| 2025 | ACL | TechniqueRAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Adversarial Technique Annotation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Text. | Ahmed Lekssays, Utsav Shukla, Husrev Taha Sencar, Md. Rizwan Parvez |
| 2025 | ESORICS | StructTransform: A Scalable Attack Surface for Safety-Aligned Large Language Models. | Shehel Yoosuf, Temoor Ali, Ahmed Lekssays, Mashael AlSabah, Issa Khalil |
| 2025 | RAID | From Text to Actionable Intelligence: Automating STIX Entity and Relationship Extraction. | Ahmed Lekssays, Husrev Taha Sencar, Ting Yu |
| 2024 | AsiaCCS | Semantic Ranking for Automated Adversarial Technique Annotation in Security Text. | Udesh Kumarasinghe, Ahmed Lekssays, Husrev Taha Sencar, Sabri Boughorbel, Charitha Elvitigala, Preslav Nakov |
| 2023 | AINA | Early-Stage Ransomware Detection Based on Pre-attack Internal API Calls. | Filippo Coglio, Ahmed Lekssays, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari |
| 2023 | EDBT | Privacy-preserving Decentralized Learning of Knowledge Graph Embeddings. | Anh-Tu Hoang, Ahmed Lekssays, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari |
| 2021 | ESORICS | LiMNet: Early-Stage Detection of IoT Botnets with Lightweight Memory Networks. | Lodovico Giaretta, Ahmed Lekssays, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Sarunas Girdzijauskas |
| 2020 | ICSoft | A Novel Approach for Android Malware Detection and Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks. | Ahmed Lekssays, Bouchaib Falah, Sameer Abufardeh |