SEAL Lab

Security • Emerging Technologies • AI • Learning

Current Advisees (and I)

David Mohaisen

PI / Professor

Trung Cuong Dang

PhD Student

Khalid Alqunus

PhD Student

Steffen Camarato

PhD Student

Pelumi Ogunwale

PhD Student

Mandana Ghadamian

PhD Student

Mukhtar hussain

PhD Student

Ahmed Sabbah

PhD Student

Mohammed Kharma

PhD Student

Niveen O. Jaffal

PhD Student

James Love

BS Student

Former Doctoral Students

Jeffrey Spaulding

PhD 2018 (CS) • Sr. Lead Arch., NVIDIA

Ashar Ahmad

PhD 2019 (CS) • Director of Research, Clear Village Inc.

Mo Abuhamad

PhD 2020 (CS) • Assistant Professor, Loyola U. Chicago

Hisham Alasmary

PhD 2020 (CS) • Assistant Professor, King Khalid U.

Rhongho Jang

PhD 2020 (CS) • Assistant Professor, Wayne State U.

Jeman Park

PhD 2020 (CS) • Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee U.

Jinchun Choi

PhD 2020 (CS) • Senior Researcher, ETRI

Afsah Anwar

PhD 2021 (CS) • Assistant Professor, UNM

Sultan Alshamrani

PhD 2021 (CS) • Assistant Professor, SEU

Muhammad Saad

PhD 2021 (CS) • Research Scientist, PayPal

Ahmed Abusnaina

PhD 2022 (CS) • Research Scientist, Meta

Ülkü Meteriz-Yıldıran

PhD 2022 (CS) • Research Scientist, Meta

Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar

PhD 2022 (CS) • Assistant Professor, PSAU

Hattan Althebeiti

PhD 2023 (ECE) • Assistant Professor, Taif University

Mohammed Alkinoon

PhD 2024 (CS) • Postdoctoral Researcher, UCF

Mohammed Alqadhi

PhD 2024 (CS) • Assistant Professor, IPA

Ayo Adeniran

PhD 2024 (MST) • Architect, Insurity

Soohyeon Choi

PhD 2025 (CS) • Scientist, Singapore Management U.

Ali Alkinoon

PhD 2025 (CS) • Lecturer, UCF

Jie Li

PhD 2025 (CS) • Lecturer, UCF

Ahod Alguried

PhD 2025 (CS) • Assistant Professor, PSAU

Aziz Alghamdi

PhD 2025 (ECE) • Assistant Professor, Najran U.

Ilkin Isler

PhD 2025 (CS) • AI Engineer, Universal Creative

Former MS Students

Nigel Francis

MS 2025

Kieran Human

MS 2023 • Summit Broadband

S. Upadhyay

MS 2020 • Deloitte

Priyanka Gona

MS 2020 • Amazon

Necip Yildiran

MS 2020 • PhD @ UCF

Amin Khormali

MS 2019 • PhD @ UCF

Joe D'Amato

MS 2016 • MITRE

Jesse Freeman

MS 2016 • DoD

Chris Weeden

MS 2016 • NIWCP

Woodams Clark

MS 2016 • DoD

Pranav Jain

MS 2016 • Qualcomm

Qi Li

MS 2016 • Facebook

Former BS Students

  1. Sachin Mishra (BS/SDP, 2025)
  2. Nolan Metcalf (BS/SDP, 2025)
  3. Zakaria Antifit (BS/SDP, 2025)
  4. Noah Lawton (BS/SDP, 2025)
  5. Giullya Souza Santos (BS/SDP, 2025)
  6. Ra'Id Naeem (BS/SDP, 2025)
  7. William Chen (BS, 2021)
  8. Brett Fazio (BS, 2021)
  9. Anho Lee (BS, 2020)
  10. M. Young (BS, 2019)
  11. C. Austin (BS, 2018-2019)
  12. D. Stephen (BS, 2019)
  13. C. Tuggle (BS, 2018-2019)
  14. G. Lotz (BS, 2019)
  15. B. Gray (BS, 2017-2018)
  16. S. Ferrell (BS, 2017)
  17. B. Rademaker (BS, 2017)
  18. D. Weidenborner (BS, 2016)

Former Doctoral Students (DNF, Transfer)

