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Mohd Anwar

Professor

Mohd Anwar
College
College of Engineering

Department
Computer Science

Contact
Martin Complex 330
Education
Ph.D.Computer Science / University of Saskatchewan
M.S.Computer Science / North Dakota State University
B.S.Computer Science / Winona State University

Bio

Dr. Anwar is a full Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Quantum Computing Research Center at North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Anwar’s expertise and research interests are in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence as applies to cybersecurity and healthcare. His contributions to cybersecurity include intrusion detection, continuous authentication, mobile malware detection, cybersecurity analytics, human factors and behavioral aspect of cybersecurity. He maintains a strong second research stream in smart and connected health, exploring areas of health behavior monitoring, digital epidemiology, and health risk assessment. His research has been funded by NSF, Air Force, DoD, NIH, NSA, and EPA.

Research Interests

Cybersecurity, mHealth, Social Computing, Human Factors, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing

External URL

anwar.ncat.edu

Recent Publications

  • May Almousa, Mohd Anwar (2023). (A URL-Based Social Semantic Attacks Detection With Character-Aware Language Model). 11, IEEE Access.
  • Xuyang Yan, Shabnam Nazmi, Biniam Gebru, Mohd Anwar, Abdollah Homaifar, Mrinmoy Sarkar, Kishor Gupta (2022). (A clustering-based Active Learning Method to Query Informative and Representative Samples). (11) 52, Springer Applied Intelligence.
  • Arvav Jhala, Yang Cheng, Jean Goodwin, Munindar Singh, Mohd Anwar, Lauren Davis, Steven Jiang, Anna Lee, Younho Seong, Siobahn Grady, Deepak Kumar, Tianduo Zhang (2022). (A Digital Communication Twin for Addressing Misinformation: Vision, Challenges, Opportunities ). (2) 36, pp. 36--41. IEEE Internet Computing.
  • Imano Williams, Xiaohong Yuan, Mohd Anwar, J Todd McDonald (2022). (Automating the Identification of Security Concerns in Use Cases Models: An Ontology-Driven Recommender System Approach). Springer Automated Software Engineering.
  • Nyteisha Bookert, Weston Bondurant, Mohd Anwar (2022). (Data Practices of Internet of Medical Things: A Look from Privacy Policy Perspectives). 23, Elsevier Smart Health Journal.
  • Steve King , Hossein Sarrafzadeh, Mohd Anwar, Tonya Amankwatia (2022). (Making the Cybersecurity Skills Case for Educational Technology Implementations). pp. 13--24. Large-Scale Technology Implementation Stories to Inspire Change.
  • Xuyang Yan, Shabnam Nazmi, Biniam Gebru, Mohd Anwar, Abdollah Homaifar, Mrinmoy Sarkar, Kishor Gupta (2022). (Mitigating shortage of labeled data using clustering-based active learning with diversity exploration). arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02964.
  • May Almousa, Tianyang Zhang, Hossein Sarrafzadeh, Mohd Anwar (2022). (Phishing website detection: How effective are deep learning‐based models and hyperparameter optimization?). (6) 5, Wiley Security and Privacy.
  • Abeer Aljuaid, Mohd Anwar (2022). (Survey of Supervised Learning for Medical Image Processing). (4) 3, pp. 1-22. Springer.
  • James Brown, Mohd Anwar, (2021). Blacksite: human-in-the-loop artificial immune system for intrusion detection in internet of things. Springer Human-Intelligent Systems Integration, 3(1), 55-67.

  • Seyyedpooya Hekmatiathar , Hilda Goins, Raymond Samuel , Grace Byfield , Mohd Anwar, (2021). Data-Driven Forecasting of Agitation for Persons with Dementia: A Deep Learning-based Approach. Springer Computer Science.
  • Mohd Anwar, Hilda Goins, Tianyang Zhang, X Dai (2021). (Human Elements in Machine Learning-based Solutions to Cybersecurity). In Abbas Moallem, (Smart and Intelligent Systems: The Human Elements in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Cybersecurity) Taylor & Francis.
  • Dalia Khoury, Alexander Preiss, Paul Geigera, Mohd Anwar, Kevin Conway, (2021). Increases in Naloxone Administrations by Emergency Medical Services Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Time-Series Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 

