Abdun Mahmood

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Abdun Mahmood received his PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2008 the MSc (Research) degree in computer science and the B.Sc. degree in applied physics and electronics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1999 and 1997, respectively. He is currently in the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University. Previously, he worked at UNSW, RMIT, Melbourne University, and University of Dhaka. He has been working as an academic in Computer Science since 1999. In 2011, he joined UNSW as a Lecturer in Computer Science until he joined La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2017, where he is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security. His research interests include data mining techniques for scalable network traffic analysis, anomaly detection, and industrial SCADA security. He has published his work in various IEEE Transactions and A-tier international journals and conferences.

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Computer Science and Information Technology , School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

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academic article
- Desai SAlhadad RChilamkurti NMahmood A. A survey of privacy preserving schemes in IoE enabled Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Cluster Computing. 2018
- Shah ZMahmood ANBarlow MGTari ZYi XZomaya A. Computing hierarchical summary from two-dimensional big data streams. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 29:803-818. 2018
- Shah ZAnwar AMahmood ANTari ZZomaya AY. A Spatio-temporal Data Summarization Paradigm for Real-time Operation of Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 1-1. 2017
- Shah ZMahmood ANTari ZZomaya AY. A Technique for Efficient Query Estimation over Distributed Data Streams. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 28:2770-2783. 2017
- Anwar AMahmood ANTari Z. Ensuring Data Integrity of OPF Module and Energy Database by Detecting Changes in Power Flow Patterns in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 13:3299-3311. 2017
- Mahmood ANTaheri JTari ZZomaya AYAnwar A. HPC based Intelligent Volt/VAr Control of Unbalanced Distribution Smart Grid in the presence of Noise. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 8:1446-1459. 2017
- Anwar AMahmood ANPickering M. Modeling and performance evaluation of stealthy false data injection attacks on smart grid in the presence of corrupted measurements. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 83:58-72. 2017
- Ahmed MMahmood ANIslam MR. A survey of anomaly detection techniques in financial domain. Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing: theory, methods and applications. 55:278-288. 2016
- Ahmed MMahmood ANHu J. A survey of network anomaly detection techniques. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 60:19-31. 2016
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Anomaly detection in electric network database of smart grid: Graph matching approach. Electric Power Systems Research. 133:51-62. 2016
- Ahmed MAnwar AMahmood ANShah ZMaher MJ. An Investigation of Performance Analysis of Anomaly Detection Techniques for Big Data in SCADA Systems. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems. 2:e5-e5. 2015
- Shah ZMahmood ANBarlow M. Computing discounted multidimensional hierarchical aggregates using modified Misra Gries algorithm. Performance Evaluation. 91:170-186. 2015
- Anwar AMahmood ANTari Z. Identification of vulnerable node clusters against false data injection attack in an AMI based Smart Grid. Information Systems. 53:201-212. 2015
- Kabir MEMahmood ANMustafa AKWang H. Microaggregation sorting framework for K-Anonymity statistical disclosure control in cloud computing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. PP:1-22. 2015
- Ahmed MMahmood AN. Novel Approach for Network Traffic Pattern Analysis using Clustering-based Collective Anomaly Detection. Annals of Data Science. 2:111-130. 2015
- Fahad ATari ZAlmalawi AGoscinski AKhalil IMahmood A. PPFSCADA: privacy preserving framework for SCADA data publishing. Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing: theory, methods and applications. 37:496-511. 2014
- Rahman RHIslam RAltas IMahmood ANAbawajy J. WITHDRAWN: An adaptive path hiding technique for participatory sensing networks. Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing: theory, methods and applications. 0-0. 2014
- Aryani APerin FLungu MMahmood ANNierstrasz O. Predicting dependences using domain-based coupling. Journal of software: Evolution and Process. 26:50-76. 2014
- Queiroz CMahmood ATari Z. A probabilistic model to predict the survivability of SCADA systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 9:1975-1985. 2013
- Sufi FKhalil IMahmood AN. A clustering based system for instant detection of cardiac abnormalities from compressed ECG. Expert Systems with Applications. 38:4705-4713. 2011
- Sufi FKhalil IMahmood A. Compressed ECG Biometric: A Fast, Secured and Efficient Method for Identification of CVD Patient. Journal of Medical Systems. 35:1349-1358. 2011
- Queiroz CMahmood ATari Z. SCADASim-A Framework for Building SCADA Simulations. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2:589-597. 2011
- Hu JKhalil IHan SMahmood A. Seamless integration of dependability and security concepts in SOA: a feedback control system based framework and taxonomy. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 34:1150-1159. 2011
- Mahmood ANHu JTari ZLeckie C. Critical infrastructure protection: Resource efficient sampling to improve detection of less frequent patterns in network traffic. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 33:491-502. 2010
- Mahmood ALeckie CUdaya P. Creating Concise Summaries of Network Traffic Using Hierarchical Clustering. Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research. 44:281-288. 2010
- Islam RZhou WXiang YMahmood AN. Spam filtering for network traffic security on a multi-core environment. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 21:1307-1320. 2009
- Mahmood ANLeckie CUdaya P. An Efficient Clustering Scheme to Exploit Hierarchical Data in Network Traffic Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 20:752-767. 2008
- Karim MMahmood ANothers. Random Shuffling to Reduce Disorder in Adaptive Sorting Scheme. Arxiv preprint cs/0012002. 2000
chapter
- Tari ZKhalil IAlmalawi AFahad AZomaya AYMahmood AQueiroz C. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA): An Introduction 2016
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Cyber Security of Smart Grid Infrastructure. 139-154. 2014
- Ahmed MMahmood ANHu J. Outlier Detection. 3-21. 2014
