Networking and IT Security Faculty

Amirali Abari, PhD
Information Technology
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- computational decision making
- recommender systems
- network science
- computer security

Tosan Atele-Williams, PhD
Networking and Information Technology
- Trust Systems HCI
- Privacy and Security
- HCI
- UX
- Computational Trust
- Bigdata and ML/AI

Khalil El-Khatib, PhD
Director, Institute for Cyber Security and Resilient Systems
Information Security

Haytham El Miligi, PhD
IT Security
- Cyber Security
- Internet of things
- mobile applications
- machine learning
Patrick Hung, PhD
Graduate Program Director - CS, Professor
Information Security
- smart toys
- robotic computing
- services computing
- workflow
- security and privacy

Josh Lowe, BIT, CCNA, CCNP (R&S, SEC), CCSP, CCAI, JNCIA
Advanced Computer Networking

Brent MacRae
Associate Teaching Professor
Networking and IT Security

Pooria Madani, PhD
Networking and IT Security
- adversarial machine learning
- intrusion detection
- malware detection
- artificial intelligence
Samaneh Mazaheri, PhD
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Medical Image Processing
- Computer Science Education
- AI in Education
Shahram S. Heydari, PhD
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
IT Security
- Authentication
- Biometrics
- Graphical passwords
- Human factors in computer security
- Operating system security
- Passwords
- Security policy
- Software security

Miguel Vargas Martin, PhD, PEng
Computer Science
- computer and systems security
- artificial intelligence
Richard W. Pazzi, PhD
Next Generation Wireless Networks and Applications
- vehicular ad hoc networks
- wireless sensor networks
- multimedia streaming
- performance evaluation
- algorithm design
Ying Zhu, PhD
Information Technology (cross-appointed with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science)