Peer-Reviewed Research

Publications

Work on machine learning for malware and fraud detection, security and privacy in vehicular networks, and from earlier in his career biomaterials engineering.

352

Citations

2024 · Big Data and Cognitive Computing 8(1)

Enhancing credit card fraud detection: an ensemble machine learning approach

AR Khalid, N Owoh, O Uthmani, M Ashawa, J Osamor, J Adejoh

An ensemble approach to catching fraudulent card transactions, combining multiple classifiers to raise detection rates without drowning analysts in false positives.

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Citations

2022 · Computers and Electrical Engineering 102

A novel trust-based security and privacy model for internet of vehicles

MS Rathore, M Poongodi, P Saurabh, UK Lilhore, S Bourouis, et al.

A trust model for connected vehicles, addressing how nodes in a vehicular network establish confidence in one another without surrendering driver privacy.

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Citations

2024 · Electronics 13(20)

Enhanced image-based malware classification using transformer-based convolutional neural networks

M Ashawa, N Owoh, S Hosseinzadeh, J Osamor

Treating malware binaries as images and classifying them with transformer-based convolutional networks, improving on conventional signature and CNN-only pipelines.

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Citations

2024 · Future Internet 16(10)

Malware detection based on API call sequence analysis: a gated recurrent unit–generative adversarial network model approach

N Owoh, J Adejoh, S Hosseinzadeh, M Ashawa, J Osamor, A Qureshi

Reading the sequence of API calls a program makes and pairing a GRU with a GAN to recognise malicious behaviour, including variants the model has not seen before.

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Citations

2017 · ACS Omega 2(6)

Optimization of glutaraldehyde vapor treatment for electrospun collagen/silk tissue engineering scaffolds

B Zhu, W Li, N Chi, RV Lewis, J Osamor, R Wang

Earlier materials-science work on crosslinking electrospun collagen and silk scaffolds — from before the move into security research, and still cited.

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