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Research Areas

  1. Question and Answering (QnA) System

Active Projects

  1. Data Privacy management using Policy compliant Blockchain structures

Past Projects

  1. Accelerated Cybersecurity
  2. Automatic Interpretation of Log Files
  3. Automatic Interpretation of Log Files
  4. Online Health Information
  5. Semantic Situational Awareness for Intrusion Detection

Publications

2026

  1. A. Joshi, T. Finin, K. P. Joshi, and L. Kagal, "Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems", InProceedings, 2026 IEEE Symposium on Agentic Services/ IEEE Conference on Web Services, July 2026, 544 downloads.

2025

  1. J. Tamboli, K. P. Joshi, and O. Clark, "Security Compliance for Smart Manufacturing using Knowledgegraph based Digital Twin", InProceedings, BigCyber Workshop held in conjunction with 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 2025, 767 downloads.
  2. M. Islam, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Automate IoT Device Security Compliance", InProceedings, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), July 2025, 2769 downloads.

2024

  1. A. Kotal, B. Luton, and A. Joshi, "KiNETGAN: Enabling Distributed Network Intrusion Detection through Knowledge-Infused Synthetic Data Generation", TechReport, UMBC, May 2024, 532 downloads.

2023

  1. J. Bolton, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "An Overview of Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Domains", Proceedings, IEEE International conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2023), October 2023, 6807 downloads.
  2. N. Das, A. Kotal, D. Roseberry, and A. Joshi, "Change Management using Generative Modeling on Digital Twins", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), October 2023, 1050 downloads.
  3. A. Piplai, A. Kotal, S. Mohseni, M. Gaur, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Knowledge-Enhanced Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity and Privacy", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, September 2023, 1813 downloads.
  4. A. Piplai, "Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning: A Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Problems", PhdThesis, July 2023, 4020 downloads.
  5. A. Piplai, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Offline RL+CKG: A hybrid AI model for cybersecurity tasks", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges Requiring the Combination of Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering, March 2023, 714 downloads.

2022

  1. A. Piplai, M. Anoruo, K. Fasaye, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and A. Ridley, "Knowledge guided Two-player Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Attacks and Defenses", InProceedings, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2022, 2013 downloads.
  2. C. Hanks, M. Maiden, P. Ranade, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Recognizing and Extracting Cybersecurity Entities from Text", InProceedings, Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2022, 5084 downloads.
  3. C. Hanks, M. Maiden, P. Ranade, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "CyberEnt: Extracting Domain Specific Entities from Cybersecurity Text", InProceedings, Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning, April 2022, 1751 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, A. Piplai, S. Chukkapalli, and A. Joshi, "PriveTAB : Secure and Privacy-Preserving sharing of Tabular Data", InProceedings, ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, April 2022, 878 downloads.
  5. C. Hanks and M. Maiden, "CyberEnt: A Cybersecurity Domain Specific Dataset for Named Entity Recognition", Misc, UMBC Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day, April 2022, 1063 downloads.
  6. S. Mitra, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Combating Fake Cyber Threat Intelligence using Provenance in Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2021, January 2022, 2016 downloads.

2021

  1. P. Ranade, A. Piplai, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyBERT: Contextualized Embeddings for the Cybersecurity Domain", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 3995 downloads.
  2. S. Dasgupta, A. Piplai, P. Ranade, and A. Joshi, "Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Improvement with Graph Neural Networks", InProceedings, International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 1014 downloads.
  3. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "Semantically Rich Framework to Automate Cyber Insurance Services", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2021, 1308 downloads.
  4. P. Ranade, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Generating Fake Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Transformer-Based Models", Proceedings, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021), July 2021, 1229 downloads, 110 citations.
  5. P. Ranade, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Study shows AI-generated fake cybersecurity reports fool experts", Article, The Conversation, June 2021, 1119 downloads.
  6. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Trends through Dynamic Topic Modeling", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, June 2021, 696 downloads.

