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

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

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

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, Curriculum vitae, and Google Scholar

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Reza is an assistant professor and the director of Star-AI Lab at the School of Information Systems and Management (SISM) at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, where he was a research associate at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab in 2021. He received his master’s degree in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada, in 2016. His Master’s thesis leveraged crime data mining to enhance juveniles’ safety in cyberspace. Reza’s PhD dissertation on AI-enabled cybersecurity analytics won the ACM SIGMIS best doctoral dissertation award in 2021. Reza’s research focuses on statistical and adversarial machine learning for AI-enabled secure and trustworthy cyberspace.

Reza has published 39 articles in peer reviewed security journals, conferences, and workshops, including NeurIPS, ICLR, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TDSC, IEEE S&PW, IEEE ACSAC, 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). He servs as an organizer of 2025 IEEE S&P Workshop on Human-Machine Intelligence for Security Analytics (HMI-SA). 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.