@misc{zhao2026patent,
  title     = {Traveling Hardware Accelerator for Data Sharing in Collaborative Learning},
  author    = {Shixuan Zhao and Zhongshu Gu and Salman Ahmed and Enriquillo Valdez and Hani Jamjoom},
  note      = {US Patent Application 18/933,171 (US 2026/0120000 A1)},
  year      = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{zhao2025gpu,
  title     = {GPU Travelling: Efficient Confidential Collaborative Training with TEE-Enabled GPUs},
  author    = {Shixuan Zhao and Zhongshu Gu and Salman Ahmed and Enriquillo Valdez and Hani Jamjoom and Zhiqiang Lin},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025, pp. 2653–2667},
  year      = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{williams2025agentic,
  title     = {Towards Safe Agentic AI Performance Engineering},
  author    = {Dan Williams and Milo Craun and Michael V. Le and Julian Stephen and Salman Ahmed and Hani Jamjoom},
  booktitle = {4th Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems, 2025, pp. 63–68},
  year      = {2025}
}

@misc{gu2025nvidia,
  title     = {NVIDIA GPU Confidential Computing Demystified},
  author    = {Zhongshu Gu and Enriquillo Valdez and Salman Ahmed and Julian James Stephen and Michael Le and Hani Jamjoom and Shixuan Zhao and Zhiqiang Lin},
  note      = {arXiv:2507.02770},
  year      = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{valdez2024moats,
  title     = {Crossing Shifted Moats: Replacing Old Bridges with New Tunnels to Confidential Containers},
  author    = {Enriquillo Valdez and Salman Ahmed and Zhongshu Gu and Christophe de Dinechin and Pau-Chen Cheng and Hani Jamjoom},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2024, pp. 1390–1404},
  year      = {2024}
}

@article{cheng2024tdx,
  title     = {Intel TDX Demystified: A Top-Down Approach},
  author    = {Pau-Chen Cheng and Wojciech Ozga and Enriquillo Valdez and Salman Ahmed and Zhongshu Gu and Hani Jamjoom and Hubertus Franke and James Bottomley},
  journal   = {ACM Computing Surveys 56(9), 1–33},
  year      = {2024}
}

@article{xiao2024embedding,
  title     = {Measurement of Embedding Choices on Cryptographic API Completion Tasks},
  author    = {Ya Xiao and Wenjia Song and Salman Ahmed and Xinyang Ge and Bimal Viswanath and Na Meng and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 33(3), 1–30},
  year      = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{jia2024probes,
  title     = {Fast (Trapless) Kernel Probes Everywhere},
  author    = {Jinghao Jia and Michael V. Le and Salman Ahmed and Dan Williams and Hani Jamjoom and Tianyin Xu},
  booktitle = {USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) 2024, pp. 379–386},
  year      = {2024}
}

@misc{jia2024patent,
  title     = {Critical-Object Guided Operating System Fuzzing},
  author    = {Jinghao Jia and Michael V. Le and Salman Ahmed and Hani Jamjoom},
  note      = {US Patent Application 18/121,650 (US 2024/0311491 A1)},
  year      = {2024}
}

@misc{ahmed2024patent,
  title     = {Dynamic Quarantining of Containers},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Michael V. Le and Hani Jamjoom},
  note      = {US Patent Application 18/178,508 (US 2024/0297893 A1)},
  year      = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2023dpp,
  title     = {Not All Data are Created Equal: Data and Pointer Prioritization for Scalable Protection Against Data-Oriented Attacks},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Hans Liljestrand and Hani Jamjoom and Matthew Hicks and N. Asokan and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {USENIX Security Symposium},
  year      = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{le2023syscall,
  title     = {Securing Container-based Clouds with Syscall-aware Scheduling},
  author    = {Michael V. Le and Salman Ahmed and Dan Williams and Hani Jamjoom},
  booktitle = {ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
  year      = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{jia2023kcfi,
  title     = {Practical and Flexible Kernel CFI Enforcement using eBPF},
  author    = {Jinghao Jia and Michael V. Le and Salman Ahmed and Dan Williams and Hani Jamjoom},
  booktitle = {eBPF Workshop at ACM SIGCOMM 2023, pp. 84–85},
  year      = {2023}
}

