Elias Bou-Harb

Associate Professor

Contact

ebouharb@lsu.edu
Office 3272Q
Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Educational Background

Postdoctoral Training in empirical cyber security, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada.

MASc. in Information Systems Security, Concordia University, Canada.

BASc. in Computer Science, Notre Dame University, Lebanon.

Elias Bou-Harb

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CSC 2362: Intro to Cybersecurity and Defense
CSC 4501: Computer Networks

Operational cyber security
Cyber forensics
Critical infrastructure security
Empirical Data analytics,
Digital investigation
Network Security
Network Management

Manuel, D., Islam, N. T., Khoury, J., Nunez, A., Bou-Harb, E., & Najafirad, P. (2024). Enhancing Reverse Engineering: Investigating and Benchmarking Large Language Models for Vulnerability Analysis in Decompiled Binaries. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04981.
AlSabeh, A., Friday, K., Kfoury, E., Crichigno, J., & Bou-Harb, E. (2024). On dga detection and classification using p4 programmable switches. Computers & Security, 145, 104007.
Torabi, S., Klisura, D., Khoury, J., Bou-Harb, E., Assi, C., & Debbabi, M. (2024). Internet-Wide Analysis, Characterization, and Family Attribution of IoT Malware: A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Islam, N. T., Khoury, J., Seong, A., Bou-Harb, E., & Najafirad, P. (2024). Enhancing Source Code Security with LLMs: Demystifying The Challenges and Generating Reliable Repairs. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00571.
Friday, K., & Bou-Harb, E. (2024, August). Accelerating Ransomware Defenses with Computational Storage Drive-Based API Call Sequence Classification. In Proceedings of the 17th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop (pp. 8-16).
Gharaibeh, T., Seiden, S., Abouelsaoud, M., Bou-Harb, E., & Baggili, I. (2024, July). Don't, Stop, Drop, Pause: Forensics of CONtainer CheckPOINTs (ConPoint). In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (pp. 1-11).
Tieby, N., Khoury, J., & Bou-Harb, E. (2024, June). Characterizing and analyzing leo satellite cyber landscape: A starlink case study. In ICC 2024-IEEE International Conference on Communications (pp. 1352-1357). IEEE.
Khoury, J., Nader, C., Pour, M. S., & Bou-Harb, E. (2024). An Internet-Scale Data-Driven Approach for Exploring Cyber Threats Amid Global Conflicts. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
Friday, K., Bou-Harb, E., Lee, R., Peethambaran, P., & Saxena, M. (2024, June). Empowering Data Centers with Computational Storage Drive-Based Deep Learning Inference Functionality to Combat Ransomware. In 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S) (pp. 125-132). IEEE.
Khoury, J., Nader, C., Pour, M. S., & Bou-Harb, E. (2024, June). Exploring Internet-Scale Data-Driven Intelligence: Empirical Analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops) (pp. 896-901). IEEE.

2024: UT System-wide Distinguished Research Award, Texas
2023: University-wide Service Award for Center Leadership, UTSA
2021/2022: Sole Recipient of All UTSA’s Faculty Research Award
2020: Named the Recipient of UTSA College of Business Col. Jean Piccione and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Faculty Award for Research Excellence
2020: Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
2019: Sole Recipient of the Junior, Faculty-wide, Research Award, FAU
2015-2023: Six Best Conference Research Paper Awards
2016: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF): Top .5% of all Canadian Computer Science Ph.D. Students
2015: Fonds de recherche du Québec - Fellowship, Ranked 1st in the province of Quebec

2024: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: Collaborative Research: CISE MSI: RPEP: OAC: Macroscopic and Microscopic Inference and Analysis of Vulnerabilities within EV Charging-Management Systems, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $369,998.
2024: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: OAC Core: Enhancing Network Security by Implementing an ML Malware Detection and Classification Scheme in P4 Programmable Data Planes and SmartNICs, Co-PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $599,999.
2023: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Cross-Disciplinary Training for Joint Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT Security, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $383,953.
2023: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: OAC Core: Data-driven Methods and Techniques For Protecting Research and Critical Cyberinfrastructure By Characterizing and Defending Against Ransomware, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $481,693.
2023: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: Cross-Disciplinary Training for Joint Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT Security, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $399,493.
2021: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: OAC Core: Data-driven Methods and Techniques For Protecting Research and Critical Cyberinfrastructure By Characterizing and Defending Against Ransomware, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $500,000.
2019: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: CRII: OAC: Inferring, Attributing, Mitigating and Analyzing the Malicious Orchestration of Internet-scale Exploited IoT Devices: A Network Telescope Approach, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $111,831.
2019: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: OAC Core: Small: Devising Data-driven Methodologies by Employing Large-scale Empirical Data to Fingerprint, Attribute, Remediate and Analyze Internet-scale IoT Maliciousness, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $496,898.
2018: Source: National Science Foundation (NSF), Title: CRII: OAC: Inferring, Attributing, Mitigating and Analyzing the Malicious Orchestration of Internet-scale Exploited IoT Devices: A Network Telescope Approach, PI: Elias Bou-Harb, $175,000.