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Vulnerabilities of Smart Grid State Estimation Against False Data Injection Attack. Green Energy and Technology. 411-428. 2014
- Mahmood ANLeckie CHu JTari ZAtiquzzaman M. Network traffic analysis and SCADA security. 383-405. 2010
conference paper
- Tari ZThompson AAlmusalam NBertok PMahmood AN. MicroGRID: An Accurate and Efficient Real-Time Stream Data Clustering with Noise. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 483-494. 2018
- Shah ZMahmood ANBarlow M. Computing hierarchical summary of the data streams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 168-179. 2016
- Anwar AMahmood ANPickering M. Data-driven stealthy injection attacks on smart grid with incomplete measurements. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 180-192. 2016
- Anwar AMahmood APickering M. Estimation of Smart Grid Topology using SCADA Measurements. 2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART GRID COMMUNICATIONS (SMARTGRIDCOMM). 2016
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Stealthy and blind false injection attacks on SCADA EMS in the presence of gross errors. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. 1-5. 2016
- Anwar AMahmood ANShah Z. A data-driven approach to distinguish cyber-attacks from physical faults in a smart grid. Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 1811-1814. 2015
- Ahmed MMahmood ANMaher MJ. A novel approach for network traffic summarization. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 51-60. 2015
- Shah ZMahmood AN. A summarization paradigm for big data. Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014. 61-63. 2015
- Ahmed MMahmood ANMaher MJ. An efficient approach for complex data summarization using multiview clustering. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 38-47. 2015
- Anwar AMahmood ANAhmed M. False Data Injection Attack Targeting the LTC Transformers to Disrupt Smart Grid Operation. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 252-266. 2015
- Shah ZMahmood ANSlay J. Forensic potentials of solid state drives. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 113-126. 2015
- Ahmed MMahmood ANMaher MJ. Heart disease diagnosis using co-clustering. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 61-70. 2015
- Ahmed MMahmood AN. Network Traffic Pattern Analysis Using Improved Information Theoretic Co-clustering Based Collective Anomaly Detection. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 204-219. 2015
- Mahmood ANKabir MEMustafa AK. Novel iterative min-max clustering to minimize information loss in statistical disclosure control. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 157-172. 2015
- Anwar AMahmood AN. CF-PSO based loss sensitivity clustering technique to identify optimal DG allocation nodes for energy efficient smart grid operation. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 1130-1135. 2014
- Anwar AMahmood ANIslam R. CHPSO - A new collaborative hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 1768-1773. 2014
- Ahmed MMahmood AN. Clustering based semantic data summarization technique: A new approach. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 1780-1785. 2014
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Enhanced estimation of Autoregressive wind power prediction model using Constriction Factor Particle Swarm Optimization. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 1136-1140. 2014
- Ahmed MMahmood AN. Network traffic analysis based on collective anomaly detection. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 1141-1146. 2014
- Shah ZMahmood ANOrgun MAMashinchi MH. Subset selection classifier (SSC): A training set reduction method. Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2013. 862-869. 2014
- Anwar AMahmood AN. Swarm intelligence based multi-phase OPF for peak power loss reduction in a smart grid. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. 1-5. 2014
- Bhattacharya MIslam RMahmood AN. Uncertainty and evolutionary optimization: A novel approach. Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014. 988-993. 2014
- Shah ZMahmood ANMustafa AK. A hybrid approach to improving clustering accuracy using SVM. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2013. 783-788. 2013
- Ahmed MMahmood AN. A novel approach for outlier detection and clustering improvement. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2013. 577-582. 2013
- Kabir MEMahmood ANMustafa AK. K-means clustering microaggregation for statistical disclosure control. Advances in Soft Computing. 1109-1115. 2013
- Mahmood ANKabir MEMustafa AK. New multi-dimensional sorting based K-anonymity microaggregation for statistical disclosure control. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 256-272. 2013
- Shah ZNaseem ROrgun MAMahmood AShahzad S. Software clustering using automated feature subset selection. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 47-58. 2013
- Aryani APerin FLungu MMahmood ANNierstrasz O. Can we predict dependencies using domain information?. Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE. 55-64. 2011
- Mahmood ANLeckie CIslam RTari Z. Hierarchical Summarization Techniques for Network Traffic. 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA). 2474-2479. 2011
- Queiroz CMahmood ATari Z. Survivable SCADA systems: An analytical framework using performance modelling. GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. 2010
- Queiroz CMahmood ATari Z. An analytical framework for evaluating survivability of SCADA systems. Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT-2010, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2010, ScalCom-2010. 877-881. 2010
- Syeda-Mahmood TBeymer DWang FMahmood ALundstrom RJShafee NHolve T. Automatic selection of keyframes from angiogram videos. Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 20th International Conference on. 4008-4011. 2010
- Queiroz Batista Da Silva CMahmood ATari Z. Survivable SCADA systems: An analytical framework using performance modelling. IEEE GLOBECOM Global Communications Conference Exhibition and Industry Forum. 307-311. 2010
- Queiroz CMahmood AHu JTari ZYu X. Building a SCADA security testbed. NSS 2009 - Network and System Security. 357-364. 2009
- Sufi FMahmood AKhalil I. Diagnosis of cardiovascular abnormalities from Compressed ECG: A data mining based approach. Final Program and Abstract Book - 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, ITAB 2009. 60-63. 2009
- Mahmood ALeckie CUdaya P. A scalable sampling scheme for clustering in network traffic analysis. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2007
- Mahmood ANLeckie CUdaya P. Echidna: Efficient clustering of hierarchical data for network traffic analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1092-1098. 2006
thesis
- Mahmood AN. Hierarchical Clustering and Summarization of Network Traffic Data 2008