David Mohaisen

David Mohaisen

Professor, CS [ECE | MST]

Team

Current Members

David Mohaisen, Professor (lab director)

  1. Mohammed Kharma, Ph.D. Candidate (2022–); co-advised
  2. Ahmed Sabbah, Ph.D. Candidate (2022–); co-advised
  3. Niveen Jaffal, Ph.D. Student (2024–); co-advised
  4. Cuong Tran, Ph.D. student (2025–)
  5. Mandana Ghadamian, Ph.D. student (2025–)
  6. Pelumi Ogunwale, Ph.D. student (2025–) ORC Fellow
  7. Khalid Alquonus, Ph.D. student (2025–) SACM Scholar
  8. Steffen Camarato, Ph.D. student (2025–) CSGrad4US Scholar
  9. Mukhtar Jussain, Ph.D. student (2025–) Fulbright Scholar
  10. James Love, B.Sc. student (2025–) SFS Scholar

Alumni

  1. Jeffrey Spaulding (PhD, 2018) → Sr. Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton
  2. Ashar Ahmad (PhD, 2019) → Director of Research, Clear Village Inc.
  3. Mo Abuhamad (PhD, 2020) → Asst. Prof., Loyola University Chicago
  4. Hisham Alasmary (PhD, 2020) → Asst. Prof., King Khalid University
  5. Rhongho Jang (PhD, 2020) → Asst. Prof., Wayne State University
  6. Jeman Park (PhD, 2020) → Postdoc, Georgia Institute of Technology
  7. Jinchun Choi (PhD, 2020) → Postdoc, Texas A&M University
  8. Afsah Anwar (PhD, 2021) → Asst. Prof., Florida A&M University
  9. Sultan Alshamrani (PhD, 2021) → Asst. Prof., Saudi Electronic University
  10. Muhammad Saad (PhD, 2021) → Research Scientist, PayPal
  11. Ahmed Abusnaina (PhD, 2022) → Research Scientist, Facebook
  12. Ülkü Meteriz-Yıldıran (PhD, 2022) → Research Scientist, Facebook
  13. Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar (PhD, 2022) → Asst. Prof.,
  14. Hattan Althebeiti (PhD, CpE, 2023) → Assistant Professor, Tabuk University
  15. Mohammed Alkinoon (PhD, 2024) → Lecturer, Old Dominion University
  16. Mohamed Alqadhi (PhD, 2024) → Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Administration
  17. Ayodeji Adeniran (PhD, MST, 2024) → Architect, LeapXpert
  18. Soohyeon Choi (PhD, 2025) → Research Scientist, Singapore Management University
  19. Aziz Alghamdi (PhD, CpE, 2025) → Assistant Professor, Jazan University
  20. Ahod Alghureid (PhD, 2025) → Assistant Professor, PSAU
  21. Ali Alkinoon (PhD, 2025) → Lecturer (Teaching Faculty), University of Central Florida
  22. Jie Li, Ph.D. (PhD, 2025) → Lecturer (Teaching Faculty), University of Central Florida
  23. Ilkin Isler (PhD, 2025) → Sr. Software Engineer, Universal Creative
  24. Nigel Francis (MS, 2024) → ??
  25. Kieran Human, (MS, 2023) → ThreatLocker
  26. S. Upadhyay (MS, 2020) → Deloitte
  27. Priyanka Gona (MS, 2020) → Amazon
  28. Necip Yildiran (PhD student; 2018–2020, DNF; MS, 2020) → PhD @ UCF (w/ Paul Gazzillo)
  29. Amin Khormali (PhD student; 2018–2020, DNF; MS, 2019) → PhD @ UCF (w/ Peter Yuan)
  30. Victor Cook (PhD student; 2019, DNF) → PhD @ UCF (w/ Damian Dechev)
  31. Joe D’Amato (MS, 2016) → MITRE.
  32. Jesse Freeman (MS, 2016) → DoD
  33. Chris Weeden (MS, 2016) → NIWCP
  34. Woodams Clark (MS, 2016) → DoD
  35. Pranav Jain (MS, 2016) → Qualcomm
  36. Qi Li (MS, 2016), → Facebook
  37. Sachin Mishra (BS, 2025)
  38. Nolan Metcalf (BS, 2025)
  39. Zakaria Antifit (BS, 2025)
  40. Noah Lawton (BS, 2025)
  41. Giullya Souza Santos (BS, 2025)
  42. Ra’Id Naeem (BS, 2025)
  43. William Chen (BS, 2021) → graduate student at CMU
  44. Brett Fazio (BS, 2021) → engineer at 2sigma
  45. M. Young (BS, 2019)
  46. C. Austin (BS, 2018-2019)
  47. D. Stephen (BS, 2019)
  48. C. Tuggle (BS, 2018-2019)
  49. G. Lotz (BS, 2019)
  50. B. Gray (BS, 2017-2018)
  51. S. Ferrell (BS, 2017)
  52. B. Rademaker (BS, 2017)
  53. D. Weidenborner (BS, 2016)
  54. Anho Lee (BS, 2020) -

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

Other Doctoral/MS Students (Committee Member)

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

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)