About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the CST Department at the City University of New York. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. I received my Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where I served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Global Cyber Security Institute under the supervision of Dr.Mehdi Mirakhorli. I earned my M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Shiraz University I have served as a research collaborator with the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST).

Research Interests

My primary research interests lie at the intersection of software security and large language models, with a focus on:

• Attack Surface Analysis
• Vulnerability Detection
• Security applications of large language models

News

Jan 26, 2025

Appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

Aug 29, 2023

I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!

Feb 20, 2023

Defended my PhD proposal.

May 11, 2022

Attended and presented at ICSE2022 in-person at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

Dec 02, 2021

My submission to International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE2022 with Dr. Mirakhorli and Ahmet Okutan titled “A Grounded Theory Based Approach to Characterize Software Attack Surfaces” was accepted in technical track!

May 10, 2020

Passed Research Potential Assessment (RPA).