Dr. Ali Chehab

Ali Chehab is a Professor and Chair of the ECE Department at AUB. His research advances trustworthy AI, cybersecurity, and intelligent cloud-edge architectures, with significant contributions to AI-driven healthcare systems, including medical imaging analytics, predictive modeling, and privacy-aware clinical AI solutions. His work integrates machine learning, system resilience, and data governance to ensure that healthcare AI systems are accurate, secure, and deployable in real-world environments. He has led funded research projects and supervised graduate research at the intersection of AI, Medicine, and Cybersecurity.

“Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists Worldwide”

— Elsevier, 2025

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Book Chapters

Total Publications

Citations

Last updated: February 23, 2026

Awards & Recognitions

Special Recognition and Mention of Leadership in Cyber Security Research Quality and Impact in the Arab Region

Communications of the ACM · 2021

Excellent Paper Award

International Conference on AI in Information and Communication (ICAIIC)
February 18-21, 2025

Best Paper Award

International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WINSYS)
July 8-10, 2020

Best Paper Award

15th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) (Tangier, Morocco)
June 24-28, 2019

Best Paper Award

IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Mobile Computing (FMEC) (Valencia, Spain)
May 8-11, 2017

Best Paper Award

International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) (Santa Clara, CA, USA)
March 3-5, 2014

Service & Associations

Professional Associations

Senior Member, IEEE
Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, IEEE Computer Society
Member, Order of Engineers, Beirut, Lebanon

Conference Organization

Promotion & Tenure Review
ECE Department - Rochester Institute of Technology (Dec. 2024)
Co-Chair
IoT & Sensor Networks Symposium, ICC 2021
General Co-Chair
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2018)
Co-Chair
Reputation, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-How (TRECK 2014)
Track Chair
Mobile & Cloud Computing, ICCIT 2013

Journal Reviews

Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Years: 2019, 2018
IEEE Access
Years: 2019
Journal of Computer Networks
Years: 2019
Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology
Years: 2019
Future Generation Computer Systems
Years: 2019
International Journal of Communication Systems
Years: 2019
IEEE Transactions on VLSI
Years: 2012, 2015, 2016
Applied Mathematical Modelling (Elsevier)
Years: 2012
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Years: 2011
International Journal of Network Security
Years: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Years: 2008
Electronics Letters
Years: 2007, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
Years: 2007
IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems
Years: 2007
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)
Years: 2005
International Journal on Education
Years: 2003
International Journal on Engineering Education
Years: 2003

Book Reviews

Thermal Aware Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits and Systems
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 2017
Book Proposal on C#
Authors: Bell and Parr
Publisher: Pearson Education
Date: September 2002

Technical Program Committee Member

WINSYS 2020 SDS 2021 SDS 2020 SDS 2019 TRECK 2016 TRECK 2015 ICC 2014 ICC 2012 ICC 2011 ICC 2010 ICC 2009 MELECON 2014 IDT 2006-2014 IWCMC 2013 IWCMC 2011 IWCMC 2010 IIT 2013 IIT 2008 IIT 2007 IIT 2006 IIT 2005 IIT 2004 GLOBECOM 2012 GLOBECOM 2009 GLOBECOM 2008 ICT 2012 ICECS 2011 ICECS 2008 ICECS 2006 MIC-CCA 2008 DTIS 2009 M-WCMC 2007

Conference Paper Reviews

ICITST 2011 ACC 2011 ICP 2009 SETIT 2009 CAT 2008 SAC 2008 Prime 2007

Research Supervision

20 Phd Students

Current

Fatima Fneich

AI for Medicine

Current

Ahmad Mustapha

AI for Imaging

Current

Fatima Nasser

AI for Medicine

Current

Hadi Hassan

AI for Medicine

Current

Razan El Mais

Privacy & Security

Dec. 2025

Fouad Trad

From Traditional ML to LLMs for Advancing Cybersecurity in Dynamic Environments

Feb. 2025

Ahmad Sattout

Defense Mechanisms for Mitigating Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Traffic Signs Recognition of Autonomous Driving Cars

April 2021

Louma Chaddad

Thwarting Traffic Classification for Privacy Preservation

Oct. 2020

Basma Hajri

Design and Optimization of Low-Power Embedded Resistive Memory (RRAM)

Aug. 2020

Reem Melki

Designing Physical Layer Security Solutions for Emerging Communication Systems in 5G Networks

July 2020

Asmaa Abdallah

Interference Mitigation in 5G Network Densification Technologies: Algorithms and Performance limits

July 2020

Saleh Usman

Optimized ASIC Accelerator Chips for LDPC Decoders by Joint Algorithm, Architecture, and Circuit Co-Design

Feb. 2020

Ola Salman

Machine Learning for Internet Traffic Classification

Jan. 2020

Ali Hussein

Machine Learning for Network Resilience

Jan. 2020

Sarah Abdallah

On Centralized and Distributed Control of Communication Networks

Sep. 2018

Farah Saab

Crowdsourcing for Mobile Security: Modelling, Psychological Bias, and Performance of Aggregation Methods

July 2018

Maha Shamseddine

Service Provisioning in Virtualized and Programmable Network Environments

March 2018

Hadi Sarieddine

Large Multiuser MIMO Detection: Algorithms and Architectures

Feb. 2015

Ayman Tajeddine

Reputation-Based Trust Model for Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Feb. 2012

Wassim Itani

Challenges and Solutions for Security and Service Collaboration in the Cloud

66 Master Students

Current

Ali Jaafar

AI for Cybersecurity

Current

Mohamad Zahwe

AI for Imaging

Current

Ayman Kanso

AI for Cybersecurity

Current

Mariam Obeid (USJ)