2020

  1. S. Dasgupta, A. Piplai, A. Kotal, and A. Joshi, "A Comparative Study of Deep Learning based Named Entity Recognition Algorithms for Cybersecurity", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020, December 2020, 1761 downloads.
  2. A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, T. Finin, J. Holt, and R. Zak, "Creating Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs from Malware After Action Reports", Article, IEEE Access Journal, December 2020, 1550 downloads.
  3. A. Piplai, P. Ranade, A. Kotal, S. Mittal, S. N. Narayanan, and A. Joshi, "Using Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning for Malware Analysis", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020, December 2020, 1649 downloads.
  4. A. Piplai, S. Mittal, M. Abdelsalam, M. Gupta, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Knowledge Enrichment by Fusing Representations for Malware Threat Intelligence and Behavior", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), November 2020, 1213 downloads.
  5. M. Sills, P. Ranade, and S. Mittal, "Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Augmentation and Embedding Improvement - A Healthcare Usecase", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), November 2020, 501 downloads.
  6. S. Sontowski, M. Gupta, S. Chukkapalli, M. Abdelsalam, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and R. Sandhu, "Cyber Attacks on Smart Farming Infrastructure", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2020), October 2020, 1560 downloads.
  7. Z. Boukouvalas, C. Mallinson, E. Crothers, N. Japkowicz, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Adali, "Independent Component Analysis for Trustworthy Cyberspace during High Impact Events: An Application to Covid-19", Article, arXiv:2006.01284 [cs.LG], June 2020, 828 downloads.
  8. A. Piplai, S. Chukkapalli, and A. Joshi, "NAttack! Adversarial Attacks to bypass a GAN based classifier trained to detect Network intrusion", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2020, 1733 downloads.
  9. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Temporal Understanding of Cybersecurity Threats", InProceedings, IEEE 6th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2020, 1425 downloads.
  10. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Managing Cybersecurity at the Grassroots: Evidence from the First Nationwide Survey of Local Government Cybersecurity", Article, Journal of Urban Affairs, April 2020, 664 downloads.
  11. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Managing Cybersecurity at the Grassroots: Evidence from the First Nationwide Survey of Local Government Cybersecurity", Article, Journal of Urban Affairs, April 2020, 874 downloads.
  12. T. W. Satyapanich, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "CASIE: Extracting Cybersecurity Event Information from Text", InProceedings, Proceeding of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2020, 4113 downloads, 150 citations.

2019

  1. T. W. Satyapanich, T. Finin, and F. Ferraro, "Extracting Rich Semantic Information about Cybersecurity Events", InProceedings, Second Workshop on Big Data for CyberSecurity, held in conjunction with the IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data, December 2019, 1392 downloads.
  2. T. W. Satyapanich, "Modeling and Extracting Information about Cybersecurity Events from Text", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2019, 1248 downloads.
  3. N. Khurana, S. Mittal, A. Piplai, and A. Joshi, "Preventing Poisoning Attacks on AI based Threat Intelligence Systems", InProceedings, IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing, September 2019, 1402 downloads.
  4. A. Diaz, A. Sherman, and A. Joshi, "Phishing in an academic community: A study of user susceptibility and behavior", Article, Crypologia, August 2019, 892 downloads.
  5. A. Pingle, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, J. Holt, and R. Zak, "RelExt: Relation Extraction using Deep Learning approaches for Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Improvement", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2019), May 2019, 1887 downloads.
  6. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cyber-All-Intel: An AI for Security Related Threat Intelligence", TechReport, CoRR abs/1905.02895, May 2019, 1124 downloads.
  7. S. N. Narayanan, "A Framework for Detecting Anomalous Behaviors in Smart Cyber-physical Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2019, 708 downloads.
  8. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2019, 820 downloads.
  9. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, May 2019, 452 downloads.
  10. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cyberattacks at the Grass Roots: American Local Governments and the Need for High Levels of Cybersecurity", Article, Public Administration Review, February 2019, 1677 downloads.

