I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of San Francisco. My research interests include Computer Security, Computer Networks, Computer Science Education. I received my Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at UCLA, where I was a member of Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research. I received my MSc in Computer Science and BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Prior to USF, I was an Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge, and an Adjunct Lecturer at UCLA. In the past, I worked at Symantec, Inc. (on reputation-based security, which was later acquired by Broadcom Inc.), PostPath Inc., (which was later acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.), and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

I am the Director of Networks and Security Laboratory (Nets Lab) at University of San Francisco. I am the recipient of the Fulbright US Scholar Award and will be a Visiting Professor at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria in Spring 2022.

Recent News

06.15.2020	Our paper was among the Best Paper Award Finalists at ITICSE 2020.
06.07.2020	Our paper “Entailing Security Mindset in Foundational CS Courses: An Interactive Approach” was accepted to CCSC MW 2020.
03.11.2020	Our paper “Promoting Diversity-Inclusive Computer Science Pedagogies: A Multidimensional Perspective” was accepted to ITICSE 2020.
03.11.2020	I received the Fulbright US Scholar Award for 2020/21.

You can also find me on Github, Google Scholar, and LinkedIn.

Students

• Alma (Arghavan) Abbasi, MS
• Stephanie Grasso, BS
• Jason Liang, BS

Alumni

• Manali Patil, MS (Now Software Engineer at ZenOptics)
• Rozita Teymourzadeh, MS (Now Senior Software and Electronic Engineer at Azbil)
• Shuangjiao Hu, MS (Now Site Reliability Engineer at WePay)
• Linjing Shao, MS
• Juqiang Li, MS (Now Software Engineer at Apple)
• Paul Kirth, MS (Now PhD Candidate at University of California, Irvine)
• Sina Hesari, MS (Now Software Engineer at Rockwell Collins)
• Eric Vance, MS (Now Software Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Ilia Benson, MS (Now Software System Engineer III at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Adam Clark, MS (Now Senior Software Engineer at Float.com)
• Aren Boghozian, BS (Now Software Engineer at Crane Aerospace & Electronics)
• Mahdi Rahimi, (Now PhD Student at University of Arizona)
• Behnam Pournasr, BS (Now DevOps Engineer at Farmers Insurance)
• Mario Garcia, BS
• Matin Fouladinejad, BS
• Dam Ju Kim, BS
• David Meyer, BS (Now Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at AppFolio)
• Robert Chang, BS (Now Product Manager at Google)