AI for Cybersecurity

Current

Zahraa Hussein (CS)

Self-Healing Cloud and Edge Devices

Current

Zeina Eldika

AI for Medicine

Current

Noha Faour

AI for Medicine

Current

Jihad Katerji

AI for Medicine

Current

Ola Sadek

AI for Medicine

Current

Anthony Saab

AI for Cybersecurity

Current

Ali Sahili

AI Security

Current

Nour El Khatib

AI for Medicine

Current

Nour Fakih

Hardware Security

Current

Zeina Kojok

AI for Medicine

2025

Silvana Yakhni

Bridging Cultures: Harnessing Large Language Models for Translation of Lebanese Dialect

2024

Fatima Nasser

Accelerating Umbrella Reviews Via Natural Language Processing

2024

Ali Moustafa

ML for Analyzing Logs of Security Operating Center

2024

Ibrahim El-Didi

Enhancing Network Security Through Deep Learning

2024

Hussein Fardoun

Enhancing AI-Based Intrusion Detection via Generative Adversarial Networks

2023

Rim Cherri

Utilizing Transfer Learning for Vertebral Fractures Detection

2022

Hadi Abdel Ghani

Artificial Intelligence for Security of IoT Devices

2021

Hussein Kaheel

AI-Based Medical Image Analysis for Early COVID-19 Detection

2020

Mahdi Chehimi

Physical Layer for Combating Jammers and Eavesdroppers

2020

Iman Dernayka

Blockchain Development Platforms: Performance Comparison

2020

Ramzi Sabra

Robustness Guided Verification

2017

Georgi Ajaeiya

Network Traffic Classification and Novelty Detection for Mobile Apps

2017

Serove Awedikian

Hardware Design and Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography

2016

Nareg Adalian

IPSEC Scalability: Network Design

2016

Riwa Mouawi

Assessment of In-app Ads Security Vulnerabilities and Resource Consumption

2016

Hrant Sulahian

A Smart Resource Allocation Algorithm for D2D Communications in Cellular Networks

2016

Vahe Seferian

An Identity Based Security Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructure

2015

Joseph Loutfi

Modeling Diameter Protocol in LTE Environment

2015

Khaled Bakhit

Dagger: Distributed Architecture for Granular Mitigation of Mobile Based Attacks

2014

Louma Chaddad

Data Center Design with Autonomic Power-Aware Workload Allocation

2014

Lama Shaer

Optimal VLSI Architecture for 2x2 MIMO Detector

2014

Sarah Abdallah

Low Power Stochastic SIMD Hardware for Error Tolerant Applications

2013

Imad Sargi

The Effects of Smartphones Signaling on LTE Backbone

2013

Farah Saab

Energy Efficient Motion Estimation Using Stochastic Processing for Video Conferencing Applications

2013

Naoum Sayegh

SCADA Vulnerability Assessment and Attacks Detection

2013

Khodor Hamandi

Application-Based User and Telecom Targeted Attacks on Android-Based Smartphones: Applicability, Detection and Mitigation

2013

Alain Haddad

MEMS Sensor for Low Frequency Vibration Detection

2012

Salwa Adriana Saab

Secure Mobile Application Partitioning In Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing

2012

Alaa Atassi

Intrusion detection for SCADA and BMS

2012

Ramzi Bassil

The Effects of Signaling and Resource Reservation Attacks on LTE Networks

2012

Faisal Hamady

Scalable low power computing via scheduling on subsets of multicore processors

2010

Soulaf Saab

Delay-Tolerant Networks: Secure Communications in The Presence of Oppressive Governments

2010

Cesar Ghali

CATRAC: A Context Aware Trust-based and Role-based Access Control for Composite Web Services

2010

Saleem Wehbe

Security and Privacy for Low-Cost RFID Tags

2009

Mounira Sayour

Secure_Script: A Client and Server Collaborative System to Protect against JavaScript-Based Attacks

2008

Hoda Daou

RFID Security Protocols

2008

Rima Deghaili

Trust-Privacy Tradeoffs in Distributed Computing

2008

Batoul Haidar

Host Protection in Grid Computing

2007

Zein Radwan

XPRIDE Firewall: Policy-Driven Content-Based Web Services Firewall

2007

Layla Khoury

Implementing and Evaluating an Authentication Mechanism and Key Agreement Protocol for SIP that Uses Identity-based Cryptography

2007

Lara Srour

Security, Personalization and Trust in Distributed File Sharing Networks and Centralized Search Engines

2006

Camille Gaspard

PRIDE – Policy-Driven WEB Security for Handheld Wireless Devices

2005

Anis Nazer

Evaluation of Dynamic Current Testing for CMOS Domino Circuits

2005

Mohamad Eid

ADMIDS - Adaptive and Defense Mobile Agent Based Intrusion Detection System

2005

Alaa Dalghan

WISEC: VPN over WLAN 802.11. Design and Implementation of a Secure Virtual Wireless Environment

2005

Yasser Shaer

Secure Range Extensions in IEEE 802.11i

2005

Rania Wehbe

SERVEN: Secure Routing and Protection of Security Mechanisms in Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) Networks

2005

Ruba Kaissi

DAWWSEN: A Defense Mechanism Against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

2005

Elias Nahra

TRUMMAR Optimization and Implementation on Wide Scale Networks

2005

Ayman Tajeddine

PATROL-F – A Comprehensive Reputation-Based Trust Model with Fuzzy Subsystems

2004

Samer Hanna

Lighter Weight Mobile Agent System

2004

Ghada Derbas

TRUMMAR - A Trust Model for Mobile Agent Systems based on Reputation