Team Members

Directors

Mohammadreza (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)

Postdoc at TRIPODS Institute for Theoretical Foundations of Data Science , University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
B.S. in Physics, Brigham Young University

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

Mohammadreza (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.