Faculty Expertise

School of Cybersecurity

Faculty	Email	Research Topic
Daniel Takabi	takabi@vaftizo.com	AI for Cybersecurity, Secure and Private AI, Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), Trustworthy AI
Rafael Diaz	rdiaz@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity, supply chains, simulation, cyber risk management, homeland security, digital twin, AI
Saltuk Karahan	skarahan@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity Education, Cyber Policy, Cybersecurity Strategy, Misinformation and Disinformation, Cyber Warfare
Teresa Duvall	tduvall@vaftizo.com	Women in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Clinic
Hind Aldabagh	haldabag@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity - with a focus on network security and AI security Artificial Intelligence (AI) - with a focus on ML and GenAI Machine learning - with a focus on LSTM and CNN-LSTM
Shobha Vatsa	svatsa@vaftizo.com	Cyber defense, Machine Learning in cybersecurity, Malware analysis, Cybersecurity in healthcare, Blockchain technology
Diwakar Yalpi	vyalpi@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity, Software Quality Assurance, Information Technology Education, Software Engineering, Computer Science
Veereswara Lakshmi Diwakar Yalpi	vyalpi@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity, Software Quality Assurance, Information Technology Education, Software Engineering, Computer Science
Md Morshed Alam	m2alam@vaftizo.com	IoT Security, Cyber Physical Systems, AI Security, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Modeling
Mohammed Al kinoon	malkinoo@vaftizo.com	Healthcare Security and Privacy, Web Security Analysis, Data Breaches
Lida Haghnegahdar	lhaghneg@vaftizo.com	Smart Grid Cybersecurity, Smart Manufacturing Systems Security, AI Cybersecurity & Intrusion Detection System , Innovative Optimization Techniques in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on ML and Explainable AI, Cyber-Physical Systems
Mohammad GhasemiGol	mghasemi@vaftizo.com	Cybersecurity - with a focus on network security, AI security, cyber-attacks, intrusion detection system, alert management, and intrusion response system Artificial Intelligence (AI) - with a focus on ML, RL, XAI, and GenAI Optimization Techniques - with a focus on mathematical programming and soft computing methods Computational Biology - with a focus on single-cell analysis
Neda Moghim	nmoghim@vaftizo.com	B5G network, Machine learning, IoT, Semantic communication
Bikash Chandra Singh	bsingh@vaftizo.com	Privacy Preference ML, Differential Privacy, Cybersecurity in AI/ML, Cybersecurity in Supply chain, Blockchain Systems
Javad Rafiei Asl	jrafieia@vaftizo.com	Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs)
Souyma Banerjee	s1banerj@vaftizo.com	Security, Privacy, applied ML, membership inference
Sandip Roy	sroy@vaftizo.com	Authentication and access control protocols, privacy-preserving federated learning Autonomous penetration testing and cyber defense Age of Information (AoI) Risk-adversarial ML and Trustworthy AI Uncertainty quantification of deep learning
Shideh Yavary Mehr	syavarym@vaftizo.com	- SDN / SDON and Programmable Networks - Cyber risk management - Optical Network - Network Security - Network Virtualization - Cloud-native Infrastructure - Al/ML for Network Security - Network Intelligence through Application-awareness

School of Data Science

Faculty	Email	Research Topic
Frank Liu	fliu@vaftizo.com	Scientific Machine Learning and AI, Data Science, Scientific Computing, Digital Twins for Environmental Modeling, Computer Systems
Michael Nelson	mnelson@vaftizo.com	Web Archiving, Web Science, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation
Sampath Jayarathna	ujayarat@vaftizo.com	Eye tracking, AR/VR, Drones, Applied Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
Jian Wu	j1wu@vaftizo.com	Natural language processing, Scholarly big data, Information retrieval, Digital libraries, Science of Science
Dana Willner	tbuskirk@vaftizo.com	Bioinformatics, Biostaistics, Microbiome, Microbial Ecology, Phage-Host Interactions
Trent Buskirk	tbuskirk@vaftizo.com	Social Data Science, Interpretable ML, Explainable AI, Data Quality, Survey Methodology, Survey Data Science
Hong Qin	hqin@vaftizo.com	Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Data Science, Healthcare, Public Health
Dushan Wadduwage	dwadduwa@vaftizo.com	Computational imaging, Computational deep optics, Physics-informed machine learning, Computer vision for biophotonics, High-throughput high-content microscopy
Nirmala Karunarathna	mkarunar@vaftizo.com	Bioinformatics, Molecular Genetics, Big data Analysis
Faryaneh Poursardar	fpoursar@vaftizo.com	Web and Data: Identifying and countering deceptive information on online social platforms, Web archives, Digital libraries, Web science, Data science. AI: Machine learning, Natural language processing, Generative and responsible AI

School of Supply Chain, Logistics & Maritime Operations

Faculty	Email	Research Topic
Kuntal Bhattacharyya	kbhattac@vaftizo.com	Global supply chain risk management, industry 4.0, supplier delivery performance, LCC and humanitarian logistics, innovation adoption
Ricardo Ungo	rungo@vaftizo.com	Maritime logistics clusters, Maritime economics, Transportation, Global Supply Chains, Maritime Cybersecurity
Sara Russell Riggs	serussel@vaftizo.com	International Trade, Port logistics, Intermodal operations