I am a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. My research is in systems, security, and privacy. My recent research addressed various questions related to ML/AI, malware analysis, web systems, IoT, wearables, and blockchains. I obtained my PhD from the University of Minnesota, in 2012. I spent seven years (in total) before and after attending Minnesota in the research and development industry. At UCF, I direct the Security and Analytics Lab (SEAL), where I have been fortunate to work with several hardworking graduate and undergraduate students.
Doctoral Advisees(1)
- Mohammed Alkinoon (CS)
- Soohyeon Choi (CS)
- Hattan Althebeiti (ECE)
- Ayodeji Adeniran (MST), part-time
- Mohamed Alqadhi (CS)
- Ali Alkinoon (CS)
- Jeffrey Spaulding (2018) → Senior Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Ashar Ahmad (2019) → Director of Research, Clear Village Inc.
- Mo Abuhamad (2020) → Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago
- Hisham Alasmary (2020) → Asst. Prof., King Khalid University
- Rhongho Jang (2020) → Asst. Prof., Wayne State University
- Jeman Park (2020) → Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jinchun Choi (2020) → Researcher, ETRI (South Korea)
- Afsah Anwar (2021) → Asst. Prof., Florida A&M University
- Sultan Alshamrani (2021) → Asst. Prof., Saudi Electronic University
- Muhammad Saad (2021) → Senior Research Scientist, PayPal
- Ahmed Abusnaina (2022) → Research Scientist, Facebook
- Ülkü Meteriz-Yıldıran (2022) → Research Scientist, Facebook
- Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar (2022) → Asst. Prof., PSAU
Teaching: Fall 2022: CAP 5150. Office Hours: (Fall 2022): Fri. 1:00pm-2:00pm.
Current Service: TPC: WWW 2023, IEEE S&P 2023, ACM CCS 2022. EB: IEEE TMC and IEEE TPDS.
Selected Recent Publications
Also see my DBLP and Google Scholar profiles for complete lists- IEE S&P 2023: Three Birds with One Stone: Efficient Partitioning of Interdependent Networks
- ISOC NDSS 2023: A Robust Counting Sketch for Data Plane Intrusion Detection
- ACM CCS 2022: A Scalable and Dynamic ACL System for In-Network Defense
- IEEE VR 2022: A Keylogging Inference Attack on Air-Tapping Keyboards Best Paper Candidate
- IEEE HPCA 2022: Filesystem Encryption or Direct-Access for NVM Filesystems? Let’s Have Both
- IEEE DSN 2022: Minimizing Noise in HyperLogLog-Based Spread Estimation of Multiple Flows
- ACM CIKM 2022: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning using Gaussian Random Trajectory Generation
- ACM RAID 2022: Systematically Evaluating the Robustness of ML-based Malware Detection Systems
- ACM CCS 2021: Revisiting Nakamoto Consensus in Asynchronous Networks
- ACM CCS 2021: SyncAttack: Double-spending in Bitcoin Without Mining Power
- ACM ICS 2021: Optimizing Integrity Tree Updates for Secure NVMs Best Paper Candidate
- IEEE ICCV 2021: Adversarial Example Detection Using Latent Neighborhood Graph
- PoPETS 2020: Multi-χ: Identifying Multiple Authors from Source Code Files
- IEEE ICDCS 2020: Detecting Adversarial Examples in Control Flow Graph-based Malware Classifiers
- IEEE INFOCOM 2020: Adversarial Learning-based Approach to Defend Against Website Fingerprinting
- IEEE INFOCOM 2020: SketchFlow: Per-Flow Systematic Sampling Using Sketch Saturation Event<
- IEEE ICDCS 2019: Adversarial Learning Attacks on Graph-based IoT Malware Detection Systems
IEEE ICDCS 2019 InstaMeasure: Instant Per-flow Detection Using Large In-DRAM Working Set
- IEEE DSN 2019: Where Are You Taking Me? Behavioral Analysis of Open DNS Resolvers
- ACM CCS 2018: Large-Scale and Language-Oblivious Code Authorship Identification
- ISOC NDSS 2018: ABC: Enabling Smartphone Authentication with Built-in Camera
- IEEE ICDCS 2018 ShmCaffe: A Distributed Deep Learning Platform with Shared Memory
- IEEE ICDCS 2017: Defending Against Voice Impersonation Attacks on Smartphones Best Paper
- ISOC NDSS 2016: Uncovering game bots in MMORPGs via self-similarity in the wild
Recent Honors (and Awards)
- 2022 UCF Teaching Incentive Award -- for excellence in teaching
- 2022 UCF Research Incentive Award -- for excellence in research
- 2022 CECS Excellence in Graduate teaching award -- for excellence in graduate teaching
- Best paper award nomineee, IEEE VR 2022
- Best extended abstract award, IEEE DSN 2021
- Best student paper award nomineee, ACM ICS 2021
- Distiniguished TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM (2016-2021)
- Best paper award, IEEE Systems Journal (2020)
Past Teaching
- Fall 2021: CAP 5150 - Foundations of Computer Security and Privacy
- Spring 2021: CAP 6640 - Computer Understanding of Natural Language
- Spring 2021: CAP 5150 - Foundations of Computer Security and Privacy
- Spring 2020: CAP 6640 - Computer Understanding of Natural Language
- Spring 2020: CAP 5150 - Foundations of Computer Security and Privacy
- Spring 2019: CAP 6640 - Computer Understanding of Natural Language
- Spring 2019: CIS 4361 - Secure Operating Systems and Administration
- Fall 2018: CIS 4615 - Secure Software Development and Assurance
- Spring 2018: CAP 6133 - Advanced Topics in Computer Security and Computer Forensics
- Fall 2017: CIS 4615 - Secure Software Development and Assurance
Selected Recent Talks
Contact: HPA2-240, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816, USA. mohaisen@ucf.edu