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Mai Abdelhakim

Assistant Professor
MAIA@pitt.edu
(412) 383-5767
Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Dr. Mai Abdelhakim is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD in electrical engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electronics and communications engineering from Cairo University. Her research interests include cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, and reliable decision-making under uncertainty. Her research leverages stochastic analysis, information theory, and machine learning to model and design reliable, secure, and efficient IoT-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). She is currently a senior member of the IEEE. She received the University of Pittsburgh’s Innovation in Education award in 2023. Dr. Abdelhakim has been Associate Editor of IET Communications since January 2023.

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PhD, Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University

MSc, Communications Engineering, Cairo University

Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cairo University

Karimi, L., Aldairi, M., Joshi, J., & Abdelhakim, M. (2022). An Automatic Attribute-Based Access Control Policy Extraction From Access Logs. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, 19(4), 2304-2317.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3054331.

Alotibi, F., & Abdelhakim, M. (2021). Anomaly Detection for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control in Autonomous Vehicles Using Statistical Learning and Kinematic Model. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 22(6), 3468-3478.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TITS.2020.2983392.

Abdelhakim, A., Saleh, H.I., & Abdelhakim, M. (2019). Fragile watermarking for image tamper detection and localization with effective recovery capability using K-means clustering. MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 78(22), 32523-32563.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s11042-019-07986-3.

Abdelhakim, A.M., & Abdelhakim, M. (2018). A time-efficient optimization for robust image watermarking using machine learning. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 100, 197-210.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.02.002.

Liu, X., Abdelhakim, M., Krishnamurthy, P., & Tipper, D. (2018). Identifying malicious nodes in multihop iot networks using dual link technologies and unsupervised learning. Open Journal of Internet of Things, 4(1), 109-124.RonPub.

Abdelhakim, M., Liang, Y., & Li, T. (2017). Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks-Design and Analysis. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS, 3(1), 172-186.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TSIPN.2016.2601021.

Abdelhakim, M., Liang, Y., & Li, T. (2016). Mobile Coordinated Wireless Sensor Network: An Energy Efficient Scheme for Real-Time Transmissions. IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, 34(5), 1663-1675.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2545383.

Abdelhakim, M., Fang, Z., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2015). Hybrid mobile access coordinated wireless sensor networks — Design and analysis. 2015 IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), 453-457.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/chinasip.2015.7230443.

Abdelhakim, M., Lightfoot, L., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2015). Reliable Communications over Multihop Networks under Routing Attacks. 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocom.2015.7417404.

Abdelhakim, M., Lightfoot, L.E., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2014). Distributed Detection in Mobile Access Wireless Sensor Networks under Byzantine Attacks. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, 25(4), 950-959.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.74.

Abdelhakim, M., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2014). Throughput analysis and routing security discussions of mobile access coordinated wireless sensor networks. 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 4616-4621.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocom.2014.7037536.

Alahmadi, A., Abdelhakim, M., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2014). Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption Standard. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, 9(5), 772-781.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2310355.

Li, T., Abdelhakim, M., & Ren, J. (2014). N-HOP NETWORKS: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS. IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, 21(2), 98-105.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/MWC.2014.6812297.

Abdelhakim, M., Lightfoot, L.E., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2013). Architecture design of mobile access coordinated wireless sensor networks. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 1720-1724.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icc.2013.6654766.

Abdelhakim, M., Nafie, M., Shalash, A., & Elezabi, A. (2013). Adaptive Bit Loading and Puncturing Using Long Single Codewords in OFDM Systems. WIRELESS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, 71(2), 1557-1576.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s11277-012-0892-z.

Abdelhakim, M., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2013). Mobile access coordinated wireless sensor networks — Topology design and throughput analysis. 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 4627-4632.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocomw.2013.6855681.

Alahmadi, A., Abdelhakim, M., Jian Ren, & Tongtong Li. (2013). Mitigating primary user emulation attacks in cognitive radio networks using advanced encryption standard. 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 3229-3234.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocom.2013.6831569.

Abdelhakim, M., Jian Ren, & Tongtong Li. (2012). Reliable OFDM system design under hostile multi-tone jamming. 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 4290-4295.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocom.2012.6503792.

Abdelhakim, M., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2012). Reliable Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, 7405 LNCS, 206-217.Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31869-6_18.

Abdelhakim, M., Lightfoot, L.E., & Li, T. (2011). Reliable data fusion in wireless sensor networks under Byzantine attacks. 2011 - MILCOM 2011 Military Communications Conference, 810-815.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/milcom.2011.6127777.

Abdelhakim, M., Zhang, L., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2011). Cooperative sensing in cognitive networks under malicious attack. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 3004-3007.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icassp.2011.5946290.

Abdelhakim, M., Nafie, M., Shalash, A., & Elezabi, A.Y. (2009). Adaptive Puncturing for Coded OFDMA Systems. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-5.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icc.2009.5198706.

Abdelhakim, M., Nafie, M., Shalash, A., & Elezabi, A.Y. (2009). Adaptive Puncturing and Rate Selection in Single-Codeword Turbo-Coded OFDMA. 2009 IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium, 174-179.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/mws.2009.31.

Akhuseyinoglu, N.B., Karimi, M., Abdelhakim, M., & Krishnamurthy, P. (2020). On Automated Trust Computation in IoT with Multiple Attributes and Subjective Logic. In 2020 IEEE 45th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2020-November, (pp. 267-278).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/lcn48667.2020.9314808.

Alotibi, F., & Abdelhakim, M. (2019). Anomaly Detection in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Using Physics Laws and Data Fusion. In 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), 2019-September.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vtcfall.2019.8891165.

Abdelhakim, M., Liu, X., & Krishnamurthy, P. (2018). Diversity for Detecting Routing Attacks in Multihop Networks. In 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), (pp. 712-717).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iccnc.2018.8390382.

Liu, X., Abdelhakim, M., Krishnamurthy, P., & Tipper, D. (2018). Identifying Malicious Nodes in Multihop IoT Networks Using Diversity and Unsupervised Learning. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018-May.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icc.2018.8422484.

Abdelhakim, M., Lightfoot, L., Ren, J., & Li, T. (2014). Reliable Communications over Multihop Networks under Routing Attacks. In 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/glocom.2014.7417404.

Research interests

Internet of Things (IoT),...
IoT Security
Machine learning
Stochastic systems modeling and...
Wireless communications and...