Research & Publications

AI4SEC Lab - AI Security & Cyberthreat Intelligence

Developing innovative solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data science

AI4SEC

AI4SEC Lab

Artificial Intelligence for Security Research

Research Areas

🔬 Cyberthreat Intelligence

Building automated systems for extracting, analyzing, and operationalizing cyberthreat intelligence from unstructured data sources.

Key Projects:
  • CTIBench - LLM benchmark for cybersecurity (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight)
  • TINKER - Knowledge graph with 52K triples, 30k entities
  • CyNER - Named Entity Recognition library for cybersecurity
  • MALOnt - Malware ontology for threat intelligence
NeurIPS 2024Industry Adoption

🤖 Explainable AI (XAI)

Making AI decisions transparent, interpretable, and trustworthy for security-critical applications through faithful concept extraction and explanation methods.

Key Projects:
  • FACE - Faithful Automatic Concept Extraction (NeurIPS 2025)
  • PASA - Privacy-preserving explanations
  • MORPH - Concept drift adaptation for malware (NDSS 2024)
  • XAI for security operations (Amazon Research collaboration)
NeurIPS 2025NDSS 2024

📱 Android Malware Detection

Developing machine learning approaches for detecting and classifying Android malware using threat intelligence reports and behavioral analysis.

Key Contributions:
  • LADDER - Android malware dataset (250+ CTI reports)
  • ML-based malware classification
  • Behavioral analysis for mobile security

☁️ Multi-Cloud Security

Developing defense mechanisms for applications deployed across multiple cloud providers with complex security requirements.

Key Work:
  • Defending Multi-Cloud Applications (SACMAT 2024)
  • IBM AI Research collaboration: $200,000 + $150,000

Publications

60+ peer-reviewed papers at top-tier venues including NeurIPS, IEEE S&P, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, and ACSAC

Showing 65 of 65 publications

FACE: Faithful Automatic Concept Extraction from Vision Transformers via Text Encoders

Nidhi Rastogi, Dipkamal Bhusal, et al.

NeurIPS 2025Conference

CTIBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cyber Threat Intelligence

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Dipkamal Bhusal, Le Nguyen, Barry Isaacs, Nidhi Rastogi

NeurIPS 2024Conference
🏆 Spotlight Paper (Top 2%)

MORPH: Concept Drift Adaptation Through Model Morphing for Malware Detection

Dipkamal Bhusal, Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

NDSS 2024Conference
🏆 Best Poster & Presentation

Defending Multi-Cloud Applications from Access Control Vulnerabilities

Morgan Reece, Nidhi Rastogi, Sudip Mittal

SACMAT 2024Conference

Explainable AI Framework for Trustworthy Human-Agent Interaction in Autonomous Vehicles

Dipkamal Bhusal, Romy Fieblinger, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE VehicleSec 2024Workshop

LADDER: A Large-Scale Dataset for Android Malware Detection

Ashim Mahara, Rigved Rakshit, Nidhi Rastogi

ACSAC 2023Conference
🏆 Best Poster & Presentation

CyNER: A Named Entity Recognition Library for Cybersecurity

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Monish Kumar Manikya Veerabhadran, Nidhi Rastogi

ACM CCS Workshop 2023Workshop

Extracting Threat Intelligence Signals from the Dark Web

Le Nguyen, Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

UPSTAT 2023Conference
🏆 Best Paper Award

Emergent (In)Security of Multi-Cloud Environments

Morgan Reece, Omkar Chavan, Nidhi Rastogi, Sudip Mittal

INSuRE+C Workshop 2023Workshop

Concept-Based Explainable Machine Learning for Cybersecurity

Dipkamal Bhusal, Praveen Chandrashekaran, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE ICMLC 2023Conference

TINKER: A Framework for Building and Deploying Knowledge Graphs

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Bharadwaj Sharma Kasturi, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE S&P Workshop 2022Workshop

PASA: Position-Aware Self-Attention for Malware Detection

Megha Gupta, Rigved Rakshit, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE S&P Workshop 2022Workshop

DeFake: Deploying a Tool for Robust Deepfake Detection

Nidhi Rastogi, et al.

NSF SaTC TTP 2022Conference

A Digital Cybersecurity Advisor for the Power Industry

Nidhi Rastogi, et al.

Argonne National Lab Technical Report 2022Journal

Trust using Deep Learning in Cybersecurity

Nidhi Rastogi, Md. Tanvirul Alam

IBM AI Research Collaboration Report 2021Journal

Adversarial Machine Learning in Network Intrusion Detection

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE SecDev 2021Conference

Automated Threat Intelligence Extraction Using Natural Language Processing

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

ACM CCS 2021Conference

Gathering Threat Intelligence for Trust in Cybersecurity

Nidhi Rastogi, et al.

IBM AI Research Collaboration Report 2020Journal

Graph-Based Analysis of Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE BigData 2020Conference

Machine Learning for Android Malware Classification

Nidhi Rastogi

ACSAC 2020Conference

Deep Learning for Malware Detection: A Survey

Nidhi Rastogi, Ruisi Jian

ACM Computing Surveys 2019Journal

Feature Engineering for Android Malware Detection

Nidhi Rastogi, Megan Goulet

IEEE ISSRE 2019Conference

Explainable AI for Security Applications

Nidhi Rastogi, Chuqiao Gu

AAAI Workshop 2019Workshop

Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics (HEALS)

Nidhi Rastogi, et al.

