Research Interest: Data Mining, Information Security, Network Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Phishing Websites Detection, Malware Detection, Blockchain Ethereum and Bitcoin,Deep Learning, Ponzi Schemes Detection.
Education:
Ph.D (Computer Application and Technology) (2019-2022) University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, CHINA. “Fraud Detection Methods for Websites and
Ethereum Smart Contracts”.
M.Sc (Computer Science) (2015-2018) Thamar University, Yemen. “Analysis of Accident
Times for Highway Locations Using K-Means Clustering and Decision Rules Extracted from
Decision Trees”.
BS (Computer Information Systems) (2006-2010) Sana'a University, Sana'a, YEMEN.
4 years program.
03-2023 to 02-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Shenzhen University, College of
Mathematics and Statistics.
2019-2023, Ph.D. student in Computer Applications in the High-Performance Data Mining
Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced
Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China.
2018-2019, Lecturer, Teaching computer science principles and some programming languages
at the Department of Information Technology of Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.
2015-2017, Lecturer, the Department of Computer Science at a Number of Private
Universities and Institutes in Sana'a, Yemen.
2011-2014, Assistant Teacher, Department of information system, Faculty of computer
sciences and information technology, Sana’a University, Yemen.
Some of my publications:
Aljofey, A., Bello, S. A., Lu, J., Chen Xu, C. “BERT-PhishFinder: A Robust Model for Accurate
Phishing URL Detection with Optimized DistilBERT”. In IEEE transactions on dependable and
secure computing august, 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2025.3545771.
Aljofey, A., Bello, S. A., Lu, J., Chen Xu, C. “Comprehensive phishing detection: A multichannel approach with variants TCN fusion leveraging URL and HTML features”. Journal of
Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Volume 238, 2025, 104170, ISSN 1084-8045,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2025.104170.
Aljofey, A., Jiang, Q., Rasool, A. et al. “An effective detection approach for phishing websites
using URL and HTML features”. Scientific Reports 12, 8842 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10841-5
Aljofey, A., Jiang, Q., Qu, Q., Huang, M., Niyigena, J.-P. “An Effective Phishing Detection
Model Based on Character Level Convolutional Neural Network from URL”. Electronics (2020),
9, 1514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9091514
Aljofey, A., Jiang, Q., Qu, Q. “A Supervised Learning Model for Detecting Ponzi Contracts in
Ethereum Blockchain”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Big Data and
Security, ICBDS 2021, Shenzhen, China, 26–28 November 2021; pp. 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0852-1_52
Aljofey, A.; Rasool, A., Jiang, Q., Qu, Q. “A Feature-Based Robust Method for Abnormal
Contracts Detection in Ethereum Blockchain”. Electronics (2022), 11, 2937.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182937
Email: aljofey@gdufs.edu.cn, alialjofey4@gmail.com