Aziz Mohaisen

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Cyber Security and Privacy Faculty Cluster
4000 Central Florida Blvd.,
Orlando, Florida 32816-2362, USA

Teaching: Fall 2017: CIS 4615,
Service: Please consider submitting your work and/or attending. PC: NDSS 2018, INFOCOM 2018, ASIA CCS 2018, DCOSS 2018, ICWSM 2018, ICC 2018. Chair: ACM SCC 2018, IEEE ICC 2019 (security track).

Openings: We are looking for talented Postdoctoral Scholars (Preeminent Postdoctoral Program), and mutiple motivated Ph.D. students (Blockchain, IoT security, software security). Contact me (lastname at sign ucf.edu) if interested to learn more.

Biography: Aziz Mohaisen is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. Before joining UCF, he was a researcher at ETRI, a (senior) researcher at Verisign Labs, and a faculty member at SUNY Buffalo. He works on computer security and privacy with applications to malware, denial of service attacks, domain name system, Internet of Things, Blockchain, and mobile systems. He is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE (DBLP and Google Scholar)

Editorial Board: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ETRI Journal (Wiley) (submit your best work)

▬ Recent Updates

04/2018: Jeff accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Niagara University. Inching to graduation!
04/2018: I was elevated to the rank of ACM senior member (IEEE senior member since 2015).
04/2018: FC2 funded our project on mobile security training (joint with Karim Elish from Florida Poly). Thanks FC2!
04/2018: Served as an offense to the defense of An Wang (GMU) and Amirali Sanatinia (NEU)! Well done! Congrats!
04/2018: One paper accepted in SECURECOMM 2018. Congratulations to Afsah and Amin!
04/2018: Two papers accepted in IEEE ICDCS 2018. Congratulations to Sungha, Youngdon, and Shinyoung!
03/2018: Incremental funding from AFRL for blockchain research! Thanks AFRL!
04/2018: Ahmed will be funded by an ORC fellowship for 2018/2019! Congrats, Ahmed.
03/2018: FC2 funded our project on thwarting APTs in IoT (joint with My T. Thai from UF). Thanks FC2!
02/2018: We welcomed Ashar, Jinchun, Jiyoo, and Ahmed for their Ph.D. studies.
02/2018: Two papers accepted at ICASSP 2018 (QoI and DigitalSEAL). Congrats to Jeman, Hisham, and Changhun.
01/2018: Two papers were accepted in IEEE Trans on Dependable and Secure Computing. Congrats to An and Wentao
01/2018: I was invited to the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Submit your best work!
11/2017: NSF funded our work on understanding abuse of privacy enhancing technology. Thanks NSF!
11/2017: I am co-chairing The 6th Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (ACM ASIACCS-SCC). Consider attending!.
11/2017: Jeman won 3rd place in KOCSEA Poster competition
10/2017: Papers accepted: NDSS 2018, ICC 2018, and ICOIN 2018. Congrats to Saad, Zhongjie, Sixu, Jeff, and Jeman.
08/2017: NVIDIA donated GPUs for our research work on malware analysis. Thanks NVIDIA!
08/2017: Afsah, Amin, Hisham, and Saad joined for their Ph.D. studies.
08/2017: We received funding from AFRL to pursue research on blockchain security. Thanks AFRL!
08/2017: One paper accepted at the SECURECOMM 2017. Congrats to An and Wentao!
08/2017: Two papers accepted at ACM HotWeb 2017. Congrats to Jeff and Omar!
08/2017: One paper appearing in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (DNS measurement)
08/2017: I moved to UCF as an Associate Professor (from the exquisite city of Buffalo!!!).
06/2017: Five papers, a demo and a poster @ IEEE ICDCS 2017. Congrats to Jeff, Jiyoo, Feng, Si, An, and Chaowen!
05/2017: One paper presented at IEEE INFOCOM 2017. Congrats to Fan!
01/2017: One research paper @ Financial Cryptography 2017 (privacy-preserving graph analytics)! Way to go, Qian!.
01/2018: Openings for a postdoctoral researcher and several Ph.D. students. Email mohaisen@ucf.edu to learn more.