Team Members

Directors

Reza Ebrahimi (Director)

Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

Ph.D. in Information Systems with Hsinchun Chen , University of Arizona
MS in Computer Science with Ching Y. Suen and Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Jason Pacheco (Co-director)

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Postdoc with John Fisher III , MIT CSAIL
Ph.D. in Computer Science with Erik Sudderth , Brown University

Rouzbeh Behnia (Co-director)

Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

Ph.D. in Computer Science with Attila Yavuz , University of South Florida
Internship in VISA Research
MS in Computer Science with Swee Huay Heng, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Jeremiah Birrell (Co-director)

Assistant Professor, Texas State University
Postdoc at TRIPODS Institute for Theoretical Foundations of Data Science , University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona

Students

Alysson De Oliveira Silveira

Ph.D. student (jointly supervised by Anol Bhattacherjee)

Shafayet Shariar Hossain

Ph.D. student (jointly supervised by Balaji Padmanabhan)

Collaborators from the AI Lab at University of Arizona (Supervised by Dr. Hsinchun Chen)

Founder’s Bio, CV

Reza Ebrahimi

ebrahimim[ at ]usf.edu

Reza is an assistant professor and the director of Star-AI Lab at School of Information Systems and Management (SISM) at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arizona, where he was a research assistant at the Artifical Intelligence (AI) Lab conducted by Regents’ Professor Hsinchun Chen. In 2016, He received his Master’s in Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His Ph.D. Thesis targets two interconnected research areas: Security of AI and AI for Security. His Master’s thesis leveraged crime data mining to enhance juveniles’ safety in the cyberspace.

Reza has published over 35 articles in peer reviewed security journals, conferences, and workshops, including NeurIPS, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TDSC, IEEE S&PW, AAAIW, IEEE ISI, IEEE ICDMW, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Digital Forensics, MIS Quarterly, and JMIS. He has been serving as a Program Chair and Program Committee member in IEEE ICDM Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MLC) and IEEE S&P Workshop on Deep Learning Security and Privacy (DLSP), respectively. He has contributed to several projects supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the ACM, AAAI, and AIS.