Publications

Book chapters

1. Secrecy of edge caching
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   Chapter 8 in Edge caching for mobile networks
   Editors: V. Poor and W. Chen, The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2021.
2. MIMO Wiretap Channels
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   Chapter 6 in Information Theoretic Security and Privacy of Information Systems
   Editors: R. Schaefer, H. Boche, A. Khisti, and V. Poor, Cambridge Univ. Press 2017.

Journal articles

Preprint:

1. Causal Discovery in Linear Models with Unobserved Variables and Measurement Error.
   Y. Yang, M. Nafea, N. Kiyavash, K. Zhang, A. Ghassami, 2024.
2. Information theoretic measures for fairness-aware feature selection
   S. Khodadadian, M. Nafea, A. Ghassami, N. Kiyavash, 2021

Published:

1. Coded caching in presence of a wire and cache tapping adversary of type II
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT), 2(1), pp. 65-81, Mar. 2021.
2. Generalizing multiple access wiretap and wiretap II channel models: Achievable rates and cost of strong secrecy
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, 65(8), pp. 5125-5143, Aug. 2019.
3. A new wiretap channel model and its strong secrecy capacity
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, 64(3), pp. 2077-2092, Mar. 2018.
4. Secure degrees of freedom for the MIMO wire-tap channel with a multi-antenna cooperative jammer
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, 63(11), pp.7420-7441, Nov. 2017.
5. Using social sensors for influence propagation in networks with positive and negative relationships
   B. Guler, B. Varan, K. Tutuncuoglu, M. Nafea, A. Zewail, A. Yener, and D. Octeau
   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Signal Processing for Situational Awareness from Networked Sensors and Social Media, 9(2), pp. 360-373, Mar. 2015.

Conference papers

1. Causal Discovery in Linear Models with Unobserved Variables and Measurement Error.
   Y. Yang, M. Nafea, N. Kiyavash, K. Zhang, A. Ghassami, 2024.
   Accepted for presentation at the Causal Representation Learning workshop at the 2024 Neural Information Processing Conference (CRL@NeurIPS24)
2. Hierarchical Attention Network for Interpretable ECG-basedHeart Disease Classification
   M. Rodriguez and M. Nafea.
   Submitted to the 2025 IEEE Symposia on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine (IEEE CIHM), Sep. 2024.
3. Centralized and Federated Heart Disease Classification ModelsUsing UCI Dataset and their Shapley-value Based Interpretability
   M. Rodriguez and M. Nafea
   Accepted for publication in the 8th ACM International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI), 2024.
4. Causal discovery in linear latent variable models subject to measurement error
   Y. Yang, A. Ghassami, M. Nafea, N. Kiyavash, K. Zhang, I. Shpitser
   36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2022.
5. Proportional fair clustered federated learning
   M. Nafea, E. Shin, and A. Yener
   IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2022.
6. Causal discovery in linear structural causal models with deterministic relations
   Y. Yang, M. Nafea, A. Ghassami, and N. Kiyavash
   First Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR), Apr. 2022.
7. Secure communication in a multi-antenna wiretap channel with an intelligent reflecting surface
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Sep. 2021.
8. The caching broadcast channel with a wire and cache tapping adversary of type II
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Nov. 2018.
9. The caching broadcast channel with a wire and cache tapping adversary of type II: Multiple Library Files
   M. Nafea and A. Yener
   Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2018.
10. A new broadcast wiretap channel model
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2017.
11. New models for interference and broadcast channels with confidential messages
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2017.
12. A new multiple access wiretap channel model
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Sep. 2016..
13. The multiple access wiretap channel II with a noisy main channel
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jul. 2016.
14. A New Wiretap Channel Model and Its Strong Secrecy Capacity
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jul. 2016.
15. Wiretap Channel II with a Noisy Main Channel
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2015.
16. Secure Degrees of Freedom of N × N × M Wiretap Channel with a K-Antenna Cooperative Jammer
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC), Jun. 2015.
17. Communicating in a Socially-Aware Network: Impact of Relationship Types
    B. Guler, B. Varan, K. Tutuncuoglu, M. Nafea, A. Zewail, A. Yener and D. Octeau
    IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Symposium on Network Theory, Dec. 2014.
18. Multi-terminal networks with an untrusted relay
    A. Zewail, M. Nafea and Aylin Yener
    Allerton’s Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2014.
19. Optimal Strategies for Targeted Influence in Signed Networks
    B. Guler, B. Varan, K. Tutuncuoglu, M. Nafea, A. Zewail, A. Yener and D. Octeau
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Aug. 2014.
20. Secure Degrees of Freedom for the MIMO Wiretap Channel with a Multiantenna Cooperative Jammer
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Nov. 2014.
21. Degrees of Freedom of the Single Antenna Gaussian Wiretap Channel with a Helper Irrespective of the Number of Antennas at the Eavesdropper
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Dec. 2013.
22. How many antennas does a cooperative jammer need for achieving the degrees of freedom of multiple antenna Gaussian channels in the presence of an eavesdropper?
    M. Nafea and A. Yener
    Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2013.
23. On the ARQ protocols over the z-interference channels: Diversity-multiplexing-delay tradeof
    M. Nafea, D. Hamza, K. G. Seddik, M. Nafie and H. El Gamal
    IEEE International Symposium in Information Theory (ISIT), Jul. 2012.
24. On the diversity gain region of the z-interference channels
    M. Nafea, K. G. Seddik, M. Nafie and H. El Gamal
    IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC), Jun. 2012.

Class papers

1. A Temporal and contextual deep learning intrusion detection system for securing intra-vehicle networks.
   S. Bayan, M. Mokhadder, U. Mohammad, M. Nafea
   International Conference on Security & Management(SAM), Jul. 2022.