| 2017 | ICDCS | Distributed Load Balancing in Key-Value Networked Caches. | Sikder Huq, M. Zubair Shafiq, Sukumar Ghosh, Amir R. Khakpour, Harkeerat Bedi |
| 2017 | PERCOM | Tracking and optimizing Quality of Experience in the encrypted internet. | M. Zubair Shafiq |
| 2016 | CIKM | The Rich and the Poor: A Markov Decision Process Approach to Optimizing Taxi Driver Revenue Efficiency. | Huigui Rong, Xun Zhou, Chang Yang, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu |
| 2016 | ICDCS | The Internet is for Porn: Measurement and Analysis of Online Adult Traffic. | Faraz Ahmed, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu |
| 2016 | ICNP | Optimizing Internet transit routing for content delivery networks. | Faraz Ahmed, M. Zubair Shafiq, Amir R. Khakpour, Alex X. Liu |
| 2016 | INFOCOM | Characterizing caching workload of a large commercial Content Delivery Network. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Amir R. Khakpour, Alex X. Liu |
| 2016 | SIGMETRICS | QoE Analysis of a Large-Scale Live Video Streaming Event. | Adnan Ahmed, M. Zubair Shafiq, Amir R. Khakpour |
| 2013 | CoNEXT | Leveraging diversity to optimize performance in mobile networks. | M. Zubair Shafiq |
| 2013 | HOTNETS | Cross-path inference attacks on multipath TCP. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Franck Le, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Alex X. Liu |
| 2009 | CCS | Using spatio-temporal information in API calls with machine learning algorithms for malware detection. | Faraz Ahmed, Haider Hameed, M. Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolvable malware. | Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, M. Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | GECCO | Are evolutionary rule learning algorithms appropriate for malware detection? | M. Zubair Shafiq, S. Momina Tabish, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | GECCO | On the appropriateness of evolutionary rule learning algorithms for malware detection. | M. Zubair Shafiq, S. Momina Tabish, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | KDD | Malware detection using statistical analysis of byte-level file content. | S. Momina Tabish, M. Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | RAID | On the Inefficient Use of Entropy for Anomaly Detection. | Mobin Javed, Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam |
| 2009 | RAID | Using Formal Grammar and Genetic Operators to Evolve Malware. | Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, M. Zubair Shafiq, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2009 | RAID | PE-Miner: Mining Structural Information to Detect Malicious Executables in Realtime. | M. Zubair Shafiq, S. Momina Tabish, Fauzan Mirza, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2008 | DIMVA | Embedded Malware Detection Using Markov n-Grams. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2008 | GECCO | Improving accuracy of immune-inspired malware detectors by using intelligent features. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2007 | CEC | Extended thymus action for improving response of AIS based NID system against malicious traffic. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Mehrin Kiani, Bisma Hashmi, Muddassar Farooq |
| 2007 | GECCO | Extended thymus action for reducing false positives in ais based network intrusion detection systems. | M. Zubair Shafiq, Mehrin Kiani, Bisma Hashmi, Muddassar Farooq |