Faculty Expertise

School of Cybersecurity

Faculty Email Research Topic

Daniel Takabi

takabi@odu.edu

AI for Cybersecurity, Secure and Private AI, Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), Trustworthy AI

Rafael Diaz

rdiaz@odu.edu

Cybersecurity, supply chains, simulation, cyber risk management, homeland security, digital twin, AI

Saltuk Karahan

skarahan@odu.edu

Cybersecurity Education, Cyber Policy, Cybersecurity Strategy, Misinformation and Disinformation, Cyber Warfare

Teresa Duvall

tduvall@odu.edu

Women in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Clinic

Hind Aldabagh

haldabag@odu.edu

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@odu.edu

Cyber defense, Machine Learning in cybersecurity, Malware analysis, Cybersecurity in healthcare, Blockchain technology

Diwakar Yalpi

vyalpi@odu.edu

Cybersecurity, Software Quality Assurance, Information Technology Education, Software Engineering, Computer Science

Veereswara Lakshmi Diwakar Yalpi

vyalpi@odu.edu

Cybersecurity, Software Quality Assurance, Information Technology Education, Software Engineering, Computer Science

Md Morshed Alam

m2alam@odu.edu

IoT Security, Cyber Physical Systems, AI Security, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Modeling

Mohammed Al kinoon

malkinoo@odu.edu

Healthcare Security and Privacy, Web Security Analysis, Data Breaches

Lida Haghnegahdar

lhaghneg@odu.edu

Smart Grid Cybersecurity, Smart Manufacturing Systems Security, AI Cybersecurity &聽 Intrusion Detection System , Innovative Optimization Techniques in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on ML and Explainable AI, Cyber-Physical Systems

Mohammad GhasemiGol

mghasemi@odu.edu

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@odu.edu

聽B5G network, Machine learning, IoT, Semantic communication

Bikash Chandra Singh

bsingh@odu.edu

Privacy Preference ML, Differential Privacy, Cybersecurity in AI/ML, Cybersecurity in Supply chain, Blockchain Systems

Javad Rafiei Asl

jrafieia@odu.edu

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Souyma Banerjee

s1banerj@odu.edu

Security, Privacy, applied ML, membership inference

Sandip Roy

sroy@odu.edu

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@odu.edu - SDN / SDON and Programmable Networks
聽 聽- Cyber risk management
聽 聽- Optical Network
聽 聽- Network Security
聽 聽- Network Virtualization
聽 聽- Cloud-native Infrastructure
聽 聽- Al/ML for Network Security
聽 聽- Network Intelligence through Application-awareness

School of Data Science

Faculty Email Research Topic

Frank Liu

fliu@odu.edu

Scientific Machine Learning and AI, Data Science, Scientific Computing, Digital Twins for Environmental Modeling, Computer Systems

Michael Nelson

mnelson@odu.edu

Web Archiving, Web Science, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation

Sampath Jayarathna

ujayarat@odu.edu

Eye tracking, AR/VR, Drones, Applied Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction

Jian Wu

j1wu@odu.edu

Natural language processing, Scholarly big data, Information retrieval, Digital libraries, Science of Science

Dana Willner

tbuskirk@odu.edu

Bioinformatics, Biostaistics, Microbiome, Microbial Ecology, Phage-Host Interactions

Trent Buskirk

tbuskirk@odu.edu

Social Data Science, Interpretable ML, Explainable AI, Data Quality, Survey Methodology, Survey Data Science

Hong Qin

hqin@odu.edu

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Data Science, Healthcare, Public Health

Dushan Wadduwage

dwadduwa@odu.edu

Computational imaging, Computational deep optics, Physics-informed machine learning, Computer vision for biophotonics, High-throughput high-content microscopy

Nirmala Karunarathna

mkarunar@odu.edu

Bioinformatics, Molecular Genetics, Big data Analysis

Faryaneh Poursardar

fpoursar@odu.edu

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@odu.edu

Global supply chain risk management, industry 4.0, supplier delivery performance, LCC and humanitarian logistics, innovation adoption

Ricardo Ungo

rungo@odu.edu

Maritime logistics clusters, Maritime economics, Transportation, Global Supply Chains, Maritime Cybersecurity

Sara Russell Riggs

serussel@odu.edu

International Trade, Port logistics, Intermodal operations