Muhammad Ismail

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
160 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Ismail is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Ismail has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 63 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 46 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Ismail's work include Smart Grid Security and Resilience (43 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (23 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (21 papers). Muhammad Ismail is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Security and Resilience (43 papers), Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (23 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (21 papers). Muhammad Ismail collaborates with scholars based in United States, Qatar and Canada. Muhammad Ismail's co-authors include Erchin Serpedin, Weihua Zhuang, Khalid Qaraqe, Mostafa F. Shaaban, Abdulrahman Takiddin, Usman Zafar, Mohamed Abdallah, Katherine Davis, Mohamed Mahmoud and Rachad Atat and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Ismail

145 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deep Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection of Electricity Theft Cyberattacks in Smart Grids

2022 133 citations Abdulrahman Takiddin, Muhammad Ismail et al. IEEE Systems Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Ismail United States	30	2.1k	994	941	493	380	160	2.9k
Arman Sargolzaei United States	23	823 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	751 0.8×	435 0.9×	174 0.5×	83	2.6k
Jing Wu China	27	860 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	871 0.9×	310 0.6×	150 0.4×	148	2.5k
Muhammad Tariq Pakistan	26	989 0.5×	490 0.5×	601 0.6×	359 0.7×	92 0.2×	110	2.0k
Laura Bieker Germany	7	1.3k 0.6×	995 1.0×	816 0.9×	223 0.5×	721 1.9×	15	2.4k
Renato Lo Cigno Italy	28	1.7k 0.8×	962 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	243 0.5×	665 1.8×	208	3.0k
Jianshan Zhou China	26	768 0.4×	351 0.4×	852 0.9×	248 0.5×	367 1.0×	112	1.9k
Dajun Du China	24	643 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	781 0.8×	335 0.7×	159 0.4×	132	1.8k
Hongzi Zhu China	32	1.5k 0.7×	164 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	441 0.9×	263 0.7×	118	2.8k
Andreas Festag Germany	27	3.2k 1.6×	431 0.4×	1.9k 2.0×	269 0.5×	567 1.5×	106	3.7k
Kshirasagar Naik Canada	26	1.6k 0.8×	318 0.3×	2.1k 2.2×	351 0.7×	189 0.5×	184	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Ismail

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fouda, Mostafa M., et al.. (2025). Joint Optimization of IRS and THz Resource Allocation in 6G IoT Networks: An Adaptive Online MADDPG Approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(22). 47118–47134.

Fahim, Shahriar Rahman, Rachad Atat, Abdulrahman Takiddin, et al.. (2025). Graph Neural Network-Based Approach for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks on Voltage Stability. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 12. 12–23. 1 indexed citations

Atat, Rachad, Abdulrahman Takiddin, Muhammad Ismail, & Erchin Serpedin. (2025). Graphon Neural Networks-Based Detection of False Data Injection Attacks in Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Power Systems. IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy. 12. 24–35.

Fahim, Shahriar Rahman, Rachad Atat, Abdulrahman Takiddin, et al.. (2024). Graph Autoencoder-Based Power Attacks Detection for Resilient Electrified Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. 10(4). 9539–9553. 15 indexed citations

Elnour, Mariam, Rachad Atat, Abdulrahman Takiddin, Muhammad Ismail, & Erchin Serpedin. (2024). Eigenvector centrality-enhanced graph network for attack detection in power distribution systems. Electric Power Systems Research. 241. 111339–111339. 3 indexed citations

Jamshed, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ismail, Haris Pervaiz, et al.. (2023). Reinforcement learning-based allocation of fog nodes for cloud-based smart grid. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100144–100144. 2 indexed citations

Ciocarlie, Gabriela, et al.. (2023). Digital Twin of Cyber-Physical CNC for Smart Manufacturing. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Takiddin, Abdulrahman, Muhammad Ismail, Rachad Atat, Katherine Davis, & Erchin Serpedin. (2023). Robust Graph Autoencoder-Based Detection of False Data Injection Attacks Against Data Poisoning in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 5(3). 1287–1301. 14 indexed citations

Takiddin, Abdulrahman, Rachad Atat, Muhammad Ismail, et al.. (2023). Generalized Graph Neural Network-Based Detection of False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. 7(3). 618–630. 42 indexed citations

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Shaik, Parvez, et al.. (2023). Analysis of Multi-User-Based UAV System With Outdated CSI. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 5. 442–456. 2 indexed citations

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Takiddin, Abdulrahman, Muhammad Ismail, Usman Zafar, & Erchin Serpedin. (2022). Deep Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection of Electricity Theft Cyberattacks in Smart Grids. IEEE Systems Journal. 16(3). 4106–4117. 133 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ismail, Muhammad, et al.. (2021). Analysis of EV Charging Coordination Efficiency in Presence of Cheating Customers. IEEE Access. 9. 153666–153677. 2 indexed citations

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Boyaci, Osman, Amarachi Umunnakwe, Abhijeet Sahu, et al.. (2021). Graph Neural Networks Based Detection of Stealth False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids. IEEE Systems Journal. 16(2). 2946–2957. 93 indexed citations

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Kong, Han-Bae, et al.. (2020). Q-Learning Based Two-Timescale Power Allocation for Multi-Homing Hybrid RF/VLC Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 9(4). 443–447. 39 indexed citations

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Ismail, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Efficient Prediction of Link Outage in Mobile Optical Wireless Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(2). 882–896. 14 indexed citations

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Ismail, Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Channel Characterization and Realization of Mobile Optical Wireless Communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 68(10). 6426–6439. 24 indexed citations

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Shaaban, Mostafa F., et al.. (2019). Joint Planning of Smart EV Charging Stations and DGs in Eco-Friendly Remote Hybrid Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 10(5). 5819–5830. 122 indexed citations

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Nabil, Mahmoud, Muhammad Ismail, Mohamed Mahmoud, Waleed Alasmary, & Erchin Serpedin. (2019). PPETD: Privacy-Preserving Electricity Theft Detection Scheme With Load Monitoring and Billing for AMI Networks. IEEE Access. 7. 96334–96348. 81 indexed citations

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Tonyalı, Samet, et al.. (2017). Performance Analysis of Certificate Renewal Scheme for AMI Networks. 2 indexed citations

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Mahmoud, Mohamed, Khaled Rabieh, Ahmed Sherif, et al.. (2017). Privacy-Preserving Fine-Grained Data Retrieval Schemes for Mobile Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 16(5). 871–884. 10 indexed citations

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