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  • Yang Liu, Christopher Whitfield, Mohd Anwar (2021). (Monitoring COVID-19 Pandemic through the Lens of Social Media using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning). (25) 9, pp. 16. Springer Health Information Science and Systems.
  • Shabnam Nazmi, Xuyang Yan, Abdollah Homaifar, Mohd Anwar (2021). (Multi-label Classification with Local Pairwise and High-order Label Correlations using Graph Partitioning). 233, Elsevier Knowledge-based Systems.
  • Mohd Anwar (2020). (Supporting Privacy, Trust, and Personalization in Online Learning). International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Springer.
  • Mohd Anwar, Dalia Khoury , Arnie Aldridge, Stephanie Parker, Kevin Conway (2020). (Using Twitter to surveil the opioid epidemic in North Carolina). Journal of Medical Internet Search (JMIR).
  • Brittany Davis , Janelle Mason, Mohd Anwar, (2020). Vulnerability Studies and Security Postures of IoT Devices: A Smart Home Case Study. IEEE Internet of Things Journal .
  • , , Mohd Anwar (2019). (Cyber-based Design for Additive Manufacturing Using Artificial Neural Networks for Industry 4.0). pp. 1--21. International Journal of Production Research, Taylor Francis.
  • Wu He, Ivan Ash, Mohd Anwar (2019). (Improving employees’ intellectual capacity for cybersecurity through evidence-based malware training). Journal of Intellectual Capital.
  • Ling Li, Wu He, Li Xu, Ash Ivan, Mohd Anwar, Xiaohong Yuan (2019). (Investigating the Impact of Cybersecurity Policy Awareness on Employees’ Cybersecurity Behavior). (International Journal of Information Management) 45, pp. 13--24. Elsevier International Journal of Information Management.
  • Mohd Anwar, Peter Brusilovsky (2019). (Privacy and Territoriality Issues in an Online Social Learning Portal). (Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications) pp. 675-693. IGI Global.
  • James Brown, Mohd Anwar, Gerry Dozier (2017). (An artificial Immunity Approach to Malware Detection in a Mobile Platform). (Springer Journal on Information Security (EURASIP)) Elsevier Computers & Security.
  • Mohd Anwar (2017). (Privacy and Territoriality Issues in an Online Social Learning Portal). (1) 11, Journal of Information Security & Privacy.
  • Mohd Anwar, Wu He, Ivan Ash, Xiaohong Yuan, Lin Li, Lin Xu (2016). (Gender Difference and Employees' Cybersecurity Behaviors ). 69, pp. 437-443. Elsevier Journal of Computers in Human Behavior.
  • Mohd Anwar, Peter Brusilovsky (2016). (Privacy and Territoriality Issues in an Online Social Learning Portal). (1) 11, pp. 17. International Journal of Information Security & Privacy.
  • Olanya Modesto, Mohd Anwar, Zhongqi He, Robert Larkin, Charles Honeycutt (2016). (Survival Potential of Phytophthora Infestans Sporangia in Relation to Environmental Factors and Late Blight Occurrence). (1) 56, Journal of Plant Protection Research.
  • Mohd Anwar (2015). (Anytime, anywhere access to secure, privacy-aware healthcare services: Issues, approaches and challenges). (Elsevier Health Policy & Technology) Elsevier.
  • Mohd Anwar, Christopher Doss (2015). (Lighting the Mobile Information FHIR: How FHIRframe Could Dramatically Improve Mobile Health and Change HIM in the Process). Journal of American Health Information Management Association.
  • Mohd Anwar (2013). (Automatic Evaluation of Information Provider Reliability and Expertise). World Wide Web Journal.
  • Mohd Anwar (2013). (Mutual-friend based attacks in social network systems). (1) 37, Elsevier Computers & Security.
  • Mohd Anwar (2013). (Privacy and Security in Location-Based Services). Advances in Location-Based Computing and Services. Taylor & Francis.
  • Dalia Khoury, Alexander Preiss, Paul Geigera, Mohd Anwar, Kevin Conway, (2021). Increases in Naloxone Administrations by Emergency Medical Services Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Time-Series Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.