Dr. George Karabatis

About

George Karabatis is a Professor of Information Systems at UMBC. Prior to joining UMBC he was a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) working on information related research for the telecom industry.

Research interests

Semantic data science, semantic information integration, semantics for AI, machine learning, heterogeneous data integration, cyber-security, intrusion detection and prevention, databases, entrepreneurship.

Teaching interests

Data science, information integration, databases, and cyber-security courses.

Education

  • Ph D, Computer science — University of Houston (1995)
  • MS, Computer science — University of Houston (1988)
  • BS, Mathematics — Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1983)

Publications

  • Adversary-Resilient Clustered Federated Learning for Secure AI-Driven Healthcare Data Analytics 2025 International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) · IEEE Press Abdullah Melhem, Ahmed AlEroud, Abdullah Al-manum, George Karabatis, Mohamed Ibrahem
  • On the Verification of Software Vulnerabilities During Static Code Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques 2017 Cloud and Trusted Computing (CTC'17). OTM Conferences. · pp. 99-106 Foteini Cheirdari, George Karabatis
  • Queryable Semantics to Detect Cyber-Attacks: A Flow-Based Detection Approach 2016 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems · 48 (2) · pp. 207-223 Ahmed F AlEroud, George Karabatis
  • Context Aware Discovery in Web Data through Anomaly Detection 2015 International Journal on Web Engineering Technology · pp. 18 Ruman Tambe, George Karabatis, Vandana Janeja
  • Context and Semantics for Detection of Cyber-Attacks 2014 ” International Journal of Information and Computer Security · 6 (1) · pp. 63-92 Ahmed Aleroud, George Karabatis, Prayank Sharma, Peng He

Grants and Contracts

  • Anonymization of Network Trace Data through Differential Privacy 2016 NIST/MITRE FFRDC · Grant · Funded Zhiyuan Chen (Co-Principal), George Karabatis (Principal)
  • Energy Education through Green Buildings 2015 Constellation: · Sponsored Research · Funded Nirmalya Roy (Principal), Aryya Gangopadhyay (Co-Principal), George Karabatis (Co-Principal), Nilanjan Banerjee (Co-Principal)
  • Sensor Technology Box for Smart Health 2015 NSF I-Corps · Grant · Funded Nirmalya Roy (Principal), George Karabatis (Co-Principal)
  • Anonymization of Network Trace Data 2015 NIST/MITRE FFRDC · Grant · Funded Zhiyuan Chen (Co-Principal), George Karabatis (Principal)
  • TWC: TTP Option: Small: A Flow-based Detection of Cyber-attacks using Context in Semantic Link Networks 2015 NSF · Grant · Not Funded
  • Semantic, contextual, and scalable detection of zero-day attacks for cloud environments 2015 Office of Naval Research · Grant · Not Funded George Karabatis (Principal), Vandana Janeja (Co-Principal)
  • The Automated cyber-attack PredictiOn, deteCtion and AnaLYtic Processing SystEm (APOCALYPSE) 2015 IARPA · Grant · Not Funded George Karabatis (Principal), Bin Zhou (Co-Principal)
  • Energy Education through Green Buildings 2014 Constellation: · Sponsored Research · Funded Nirmalya Roy (Principal), Aryya Gangopadhyay (Co-Principal), George Karabatis (Co-Principal)
  • TWC: Small: Leveraging Context in Semantic Link Networks to Detect Cyber-attacks: A Flow-based Detection Approach 2014 NSF · Grant · Not Funded
  • CRAFT: Contextually Revealing Attacks over Flows Tool 2014 State of MD: TEDCO - MII · Grant · Funded
  • Energy Education through Green Buildings 2013 Constellation: · Sponsored Research · Funded Nirmalya Roy (Principal), Aryya Gangopadhyay (Co-Principal), George Karabatis (Co-Principal)

Patents and Intellectual Property

  • A method to generate mappings of heterogeneous relational schemas using unsupervised learning 2022 Disclosure George Karabatis, Andreas Behrend, Leonard Traeger
  • A METHOD FOR ANONYMIZING NETWORK DATA USING DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY 2022 Patent · No. U.S. Patent No. 11,483,294 George Karabatis, Zhiyuan Chen, Ahmed F AlEroud, Fan Yang
  • A MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRUE AND FALSE POSITIVE VULNERABILITIES IN SOFTWARE SOURCE CODE 2019 Disclosure · No. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/865,505 George Karabatis, Foteini Cheirdari-Argiropoulos
  • FLOW-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CYBER-ATTACKS UTILIZING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION 2014 Patent · No. 20150326600 George Karabatis, Ahmed AlEroud