Program

WiseML 2025 will take place on July 3. All times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The workshop is single-track, and all sessions will be held in the main conference space (Room 1311) of the Fuse Building. Presentation slots are 20 minutes, including Q&A.

Thursday 3 July

EDT
08:30 Welcome
09:00 Keynote: Security and Privacy of Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Kai Zeng, George Mason University
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 1 (Chair: Shangqing Zhao)
ML based attack and detection
  • ReaperPulse: A Targeted Energy-Efficient Control Channel Jamming in 5G
    Mahmudul Hassan Ashik, Moinul Hossain (George Mason University)
  • AttentionGuard: Transformer-based Misbehavior Detection for Secure Vehicular Platoons
    Hexu Li, Konstantinos Kalogiannis, Ahmed Hussain, Panos Papadimitratos (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Leveraging LLM to Strengthen ML-Based Cross-Site Scripting Detection
    Dennis Miczek, Divyesh Gabbireddy, Suman Saha (Pennsylvania State University)
  • The Dual Role of Large Language Models in Network Security: Survey and Research Trends
    Haiyun Liu, Jiahao Xue, Yao Liu, Zhuo Lu (University of South Florida), Shangqing Zhao (University of Oklahoma)
12:10 Working Lunch
12:30 Invited Talk: From Signals to Strategy: DoD Perspectives on Machine Learning in Wireless and Spectrum Security
Sastry Kompella, Nexcepta, Inc.
13:30 Break
14:00 Session 2 (Chair: Tugba Erpek)
Federated Learning and Reinforcement Learning
  • Distributed Federated Learning for Vehicular Network Security: Anomaly Detection Benefits and Multi-Domain Attack Threats
    Utku Demir, Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Hossein Jafari, Sastry Kompella (Nexcepta, Inc.), Mengran Xue (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
  • Fingerprinting Deep Learning Models via Network Traffic Patterns in Federated Learning
    MD Nahid Hasan Shuvo, Moinul Hossain (George Mason University)
  • MuJam-RIS: A DRL Approach for Selective Multi-User Jamming Powered by RIS and Spatial-CSI
    Subham Sabud, Suman Banerjee, Feng Ye (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Haijian Sun (University of Georgia)
  • Vulnerabilities Caused by Metric-based Policies in Reinforcement Learning Based Covert Communication Under Steering Attack
    Alyse Jones (Virginia Tech National Security Institute), Maice Costa (Nexcepta)
15:40 End of Workshop