 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019), November 2019, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  11. Mohamed Soltani, Zarzour Hafed, Babahenini Mohamed, Mahmoud Hammad, Mohammad AL-Smadi, and Yaser Jararweh. An Emotional Feedback Based on Facial Action Coding System for MOOCs with ComputerBased Assessment. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2019), October 2019, Granada, Spain
  12. Heba atta Aljarrah, Muntaha A. Al-As'ad, Saad A. Al-Zboon, Saja Tawalbeh, Mahmoud Hammad, and Mohammad AL-Smadi. Resolving Conflict of Interests and Recommending Expert Reviewers for Academic Publications Using Linked Open Data. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2019), October 2019, Granada, Spain
  13. Saad A. Al-Zboon, Saja Tawalbeh, Heba atta Aljarrah, Muntaha A. Al-As'ad, Mahmoud Hammad, and Mohammad AL-Smadi. Resolving Conflict of Interests in Recommending Reviewers for Academic Publications Using Link Prediction Techniques. International Conference on New Trends in Computing Sciences (ICTCS 2019), October 2019, Amman, Jordan
  14. Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. SALMA: Self-Protection of Android Systems from Inter-Component Communication Attacks. The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), September 2018, Montpellier, France. (20% acceptance rate) [Paper].
  15. Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Effects of Code Obfuscations on Android Apps and Anti-Malware Products. International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE), May 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. (21% acceptance rate) [Paper] Slides.
  16. Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek. Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications. European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), September 2017, Paderborn, Germany.(24% acceptance rate) [Paper]
  17. Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek. Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. International Conference of Software Architecture (ICSA), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2017. (22% acceptance rate) [Paper][Slides][YouTube Video] Nominated as best paper (6 out of 95 submissions) and invited to the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

Technical Reports

  1. Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Baghiri , and Sam Malek DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. UR Irvine, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report # UCI-ISR-18-2, April 2018 [Paper]
  2. Garcia, Joshua, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek. Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware. Institute for Software Research Technical Report # UCI-ISR-16-2 [Paper]
  3. Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Bahman Pedrood, Ali Bagheri-Khaligh and Sam Malek Obfuscation-Resilient, Efficient, and Accurate Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware George Mason University Technical Report # GMU-CS-TR-2015-10 [Paper]

Posters and Demos

  1. Mahmoud Hammad and Sam Malek. Automatic Extraction and Synchronization of a Runtime Model for Self-Adaptive Android Systems. The Institute for Software Research forum (ISR forum), Irvine, CA, May 2016. [Photo] [Photo]
  2. Mahmoud Hammad and Sam Malek. DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android. The Institute for Software Research forum (ISR forum), Irvine, CA, June 2017. [Photo] [Photo]
  3. Mahmoud Hammad and Sam Malek. Self-Protecting Mobile Software Systems. NSF Science of Security Quarterly Meeting, Fall 2016. [Poster]

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