Publications

2020

Super-App Behavioral Patterns in Credit Risk Models: Financial, Statistical and Regulatory Implications, arXiv:2005.14658, 2020, [paper]
Combining behavioral biometrics and session context analytics to enhance risk-based static authentication in web applications, International Journal of Information Security, 2020, [paper]

Risk-Based Static Authentication in Web Applications with Behavioral Biometrics and Session Context Analytics, Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2019, [paper]

Hunting Malicious TLS Certificates with Deep Neural Networks, Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 2018, Toronto, Canada. [paper]
DeepPhish: Simulating Malicious AI, IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2018, San Diego, USA. [paper][slides]

Fraud Detection by Stacking Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees, Data Science for Cyber-Security Symposium, 2017, Imperial College London, UK. [paper] [slides]
Classifying Phishing URLs Using Recurrent Neural Networks, IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 2017, Scottsdale, USA. [paper] [slides]

Knowing your enemies: leveraging data analysis to expose phishing patterns against a major US financial institution, IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 1-10, 2016, Toronto, Canada. [paper] [slides]
Phishing Classification using Lexical and Statistical Frequencies of URLs, Analytics Forum 2016, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. [abstract] [poster]

Feature Engineering Strategies for Credit Card Fraud Detection, Expert Systems with Applications, 51(1), 134-142, 2016 [paper]
PhD Thesis: Example-Dependent Cost-Sensitive Classification, University of Luxembourg, 2015. [thesis] [slides] [repo]
Detecting Credit Card Fraud using Periodic Features, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December, 2015, Miami, US [paper]
A novel cost-sensitive framework for customer churn predictive modeling, Decision Analytics, 2015. [paper] [slides]
Ensemble of Example-Dependent Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees, arxiv, 2015. [paper] [slides]
Example-Dependent Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees, Expert Systems with Applications, 42(19), 6609–6619, 2015 [paper]

Example-Dependent Cost-Sensitive Logistic Regression for Credit Scoring, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 3, 2014, Detroit, US [paper] [poster] [slides]
Improving Credit Card Fraud Detection with Calibrated Probabilities, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 25, 2014, Philadelphia, US [paper]
Cost Sensitive Credit Card Fraud Detection using Bayes Minimum Risk, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 3, 2013, Miami, US [paper]
Using the Boosting Technique to Improve the Predictive Power of a Credit Risk Model, SAS Global Forum, April 28, 2013, San Fransisco, US [paper]
Parallel Computing in SAS®: Genetic Algorithms Application, SAS Global Forum, April 22, 2012, Orlando, US [paper][slides]
Constructing a Credit Risk Scorecard using Predictive Clusters, SAS Global Forum, April 22, 2012, Orlando, US [paper]
Evolutionary algorithms for selecting the architecture of a MLP Neural Network: A Credit Scoring Case, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 10, 2011, Vancouver, Canada [paper] [slides]
Genetic Algorithm Optimization for Selecting the Best Architecture of a Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network: A Credit Scoring Case, SAS Global Forum, April 4, 2011, Las Vegas, US [paper] [slides]