  1. Ran Gedawy (2021) — Advised for one year; transferred to UT Knoxville
  2. Saleh Almohaimeed (2021) — Advised for one semester; transferred to Liqiang Wang
  3. Saad Almohaimeed (2021) — Advised for one semester; transferred to Lotzi Boloni
  4. Marwan Omar (2021--2022) — Advised for <1 year; transferred to Gita Sukthankar (DNF)
  5. Necip Yildiran (2018--2020) — Advised for two years; transferred to Paul Gazzillo
  6. Amin Khormali (2017--2019) — Advised for two years; transferred to Peter Yuan
  7. Victor Cook (2017) — Advised for less than a year; transferred to Damian Dechev

Other Doctoral Students (Committee Member)

  1. Hayreddin Ceker. (2017) University at Buffalo
  2. An Wang. (2018) George Mason University (external member; CS)
  3. Amirali Sanatinia. (2018) Northeastern University (external member; CS)
  4. Hossein Rezaeighaleh. (2020) University of Central Florida (CS)
  5. Mazen Alwadi. (2020) University of Central Florida (ECE)
  6. Victor Cook. (2021) University of Central Florida (CS)
  7. Jiayi Chen. (2022) University of Waterloo (external examiner; CS)
  8. Mohammed Alkhowaiter (2023), Electrical and Computer Engineering
  9. Zachary Painter (2024), Computer Science
  10. Ibrahim Alharbi (2024), Computer Science
  11. Ahmed Hariri (2025), Computer Science

Past Postdocs and Visitors

  1. Dr. Ahmed Abdalal, Fulbright Visitor (2022-2023). Assistant Professor @ University of Gaza
  2. Dr. DaeHun Nyang, visitor (2017-2019, multiple visits). Professor at Ewha womans University
  3. Dr. Jihoon Lee, visitor (2019; 1 year). Associate professor at Sangmyung University
  4. Dr. Mohammed Alghamdi, visitor (summer 2019). Associate professor at Um Alqura University
  5. Dr. Ah Reum Kang, Postdoc, 2016 -> Postdoc at UB -> Postdoc Soonchunhyang University
  6. Dr. Omar Al-Ibrahim, Postdoc, 2016 -> tenure-track assistant professor at Kuwait University

Past Interns Hosted at Verisign Labs

  1. Minsuk Kang (Carnegie Mellon University, 2015)
  2. Maliheh Shirvanian (University of Alabama, 2015)
  3. Hesham Mekky (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2014)
  4. Ahmed Kosba (University of Maryland College Park, 2013 and 2014)
  5. Sharath Hiremagalore (George Mason University, 2013 and 2014)
  6. Nektarios Leontiadis (Carnegie Mellon University, 2013)
  7. Md Mansurul Bhuiyan* (Indiana University - Purdue University, 2013)

Major Collaborators

  1. DaeHun Nyang (Ewha Womans University)
  2. Joongheon Kim (Korea University)
  3. Songqing Chen (George Mason University)
  4. Yongdae Kim (KAIST, PhD advisor)
  5. An Wang (CWRU)
  6. Manar Mohaisen (NEIU)
  7. Kui Ren (Zheijiang University)
  8. Charles A. Kamhoua (ARL)
  9. Laurent Njilla (AFRL)
  10. Omar Alrawi (Georgia Tech)
  11. Wentao Chang (Google)
  12. Amro Awad (NCSU)
  13. Dowon Hong (ETRI)
  14. Huy Kang Kim (Korea University)
  15. Tamer Abuhmed (SKKU)
  16. Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota)
  17. KyungHee Lee (Suwon University)
  18. YoungJae Maeng (NSRI)
  19. Changhun Jung (Hyundai)
  20. Max Schuchard (Amazon)
  21. Andrew G. West (Verisign)
  22. Denis Foo Kune (Amazon)
  23. Jong-Kook Kim (Korea University)
  24. Steven Y. Ko (Simon Fraser)
  25. Eugene Y. Vasserman (KSU)
  26. Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota)
  27. Youngtae Noh (Inha University)
  28. Nam-Su Jho (ETRI)
  29. Xinwen Zhang (Huawei)
  30. Qian Wang (Wuhan University)
  31. Justin Del Vecchio (SUNY Buffalo)
  32. Saeed Salem (Qatar University)
  33. Yanhua Li (WPI)
  34. Haiyong Xie (USTC)
  35. Lukasz Ziarek (UB)
  36. Zhongshu Gu (IBM)
  37. Kazi Abu Zubair (Intel)
  38. Hesham Mekky (Snap)
  39. Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua U.)
  40. Mazen Al-Wadi (JUST)
  41. Hyoungshick Kim (SKKU)
  42. My T. Thai (University of Florida)
  43. Myungjae Shin (Korea University)
  44. Myungsun Kim (Suwon University)
  45. Murat Yuksel (UCF)