@misc{yao2023patent,
  title     = {Probabilistic Evidence Based Insider Threat Detection and Reasoning},
  author    = {Danfeng Yao and Salman Ahmed and Ya Xiao},
  note      = {US Patent Application 18/009,873 (US 2023/0269264 A1)},
  year      = {2023}
}

@article{ahmed2022ble,
  title     = {Privacy Guarantees of Bluetooth Low Energy Contact Tracing: A Case Study on COVIDWISE},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Ya Xiao and Taejoong (Tijay) Chung and Carol Fung and Moti Yung and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  journal   = {IEEE Computer, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 54–62, Feb. 2022},
  year      = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2022blePoster,
  title     = {POSTER: Privacy Guarantees of BLE Contact Tracing for COVID-19 and Beyond: A Case Study on COVIDWISE},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Ya Xiao and Taejoong Chung and Carol Fung and Moti Yung and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2022},
  year      = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{xiao2022icse,
  title     = {Poster: Comprehensive Comparisons of Embedding Approaches for Cryptographic API Completion},
  author    = {Ya Xiao and Salman Ahmed and Xinyang Ge and Bimal Viswanath and Na Meng and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion (ICSE-Companion) 2022, pp. 360–361},
  year      = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2022spposter,
  title     = {Poster: Automatic Identification and Protection of Memory-resident Sensitive Data to Defend Against Data-Oriented Attacks},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Hans Liljestrand and N. Asokan and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2022 Posters},
  year      = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{xiao2022ndssposter,
  title     = {Poster: Comparing Neural Network Solutions in Cryptographic API Completion},
  author    = {Ya Xiao and Salman Ahmed and Wenjia Song and Bimal Viswanath and Na Meng and Patrick McDaniel and Xinyang Ge and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022 Posters},
  year      = {2022}
}

@phdthesis{ahmed2022phd,
  title     = {Quantitative Metrics and Measurement Methodologies for System Security Assurance},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed},
  booktitle = {Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Tech},
  year      = {2022}
}

@misc{le2022patent,
  title     = {Security Risk-Aware Scheduling on Container-Based Clouds},
  author    = {Michael V. Le and Salman Ahmed and Hani Jamjoom},
  note      = {US Patent Application 17/340,145 (US 2022/0391532 A1)},
  year      = {2022}
}

@article{cheng2021dop,
  title     = {Exploitation Techniques for Data-Oriented Attacks with Existing and Potential Defense Approaches},
  author    = {Long Cheng and Salman Ahmed and Hans Liljestrand and Thomas Nyman and Haipeng Cai and Trent Jaeger and N. Asokan and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)},
  year      = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2021tutorial,
  title     = {Tutorial: Investigating Advanced Exploits for System Security Assurance},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Long Cheng and Hans Liljestrand and N. Asokan and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2021, pp. 3–4},
  year      = {2021}
}

@misc{xiao2021embedding,
  title     = {Embedding Code Contexts for Cryptographic API Suggestion: New Methodologies and Comparisons},
  author    = {Ya Xiao and Salman Ahmed and Wenjia Song and Xinyang Ge and Bimal Viswanath and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  note      = {arXiv:2103.08747},
  year      = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2020aslr,
  title     = {Methodologies for Quantifying (Re-)randomization Security and Timing under JIT-ROP},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Ya Xiao and Gang Tan and Kevin Snow and Fabian Monrose and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'20)},
  year      = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2020poster,
  title     = {Poster: Methodologies for Quantifying (Re-)Randomization Security and Timing under JIT-ROP},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Ya Xiao and Gang Tan and Kevin Snow and Fabian Monrose and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2020},
  year      = {2020}
}

@article{hoque2020v2v,
  title     = {The extent of reliability for vehicle-to-vehicle communication in safety critical applications: an experimental study},
  author    = {Mohammad A. Hoque and Jackeline Rios-Torres and Ramin Arvin and Asad Khattak and Salman Ahmed},
  journal   = {Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 24(3): 264–278},
  year      = {2020}
}

