Diksha Goel

Publications

For an updated list of publications, visit my Google Scholar profile.

2025
  • Diksha Goel, Hong Shen, Hui Tian, Mingyu Guo. "Tracking Top-k Structural Hole Spanners in Dynamic Networks." Cluster Computing, 2025 (Impact Factor: 3.6). Link
  • Minjune Kim, Jeff Wang, Kristen Moore, Diksha Goel, Derui Wang, Ahmad Mohsin, Ahmed Ibrahim, Robin Doss, Seyit Camtepe, Helge Janicke, "CyberAlly: Leveraging LLMs and Knowledge Graphs to Empower Cyber Defenders." ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW'25) (CORE A*). Link
  • Derui Wang, Kristen Moore, Diksha Goel, Minjune Kim, Gang Li, Yang Li, Robin Doss, Minhui Xue, Bo Li, Seyit Camtepe, Liming Zhu, "CAMP in the Odyssey: Provably Robust Reinforcement Learning with Certified Radius Maximization." USENIX Security 2025 (CORE A*). Link
  • Majid Abdulsatar, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Faheem Ullah. "Towards Deep Learning Enabled Cybersecurity Risk Assessment for Microservice Architectures." Cluster Computing, 2025 (Impact Factor: 3.6). Link
2024
  • Diksha Goel, Kristen Moore, Mingyu Guo, Derui Wang, Minjune Kim, Seyit Camtepe, "Optimizing Cyber Defense in Dynamic Active Directories through Reinforcement Learning." ESORICS 2024 (CORE A). Link
  • Diksha Goel, Hong Shen, Hui Tian, Mingyu Guo. "Effective Graph-Neural-Network based Models for Discovering Structural Hole Spanners in Large-Scale and Diverse Networks." Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 (Impact Factor: 8.5). Link
  • Ankit Kumar Jain, Hariom Shukla, Diksha Goel. "A Comprehensive Survey on DDoS Detection, Mitigation, and Defense Strategies in Software-Defined Networks." Cluster Computing, 2024 (Impact Factor: 4.4). Link
  • Mingyu Guo, Diksha Goel, Guanhua Wang, Runqi Guo, Yuko Sakurai, Muhammad Ali, "Mechanism Design for Public Projects via Three Machine Learning Based Approaches." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2024 (Impact Factor: 2.5, CORE A). Link
  • Diksha Goel, Max Ward, Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann, Hung Nguyen, Mingyu Guo, "Hardening Active Directory Graphs via Evolutionary Diversity Optimization based Policies." ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, 2024. Link
  • Raveen Kanishka Jayalath, Hussain Ahmad, Diksha Goel, Muhammad Shuja Syed, Faheem Ullah, "Microservice Vulnerability Analysis: A Literature Review with Empirical Insights." IEEE Access, 2024 (Impact Factor: 3.4). Link
  • Ankit Kumar Jain, Hariom Shukla, Diksha Goel. "S-Defender: A Smishing Detection Approach in Mobile Environment." International Conference on Cyber Warfare, Security and Space Computing, Pages 68-78. Link
2023
  • Diksha Goel, Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann, Hung Nguyen, Mingyu Guo, "Evolving Reinforcement Learning Environment to Minimize Learner’s Achievable Reward: An Application on Hardening Active Directory Systems." GECCO 2023 (CORE A). Link
2022
  • Diksha Goel, Max Hector Ward-Graham, Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann, Hung Nguyen, Mingyu Guo, "Defending Active Directory by Combining Neural Network Based Dynamic Program and Evolutionary Diversity Optimisation." GECCO 2022, Boston, MA, USA (CORE A). Link
  • Diksha Goel, Hong Shen, Hui Tian, Mingyu Guo. "Discovering Structural Hole Spanners in Dynamic Networks via Graph Neural Networks." WI-IAT 2022, Niagara Falls, Canada (CORE B). Link
2021
  • Diksha Goel, Hong Shen, Hui Tian, Mingyu Guo. "Maintenance of Structural Hole Spanners in Dynamic Networks." LCN 2021, Edmonton, AB, Canada (CORE A). Link
  • Deepa Joshi, Vidyanand Mishra, Honey Srivastav, Diksha Goel. "Progressive Transfer Learning Approach for Identifying the Leaf Type by Optimising Network Parameters." Neural Processing Letters, Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 3653-3676, 2021 (Impact Factor: 2.5). Link
2020
  • Ankit Kumar Jain, Diksha Goel, Sanjli Agarwal, Yukta Singh, Gaurav Bajaj, "Predicting spam messages using back propagation neural network." Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages 403-422, 2020 (Impact Factor: 2.01). Link
2019
  • Diksha Goel, Megha Quamara. "Role-Based Authorization and Authentication Framework for Remote Service Access by In-Vehicle Users." ICDSMLA 2019, Springer, Singapore. Link
2018
  • Diksha Goel, Ankit Kumar Jain. "Mobile phishing attacks and defence mechanisms: State of art and open research challenges." Computers & Security, Volume 73, Pages 519-544, 2018 (Impact Factor: 5.1, CORE B). Link
  • Diksha Goel, Ankit Kumar Jain. "Smishing-classifier: a novel framework for detection of smishing attack in mobile environment." NGCT 2018, Springer, Singapore. Link
  • Diksha Goel, Ankit Kumar Jain. "Overview of smartphone security: Attack and defence techniques." Computer and Cyber Security, Volume 4, Pages 249-281, 2018. Link