Publications
Workshops, Conferences and Journals
- Ankita Samaddar, Sandeep Neema, Daniel Balasubramanian, Xenofon Koutsoukos, "Learning Red Agent Policy from Observations for Neurosymbolic Autonomous Cyber Agents", (accepted), IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) 2026 (accepted)
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- Nicholas Potteiger, Ankita Samaddar, Taylor T Johnson, Xenofon Koutsoukos, "Reward Shaping and Action Masking for Compositional Tasks using Behavior Trees and LLMs", (accepted), International Conference on Neuro-Symbolic Systems, NeuS, 2026
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- Chris Hicks, Elizabeth Bates, Shae McFadden, Isaac Symes Thompson, Myles Foley, Ed Chapman, Nickolas Espinosa Dice, Ankita Samaddar, Joshua Sylvester, Himanshu Neema, Nicholas Butts, Nate Foster, Ahmad Ridley, Zoe M, Paul Jones, "Building Better Environments for Autonomous Cyber Defence", AI4CNI-26 @ AAMAS
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- Ankita Samaddar, Nicholas Potteiger, Xenofon Koutsoukos, "Out-of-Distribution Detection for Neurosymbolic Autonomous Cyber Agents", International Conference on AI and Cybersecurity (ICAIC), 2025
(Best Paper Award)
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- Nicholas Potteiger, Ankita Samaddar, Hunter Bergstrom and Xenofon Koutsoukos, "Designing Robust Cyber-Defense Agents with Evolving Behavior Trees", IEEE International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA), 2024
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran, "A Location Validation Technique to Mitigate GPS Spoofing Attacks in IEEE 802.11p based Fleet Operator's Network of Electric Vehicles", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSC), 2024
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran, "Online Distributed Schedule Randomization with Period Adaptation to Mitigate Timing Attacks in Industrial Control Systems", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 22, Issue 6,
Pages 1-39, November 2023 (ACM Digital Library)
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran, "Online Schedule Randomization to Mitigate Timing Attacks in 5G Periodic URLLC Communications", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 1-26, July 2023
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran and Rui Tan, "Work Already Published: A Schedule Randomization Policy to Mitigate Timing Attacks in WirelessHART Networks", Brief-Presentations Session of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology
and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2021
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran and Rui Tan, "A Schedule Randomization Policy to Mitigate Timing Attacks in WirelessHART Networks", Springer Real-Time Systems, Volume 56, Pages 452-489, October 2020
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- Ankita Samaddar, Zahra Rahiminasab, Arvind Easwaran, Ansuman Banerjee and Xue Bai, "Linearization based Safety Verification of a Glucose Control Protocol", IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC), 2019
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- Ankita Samaddar, Arvind Easwaran and Rui Tan, "SlotSwapper: A Schedule Randomization protocol for Real-Time WirelessHART Networks", Real-Time Networks (RTN), 2019
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- Ankita Samaddar, Moumita Das, Ansuman Banerjee, "A new memory scheduling policy for real time systems", Embedded Computing and System Design (ISED) 2017
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- Shreya Ghosh, Ankita Samaddar, Trishita Goswami, Somnath Pal, "Chemical Graph Mining for Classification of Chemical Reactions", International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA),
2017
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- Ankita Samaddar, Trishita Goswami, Shreya Ghosh, Somnath Pal, "An algorithm to input and store wider classes of chemical reactions for mining chemical graphs", International Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2015
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Book Chapter
- Arvind Easwaran, Michael Yuhas, Saravanan Ramanathan, and Ankita Samaddar*, "Real-Time Scheduling for Computing Architectures", In Handbook of Computer Architecture, pp. 1-44. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. (* all authors had equal contribution)
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Thesis
- PhD Thesis: SCHEDULE RANDOMIZATION BASED COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST TIMING ATTACKS IN REAL-TIME WIRELESS NETWORKS
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