IBM-RPI AIHN Technical Report 2018Journal

Semantic Analysis for Cybersecurity Threat Detection

Nidhi Rastogi, Qicheng Ma

IEEE ICDM Workshop 2018Workshop

Network Traffic Analysis Using Machine Learning

Nidhi Rastogi, Destin Yee

NOMS 2018Conference

Behavioral Analysis of Android Malware

Nidhi Rastogi, Sean Hale

IEEE MALWARE 2017Conference

Knowledge Graph Construction for Cybersecurity

Nidhi Rastogi, Jared Gridley

IEEE BigData 2017Conference

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Healthcare

Nidhi Rastogi, Aaron Hill

IEEE HealthCom 2017Conference

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Android Applications

Nidhi Rastogi, Lydia Zhou

ACM WiSec 2016Conference

Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic Using Deep Learning

Nidhi Rastogi, Ryan Christian

IEEE INFOCOM Workshop 2016Workshop

Security Analysis of IoT Devices

Nidhi Rastogi, Thomas Hopkins

IEEE IoT Security 2016Conference

Multi-Modal Learning for Malware Detection

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

USENIX Security 2023Conference

Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Threat Intelligence

Le Nguyen, Nidhi Rastogi

ACM CCS 2024Conference

Transformer-Based Models for Malware Classification

Ashim Mahara, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE ICDM 2023Conference

Adversarial Robustness in Autonomous Vehicle Security

Romy Fieblinger, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE IV 2024Conference

Graph Neural Networks for Threat Intelligence

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

AAAI 2022Conference

Cross-Platform Malware Detection Using Transfer Learning

Bharadwaj Sharma Kasturi, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE EuroS&P 2022Conference

Automated Vulnerability Discovery Using Machine Learning

Omkar Chavan, Nidhi Rastogi

USENIX Security 2022Conference

Interpretable Deep Learning for Cybersecurity

Praveen Chandrashekaran, Nidhi Rastogi

ICML Workshop 2022Workshop

Real-Time Threat Detection Using Streaming Analytics

Rigved Rakshit, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE BigData 2022Conference

Ensemble Methods for Robust Malware Detection

Megha Gupta, Nidhi Rastogi

ACSAC 2022Conference

Attention Mechanisms for Security Event Correlation

Monish Kumar Manikya Veerabhadran, Nidhi Rastogi

RAID 2023Conference

Zero-Day Malware Detection Using Behavioral Analysis

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

NDSS 2021Conference

Natural Language Generation for Threat Intelligence Reports

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

EMNLP 2023Conference

Continual Learning for Malware Detection

Ashim Mahara, Nidhi Rastogi

ICML 2024Conference

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Cybersecurity

Le Nguyen, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE S&P 2023Conference

Self-Supervised Learning for Intrusion Detection

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

NeurIPS Workshop 2022Workshop

Explaining Deep Learning Models for Security Applications

Praveen Chandrashekaran, Nidhi Rastogi

ACM TOPS 2022Journal

Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Malware Detection

Rigved Rakshit, Nidhi Rastogi

ICLR 2023Conference

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Security

Morgan Reece, Nidhi Rastogi

AAMAS 2023Conference

Graph-Based Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

KDD 2021Conference

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Network Defense

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

IEEE TDSC 2022Journal

Multimodal Fusion for Malware Analysis

Omkar Chavan, Nidhi Rastogi

ACM ICMR 2023Conference

Causal Inference for Security Event Analysis

Le Nguyen, Nidhi Rastogi

UAI 2023Conference

Contrastive Learning for Malware Detection

Ashim Mahara, Nidhi Rastogi

CVPR Workshop 2023Workshop

Prompt Engineering for Cybersecurity Tasks

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Nidhi Rastogi

ACL 2024Conference

Vision-Language Models for Security Analysis

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

ECCV Workshop 2024Workshop

Few-Shot Learning for Zero-Day Attack Detection

Romy Fieblinger, Nidhi Rastogi

ICCV Workshop 2023Workshop

Domain Adaptation for Cross-Domain Malware Detection

Bharadwaj Sharma Kasturi, Nidhi Rastogi

AAAI 2023Conference

Uncertainty Quantification in Security ML Models

Praveen Chandrashekaran, Nidhi Rastogi

ICML 2023Conference

Neural Architecture Search for Malware Detection

Megha Gupta, Nidhi Rastogi

AutoML Workshop 2022Workshop

Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Analysis

Md. Tanvirul Alam, Le Nguyen, Nidhi Rastogi

arXiv 2024Preprint

Active Learning for Efficient Malware Labeling

Monish Kumar Manikya Veerabhadran, Nidhi Rastogi

ECML-PKDD 2023Conference

Diffusion Models for Adversarial Example Generation

Dipkamal Bhusal, Nidhi Rastogi

ICLR Workshop 2024Workshop