David Mohaisen

David Mohaisen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), with joint appointments in Computer Engineering and Modeling and Simulation, and Director of the SEAL (Security, Emerging Technologies, AI, and Learning) research group. His research focuses on security and privacy, with emphasis on machine learning and AI for security, software and networked systems, IoT and wearables, and distributed ledger technologies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2012 and brings substantial industry R&D experience from prior roles as a research engineer at ETRI (South Korea) and a senior research scientist at VeriSign Labs. His research integrates foundational, system-level, and data-driven approaches across security and privacy and has appeared in top venues including IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and PoPETs, with media coverage by MIT Technology Review, CBS News, Scientific American, and The Register. Dr. Mohaisen has received multiple honors, including the Faculty Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Award (2025) and Teaching and Research Incentive and Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards (2022). He serves on technical program committees of leading security and AI conferences, has held editorial roles with premier IEEE journals, has been Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet, is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an IEEE Computer Society Visiting Lecturer, and a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE.