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most citedMitigating Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks via Denoising and Compression

3 citations · 11 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

eess.SP2026

Physics-Informed Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Over Distributed Edge Devices

Nathan Tatsuta, Rajeev Sahay

Direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental array processing task that has benefited substantially from deep learning. Deploying such methods using data distributed acro…

cs.SI2026

Spatiotemporal Link Formation Prediction in Social Learning Networks Using Graph Neural Networks

Ali Mohammadiasl, Bita Akram, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +1

Social learning networks (SLNs) are graphical representations that capture student interactions within educational settings (e.g., a classroom), with nodes representing students an…

eess.AS2025

REVERB-FL: Server-Side Adversarial and Reserve-Enhanced Federated Learning for Robust Audio Classification

Sathwika Peechara, Rajeev Sahay

Federated learning (FL) enables a privacy-preserving training paradigm for audio classification but is highly sensitive to client heterogeneity and poisoning attacks, where adversa…

eess.SP2025

A Speculative GLRT-Backed Approach for Robust Deep Learning-Based Array Processing

Nian-Cin Wang, Rajeev Sahay

Deep learning (DL) has recently emerged as an efficient approach for array processing tasks such as signal detection and direction of arrival. However, DL models lack statistical g…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges

Kasra Borazjani, Naji Khosravan, Rajeev Sahay +2

Multi-modal multi-task (M3T) foundation models (FMs) have recently shown transformative potential in artificial intelligence, with emerging applications in education. However, thei…

cs.SI2025

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Link Predictions Among Peers in Online Classrooms Using Federated Learning

Anurata Prabha Hridi, Muntasir Hoq, Zhikai Gao +4

Social interactions among classroom peers, represented as social learning networks (SLNs), play a crucial role in enhancing learning outcomes. While SLN analysis has recently garne…

eess.SP2025

Robust Eavesdropping in the Presence of Adversarial Communications for RF Fingerprinting

Andrew Yuan, Rajeev Sahay

Deep learning is an effective approach for performing radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, which aims to identify the transmitter corresponding to received RF signals. However, bey…

eess.SP2025

An Uncertainty Quantification Framework for Deep Learning-Based Automatic Modulation Classification

Huian Yang, Rajeev Sahay

Deep learning has been shown to be highly effective for automatic modulation classification (AMC), which is a pivotal technology for next-generation cognitive communications. Yet,…

eess.SP2025

FLAME: A Federated Learning Approach for Multi-Modal RF Fingerprinting

Kasra Borazjani, Kiarash Kianfar, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +1

Authorization systems are increasingly relying on processing radio frequency (RF) waveforms at receivers to fingerprint (i.e., determine the identity of) the corresponding transmit…

cs.CY2025

The Transition from Centralized Machine Learning to Federated Learning for Mental Health in Education: A Survey of Current Methods and Future Directions

Maryam Ebrahimi, Rajeev Sahay, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +1

Research has increasingly explored the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within the mental health domain to enhance both patient care and health…

eess.SP2023

Mitigating Evasion Attacks in Federated Learning-Based Signal Classifiers

Su Wang, Rajeev Sahay, Adam Piaseczny +1

Recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification (SC) tasks has shown promise but FL-based SC remains susceptible to model poisoning adversaria…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

How Potent are Evasion Attacks for Poisoning Federated Learning-Based Signal Classifiers?

Su Wang, Rajeev Sahay, Christopher G. Brinton

There has been recent interest in leveraging federated learning (FL) for radio signal classification tasks. In FL, model parameters are periodically communicated from participating…

cs.SI2023

Predicting Learning Interactions in Social Learning Networks: A Deep Learning Enabled Approach

Rajeev Sahay, Serena Nicoll, Minjun Zhang +4

We consider the problem of predicting link formation in Social Learning Networks (SLN), a type of social network that forms when people learn from one another through structured in…

eess.SP2022

Defending Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Based Power Allocation in Massive MIMO Using Denoising Autoencoders

Rajeev Sahay, Minjun Zhang, David J. Love +1

Recent work has advocated for the use of deep learning to perform power allocation in the downlink of massive MIMO (maMIMO) networks. Yet, such deep learning models are vulnerable…

eess.SP2022

A Neural Network-Prepended GLRT Framework for Signal Detection Under Nonlinear Distortions

Rajeev Sahay, Swaroop Appadwedula, David J. Love +1

Many communications and sensing applications hinge on the detection of a signal in a noisy, interference-heavy environment. Signal processing theory yields techniques such as the g…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

Mitigating Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks via Denoising and Compression

Rehana Mahfuz, Rajeev Sahay, Aly El Gamal

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network,…

eess.SP2021

A Deep Ensemble-based Wireless Receiver Architecture for Mitigating Adversarial Attacks in Automatic Modulation Classification

Rajeev Sahay, Christopher G. Brinton, David J. Love

Deep learning-based automatic modulation classification (AMC) models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Such attacks inject specifically crafted wireless interference into tra…

eess.SP2020

Frequency-based Automated Modulation Classification in the Presence of Adversaries

Rajeev Sahay, Christopher G. Brinton, David J. Love

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) aims to improve the efficiency of crowded radio spectrums by automatically predicting the modulation constellation of wireless RF signals.…

cs.LG2020

Non-Intrusive Detection of Adversarial Deep Learning Attacks via Observer Networks

Kirthi Shankar Sivamani, Rajeev Sahay, Aly El Gamal

Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to specifically crafted adversarial inputs that are quasi-imperceptible to humans. In this letter, we propose a n…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Ensemble Noise Simulation to Handle Uncertainty about Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks

Rehana Mahfuz, Rajeev Sahay, Aly El Gamal

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks can be crafted in a variety of ways by varying either how the attack algorithm relies on the gradient, the network architectur…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

A Computationally Efficient Method for Defending Adversarial Deep Learning Attacks

Rajeev Sahay, Rehana Mahfuz, Aly El Gamal

The reliance on deep learning algorithms has grown significantly in recent years. Yet, these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which introduce visually impercept…

cs.LG2018★ 1 cited

Combatting Adversarial Attacks through Denoising and Dimensionality Reduction: A Cascaded Autoencoder Approach

Rajeev Sahay, Rehana Mahfuz, Aly El Gamal

Machine Learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that rely on perturbing the input data. This work proposes a novel strategy using Autoencoder Deep Neural Networks to…