Ahmed Oun

Bio:Dr. Ahmed Oun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Ohio University, which he joined in 2024. Prior joining OU, he held a faculty position at Ohio Northern University. Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Oun held various positions in the oil and gas industry, including roles as a Gas Turbine Controls NPI Engineer and Operation Control Room Supervisor. He later served as a Project Manager at General Electric International Inc.

Research Interests: His research interests span cybersecurity, hardware-assisted security for trusted embedded systems, VLSI, computing systems, the secure Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and secure data communication using machine learning. Dr. Oun's work also focused on adopting AI and developing new approaches for securing and protecting advanced computing systems against cyber-attacks, design thefts, and hardware Trojans.

Dr. Oun received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, in May 2022, and his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, in December 2012.

Journal Article, Academic Journal:

1. A. Oun, N. Hagerdorn, C. Scheideger and X. Cheng,”Mobile Devices or Head-Mounted Displays: A Comparative Review and Analysis of Augmented Reality in Healthcare,” in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 21825-21839, (2024), doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3361833.
2. Oun, Ahmed, Noor Ahmad Hazari, and Mohammed Y. Niamat. ”Analysis of Swarm Intelligence Based ANN Algorithms for Attacking PUFs.” IEEE Access 9 (2021): 121743-121758.
3. Hazari, Noor Ahmad, Ahmed Oun (Co-first Author), and Mohammed Niamat. ”Machine Learning Vulnerability Analysis of FPGA-based Ring Oscillator PUFs and Counter Measures.” ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC) 17, no. 3 (2021): 1-20.
4. Amsaad, Fathi, Ahmed Oun, Mohammed Y. Niamat, Abdul Razaque, Selcuk Kose, Mohamed Mahmoud, Waleed Alasmary, and Fawaz Alsolami. ”Enhancing the Performance of Lightweight Configurable PUF for Robust IoT Hardware-Assisted Security.” IEEE Access 9 (2021): 136792-136810.

Conference Proceeding:

1. E. Berei, M. A. Khan, and A. Oun, “Machine Learning Algorithms for DoS and DDoS Cyberattacks Detection in Real-time Environment,” 21st IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC-2024), Las Vegas, USA, Jan 2024.
2. E. Berei, A. Oun, and M. A. Khan, “Enhancing Cybersecurity: A Pipeline Approach for Efficient Machine Learning Intrusion Detection”, 14th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON),York City, NY, USA, Oct. (2023).
3. A. Oun and M. Niamat, ”PUF-Based Authentication for the Security of IoT Devices,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eIT), Romeoville, IL, USA, (2023), pp. 067 070, doi: 10.1109/eIT57321.2023.10187363.
4. H. Drennen, J. Urizar, J. Kirsis, M. A. Khan, and A. Oun, “Home Threat Management Router,” American Society of Engineering Education - North Central Section Spring Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 18- 19 Mar (2023)
5. Oun, Ahmed, and Mohammed Niamat. ”Design of a Delay-Based FPGA PUF Resistant to Machine Learning Attacks.” In 2021 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 865-868. IEEE, 2021.
6. Oun, Ahmed, and Mohammed Niamat. ”Defense Mechanism Vulnerability Analysis of Ring Oscillator PUFs Against Neural Network Modeling Attacks using the Dragonfly Algorithm.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), pp.378-382. IEEE, 2020.
7. Hazari, Noor Ahmad, Ahmed Oun, and Mohammed Niamat. ”Analysis and machine learning vulnerability assessment of XOR-inverter based ring oscillator PUF design.” In 2019 IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp.590-593. IEEE, 2019.
8. Hazari, Noor Ahmad, Faris Alsulami, Ahmed Oun, and Mohammed Niamat. ”Performance Analysis of XOR-Inverter based Ring Oscillator PUF for Hardware Security.” In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), pp. 253-256. IEEE, 2019.
9. A. Razaque, M. B. H. Frej, D. Sabyrov, A. Shaikhyn, F. Amsaad and A. Oun, ”Detection of Phishing Websites using Machine Learning,” 2020 IEEE Cloud Summit, 2020, pp. 103-107.
10. Gulsezim, Duisen, Seiitkaliyeva Zhansaya, Abdul Razaque, Yestayeva Ramina, Fathi Amsaad, Muder Almiani, Raouf Ganda, and Ahmed Oun. ”Two Factor Authentication using Twofish Encryption and Visual Cryptography Algorithms for Secure Data Communication.” In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), pp.405-411. IEEE, 2019.
11. Razaque, Abdul, Fathi Amsaad, Meer Jaro Khan, Amanzholova Saule Toksanovna, Ahmed Oun, and Muder Almiani. ”Privacy preserving medium access control protocol for wireless body area sensor networks.” In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), pp. 212-217. IEEE, 2019.
12. Razaque, Abdul, Fathi Amsaad, Cai Mengjie Cherry, Lin Jiahui Linda, and Ahmed Oun. ”Smart Phone as Toolbox for Height Measurement.” In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), pp. 425-429. IEEE, 2019.