Demystifying the Transferability of Adversarial Attacks in Computer Networks
Ehsan Nowroozi , Yassine Mekdad , Mohammad Hajian Berenjestanaki,
Mauro Conti, and Abdeslam EL Fergougui
E. Nowroozi is with the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey; and affiliated with the Center of Excellence in Data Analytics (VERİM), Sabanci University, Istanbul Turkey 34956; and affiliated with the Security & Privacy Research Group (SPRITZ), University of Padua, 35121, Padua, Italy (e-mail: ehsan.nowroozi@sabanciuniv.edu, nowroozi@math.unipd.it).
Y. Mekdad is with the Laboratory of Computer Networks and Systems, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, 11201, Zitoune, Meknes, Morocco, and with the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174 USA
(e-mail: y.mekdad@edu.umi.ac.ma, ymekdad@fiu.edu).
M. Conti and M. Hajian Berenjestanaki are with the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, 35121, Padua, Italy (e-mail: conti@math.unipd.it; mhajianb.1985@gmail.com).
A. El Fergougui is with the Laboratory of Computer Networks and Systems, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, 11201, Zitoune, Meknes, Morocco (e-mail: a.elfergougui@umi.ac.ma).
*The corresponding authors of the paper are: Ehsan Nowroozi and Yassine Mekdad.
Ehsan Nowroozi received his doctorate at the University of Siena in Italy. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Sabanci University’s Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS), Istanbul, Turkey’s Center of Excellence in Data Analytics (VERIM). In the years 2020 and 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Siena University and Padova University in Italy. His principal research interests are in the fields of security and privacy, with a focus on the use of image processing algorithms in multimedia authentication (multimedia forensics), network and internet security, and other areas. His professional service and activity as a reviewer for IEEE TNSM, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TNNLS, Elsevier journal Digital, EURASIP Journal on Information Security.
Yassine Mekdad
received a Msc Degree in Cryptography and Information Security from Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco. He works with the Computer Networks and Systems Laboratory at Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco. He holds a guest researcher position with the SPRITZ research group at University of Padua, Italy. He is currently working as a Research Scholar at the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL) at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. His research interest principally cover security and privacy problems in the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), and Cyber-physical systems (CPS).
Mohammad Hajian Berenjestanaki is currently a research assistant at the SPRITZ security and privacy research group, University of Padua, Italy. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics at University of Mazandaran, Iran. He did his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Communications, Cryptography in 2016 at the University of Tehran. His areas of interests include Networks Security and Cryptography, Deep Learning and Machine learning, Block-chain and Distributed Ledger Technology. He conducts his new researches in applied machine learning in Cybersecurity.
Mauro Conti received the
Ph.D. degree from the Sapienza University of Rome,
Italy. He is a Full Professor with the University
of Padua, Italy, and an Affiliate Professor with TU
Delft and University of Washington, Seattle. He
was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Vrije niversiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011, he joined as
an Assistant Professor with the University of Padua,
where he became an Associate Professor in 2015,
and a Full Professor in 2018. He has been a Visiting
Researcher with GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt,
UF, and FIU. His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco,
Intel, and Huawei. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship by
the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD.
Abdeslam El Fergougui
received the PhD degree in Computer Science from Mohammed V University in Rabat - Morocco. He is currently a professor in the department of Computer science, Faculty of sciences Meknes, Moulay Ismail University. His current research interests include Network, Sensor Network, cryptography, security. Furthermore, he assured several advanced training workshops in its field of action. He also assured several training courses in several Moroccan and international universities. He has managed several national and international projects. He is an active member of AUF (University Agency of Francophonie) where he provides training at the international level. He is a member of the reading committee of several journals and conferences in his field.