@inproceedings{cheng2019dop,
  title     = {Exploitation Techniques and Defenses for Data-Oriented Attacks},
  author    = {Long Cheng and Hans Liljestrand and Salman Ahmed and Thomas Nyman and Trent Jaeger and N. Asokan and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao},
  booktitle = {IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2019},
  year      = {2019}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2018anti,
  title     = {POSTER: Extracting Anti-specifications from Vulnerabilities for Program Hardening},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao and Haipeng Cai},
  booktitle = {IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2018},
  year      = {2018}
}

@misc{carter2018visualization,
  title     = {Developing Mobility and Traffic Visualization Applications for Connected Vehicles},
  author    = {Noah Carter and Salman Ahmed and Jacob Hoyos and Matthew Dale and JT Blevins and Nick Hodge and Nusrat Chowdhury and Mohammad A. Hoque},
  note      = {arXiv:1811.11012 (technical report)},
  year      = {2018}
}

@article{hoque2018simulator,
  title     = {Parallel Closed-Loop Connected Vehicle Simulator for Large-Scale Transportation Network Management: Challenges, Issues, and Solution Approaches},
  author    = {Mohammad A. Hoque and Xiaoyan Hong and Salman Ahmed},
  journal   = {IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 11(4), 62–77},
  year      = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{carter2018bsm,
  title     = {Simulating Vehicle Movement and Multi-Hop Connectivity from Basic Safety Messages},
  author    = {Noah Carter and Mohammad A. Hoque and Salman Ahmed},
  booktitle = {IEEE SoutheastCon 2018, pp. 1–6},
  year      = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2018freewaytrb,
  title     = {A Cooperative Freeway Merge Assistance System Using Connected Vehicles},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque and Jackeline Rios-Torres and Asad Khattak},
  booktitle = {Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting, 2018},
  year      = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{hoque2018v2v,
  title     = {Impact of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Reliability on Safety Applications: An Experimental Study},
  author    = {Mohammad A. Hoque and Salman Ahmed and Jackeline Rios-Torres and Asad Khattak and Ramin Arvin},
  booktitle = {Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, 2018},
  year      = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2018v2i,
  title     = {Intersection Approach Advisory through Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Using Signal Phase and Timing Information at Signalized Intersection},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque and Asad Khattak},
  booktitle = {Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, 2018},
  year      = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2017freeway,
  title     = {Freeway merge assistance system using DSRC},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque and Jackeline Rios-Torres and Asad Khattak},
  booktitle = {2nd ACM International Workshop on Smart, Autonomous, and Connected Vehicular Systems and Services},
  year      = {2017}
}

@phdthesis{ahmed2017thesis,
  title     = {An Investigation into the Performance Evaluation of Connected Vehicle Applications: From Real-World Experiment to Parallel Simulation Paradigm},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed},
  booktitle = {Dissertation, East Tennessee State University},
  year      = {2017}
}

@article{ahmed2017spmm,
  title     = {Reducing Inter-Process Communication Overhead in Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Jennifer Houser and Mohammad A. Hoque and Rezaul Raju and Phil Pfeiffer},
  journal   = {International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC)},
  year      = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{jordan2017doppler,
  title     = {Poster: Investigating Doppler Effects on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication: An Experimental Study},
  author    = {Dwayne Jordan and Nicholas Kyte and Scott Murray and Mohammad A. Hoque and Salman Ahmed and Asad Khattak},
  booktitle = {Poster, ACM CarSys 2017},
  year      = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2016partition,
  title     = {Partitioning of Urban Transportation Networks Utilizing Real-World Traffic Parameters for Distributed Simulation in SUMO},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque},
  booktitle = {IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2016},
  year      = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2016demo,
  title     = {Demo: Real-time Vehicle Movement Tracking on Android Devices through Bluetooth Communication with DSRC Devices},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque},
  booktitle = {IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2016},
  year      = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{ahmed2016simulators,
  title     = {Comparative study of connected vehicle simulators},
  author    = {Salman Ahmed and Mohammad A. Hoque and Phil Pfeiffer},
  booktitle = {IEEE SoutheastCon 2016},
  year      = {2016}
}