Networking and IT Security Faculty
Amirali Abari, PhD
Associate Professor
Information Technology
Information Technology
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- computational decision making
- recommender systems
- network science
- computer security
Tosan Atele-Williams, PhD
Academic Associate
Networking and Information Technology
Networking and Information Technology
- Trust Systems HCI
- Privacy and Security
- HCI
- UX
- Computational Trust
- Bigdata and ML/AI
Khalil El-Khatib, PhD
Undergraduate Program Director – (NITS), Professor
Director, Institute for Cyber Security and Resilient Systems
Information Security
Director, Institute for Cyber Security and Resilient Systems
Information Security
Patrick Hung, PhD
Professor
Information Security
Information Security
- smart toys
- robotic computing
- services computing
- workflow
- security and privacy
Josh Lowe, BIT, CCNA, CCNP (R&S, SEC), CCSP, CCAI, JNCIA
Associate Teaching Professor
Advanced Computer Networking
Advanced Computer Networking
Pooria Madani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Networking and IT Security
Networking and IT Security
- adversarial machine learning
- intrusion detection
- malware detection
- artificial intelligence
Samaneh Mazaheri, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Medical Image Processing
- Computer Science Education
- AI in Education
Shahram S. Heydari, PhD
Graduate Program Director – (MITS)
Professor
Information Technology
Professor
Information Technology
- network protocols and services
- critical infrastructure reliability and failure recovery
- software-defined infrastructures
- cloud-based content delivery
- quality of service and traffic modeling
Julie Thorpe, PhD
Professor
IT Security
IT Security
- Authentication
- Biometrics
- Graphical passwords
- Human factors in computer security
- Operating system security
- Passwords
- Security policy
- Software security
Miguel Vargas Martin, PhD, PEng
Professor
Computer Science
Computer Science
- computer and systems security
- artificial intelligence
Richard W. Pazzi, PhD
Professor
Next Generation Wireless Networks and Applications
Next Generation Wireless Networks and Applications
- vehicular ad hoc networks
- wireless sensor networks
- multimedia streaming
- performance evaluation
- algorithm design
Li Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Information Technology
Information Technology
- Cybersecurity
- machine learning, deep learning
- AutoML
- model optimization
- network data analytics
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- 5G/6G networks
- intrusion detection
- anomaly detection
- concept drift
- online learning
- continual learning
- adversarial machine learning
Ying Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor
Information Technology (cross-appointed with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science)
Information Technology (cross-appointed with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science)