2018

  1. S. N. Narayanan, K. Khanna, B. K. Panigrahi, and A. Joshi, "Security in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: A Case Study on Smart Grids and Smart Cars", InBook, Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy, December 2018, 1397 downloads.
  2. P. Ranade, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "Using Deep Neural Networks to Translate Multi-lingual Threat Intelligence", InProceedings, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI) 2018, November 2018, 2155 downloads.
  3. P. Ranade, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "Understanding Multi-lingual Threat Intelligence for AI based Cyber-defense Systems", InProceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, October 2018, 1217 downloads.
  4. S. N. Narayanan, A. Ganesan, K. P. Joshi, T. Oates, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Early Detection of Cybersecurity Threats Using Collaborative Cognition", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), October 2018, 4079 downloads, 60 citations.
  5. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cybersecurity at the Grassroots: American Local Governments and the Challenges of Internet Security", Article, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, September 2018, 1309 downloads.
  6. A. Padia, A. Roy, T. W. Satyapanich, F. Ferraro, S. Pan, Y. Park, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "UMBC at SemEval-2018 Task 8: Understanding Text about Malware", InProceedings, Proceedings of International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018), June 2018, 1437 downloads.

2017

  1. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", TechReport, arXiv, August 2017, 2079 downloads.
  2. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", Article, CoRR, August 2017, 1548 downloads.
  3. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cybersecurity Challenges to American Local Governments", InProceedings, Proceedings of 17th European Conference on Digital Government , June 2017, 1550 downloads.
  4. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cyber-Security at the Grassroots: Findings from a Nationwide Survey of Local Government CyberSecurity", InProceedings, 47th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, April 2017.
  5. , " UMBC/ICMA Survey of Local Government Cybersecurity Practices", TechReport, ICMA and UMBC, April 2017, 1057 downloads.
  6. D. Norris, L. Mateczun, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cybersecurity 2016 Survey, Summary Report of Survey Results", TechReport, UMBC, April 2017, 557 downloads.

2016

  1. S. Mittal, P. K. Das, V. Mulwad, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyberTwitter: Using Twitter to generate alerts for Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 2016, 4997 downloads.
  2. P. Nimbalkar, V. Mulwad, N. Puranik, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Interpretation of Structured Log Files", InProceedings, 17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 2016, 1706 downloads.
  3. B. Thuraisingham, M. Kantarcioglu, K. Hamlen, L. Khan, T. Finin, A. Joshi, T. Oates, and E. Bertino, "A Data Driven Approach for the Science of Cyber Security: Challenges and Directions", InProceedings, IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration,, July 2016, 2003 downloads.
  4. M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Botnets Using a Collaborative Situational-aware IDPS", InProceedings, Second International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, February 2016, 2142 downloads.
  5. Z. Syed, A. Padia, M. L. Mathews, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "UCO: A Unified Cybersecurity Ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security, February 2016, 4851 downloads.

2015

  1. Z. Syed, T. Finin, A. Padia, and M. L. Mathews, "Supporting Situationally Aware Cybersecurity Systems", TechReport, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 2015, 2125 downloads.
  2. W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "SVM-CASE: An SVM-based Context Aware Security Framework for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks", InProceedings, 82nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2015, 1943 downloads.
  3. D. Norris, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cybersecurity Challenges to American State and Local Governments", InProceedings, 15th European Conference on eGovernment, June 2015, 1341 downloads.
  4. D. Norris, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cyber-Security at the Grassroots: American State and Local Governments and the Management of Website Security", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, April 2015.

2013

  1. A. Joshi, R. Lal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Extracting cybersecurity related linked data from text", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 2013, 2929 downloads.
  2. P. Sharma, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Data Exfiltration by Integrating Information Across Layers", InProceedings, 14th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2013, 2369 downloads.
  3. A. Joshi, "Linked Data for Software Security Concepts and Vulnerability Descriptions", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, July 2013, 2194 downloads.
  4. W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CAST: Context-Aware Security and Trust framework for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks using Policies", Article, Distributed and Parallel Databases, June 2013, 2434 downloads.
  5. R. Lal, "Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text.", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May 2013, 2752 downloads.

