Workshop Program

ICDM Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MLC)

Time (EST)

Title

Presenter/Author

9:00-9:05

Opening Remarks

Organizers

9:05-9:35

Keynote Presentation 1: AI for Fuzzing: A Tale of Two Techniques

Yuekang Li

(Nanyang Technological University)

9:35-10:05

Keynote Presentation 2: Privacy Preservation in Collaborative learning

Guangdong Bai

(U of Queensland)

Coffee Break

10:30-10:50

Backdoor Poisoning of Encrypted Traffic Classifiers

John Holodnak, Olivia Brown, Jason Matterer, and Andrew Lemke

10:50-11:10

Cascaded Multi‑Class Network Intrusion Detection with Decision Tree and Self-attentive Model

Yuchen Lan, Tram Truong Huu, Jiyan Wu, and Sin Gee Teo

11:10-11:30

An Identifying Patterns of Vulnerability Incidence in Foundational Machine Learning Repositories on GitHub: An Unsupervised Graph Embedding Approach

Agrim Sachdeva, Ben Lazarine, Ruchik Dama, Sagar Samtani, and Hongyi Zhu

11:30-11:50

An Adversarial Wargame Framework for Developing Robust Machine Learning-based Malware Detectors

Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Weifeng Li, Yidong Chai, Jason Pacheco, and Hsinchun Chen

Lunch Break

13:00-13:30

Keynote Presentation 3: Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches on their Utility in Security Operations

Simon Ou

(U of South Florida)

13:30-14:00

Keynote Presentation 4: Data Wrangling for Building ML Based Software Security Solutions: Lessons and Recommendations

Ali Babar

U of Adelaide

14:00-14:20

ENiD: An Encrypted Web Pages Traffic Identification Based on Web Visiting Behavior

MENGMENG GE, Xiangzhan Yu, Vinay Mysore Sachidananda, Shangqing Liu, and Likun Liu

14:20-14:40

Extracting Entities and Events from Cyber-Physical Security Incident Reports

Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sangameshwar Patil, Manideep Jella, Alok Kumar, and Girish K. Palshikar

14:40-15:00

EW-Tune: A Framework for Privately Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Differential Privacy

Rouzbeh Behnia, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Jason Pacheco, and Balaji Padmanabhan

15:00-15:05

Closing Remarks

Organizers