2012

  1. M. L. Mathews, P. Halvorsen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Collaborative Approach to Situational Awareness for CyberSecurity", InProceedings, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, October 2012, 2462 downloads.
  2. S. More, M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Semantic Approach to Situational Awareness for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the National Symposium on Moving Target Research, June 2012, 4152 downloads.
  3. S. More, M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Knowledge-Based Approach To Intrusion Detection Modeling", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security, May 2012, 2805 downloads.
  4. S. More, "Situation Aware Intrusion Detection Model", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2012, 846 downloads.
  5. W. Li, P. A. Kodeswaran, P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Managing and Securing Critical Infrastructure - A Semantic Policy and Trust Driven Approach", InBook, Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges, January 2012, 2124 downloads.

2011

  1. W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "SAT: an SVM-based Automated Trust Management System for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2011 Military Communications Conference, November 2011, 2323 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, W. Li, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and K. Viswanathan, "Extracting Information about Security Vulnerabilities from Web Text", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Web Intelligence for Information Security Workshop, August 2011, 3703 downloads.
  3. W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "ATM: Automated Trust Management for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Using Support Vector Machine", InProceedings, 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2011), June 2011, 2180 downloads.

2009

  1. A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, T. Finin, W. Li, and P. A. Kodeswaran, "A Policy and Trust Driven Framework for Securing Cyber Physical Systems", InProceedings, Workshop on Future Directions in Cyber-physical Systems Security, July 2009, 708 downloads.

2006

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and S. Greenspan, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Open and Dynamic Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2006, 3515 downloads.

2005

  1. L. Ding, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and Y. Yesha, "On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, March 2005, 4835 downloads, 32 citations.

2004

  1. L. Ding, P. Kolari, S. Ganjugunte, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling and Evaluating Trust Network Inference", InProceedings, Seventh International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies at AAMAS 2004, July 2004, 5414 downloads, 31 citations.

2003

  1. J. Undercoffer, F. Perich, A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", Article, ACM Monet: Special Issue on Security in Mobile Computing Environments, October 2003, 4976 downloads, 44 citations.
  2. J. Undercoffer, A. Joshi, and J. Pinkston, "Modeling Computer Attacks: An Ontology for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, The Sixth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, September 2003, 5390 downloads, 19 citations.
  3. J. Pinkston, J. Undercoffer, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, July 2003, 2145 downloads, 150 citations.

Presentation

  1. A Dynamic Pipeline for Cybersecurity Information Extraction and Understanding
  2. Extracting Cybersecurity related entities, terms and concepts from text.
  3. Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Cybersecurity
  4. Semantics for Cybersecurity and Privacy
  5. situational awareness for cybersecurity
  6. Understanding Malware Behavior with Reinforcement Learning
  7. What generative AI systems know about cybersecurity
  8. What generative AI systems know about cybersecurity

Dataset

  1. Annotations of Cybersecurity blogs and articles
  2. Cybersecurity embeddings

Poster

  1. Collaborative Research: EAGER SaTC-EDU: AI and Cybersecurity: from Research to the Classroom
  2. Poster: AI and Cybersecurity: from Research to the Classroom
  1. Extracting Malware Information from Cybersecurity Text

Document

  1. UMBC/ICMA Survey of local government cybersecurity practices

Old Events

  1. Modeling and Extracting information about Cybersecurity Events from Text
    May 16, 2017
  2. Are you in control or being controlled in your vehicle?
    October 26, 2015
  3. Semantics for Cybersecurity and Privacy
    May 1, 2015
  4. Extracting cybersecurity related entities, terms and concepts from text
    May 28, 2013
  5. MS defense: Social Media Analytics: Digital Footprints
    May 13, 2013
  6. A Collaborative Approach to Situational Awareness for CyberSecurity
    April 29, 2013
  7. A multilayer framework to catch data exfiltration
    April 8, 2013
  8. Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text
    April 1, 2013
  9. talk: Self-sustainable Cyber-physical System Design
    March 13, 2012