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 serves as Director of the SEAL (Security, Emerging Technologies, AI, and Learning) research group. His research interests span security and privacy, with particular emphasis on machine learning and artificial intelligence for security, software and networked systems, Internet of Things and wearable platforms, and blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Dr. Mohaisen received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2012. He brings substantial research and development experience from industry, having previously served as a research engineer at ETRI in South Korea and as a senior research scientist at VeriSign Labs. His research integrates foundational, system-level, and data-driven methodologies to address problems including malware and phishing detection, vulnerability management, adversarial and trustworthy machine learning, large language models for security, privacy-preserving computation, and blockchain security. His work has been published in leading venues such as IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, PoPETs, ICDCS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TMC, and IEEE/ACM TON, and has received broad media coverage, including by MIT Technology Review, CBS News, Scientific American, and The Register. Dr. Mohaisen has received numerous honors, including the Faculty Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Award (2025), Teaching and Research Incentive Awards (2022), and the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (2022), as well as multiple best paper and student paper awards and nominations. He serves on the technical program committees of major security and AI conferences and has held editorial roles with premier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has also served as Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on the Internet, is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a Visiting Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society, and a Senior Member of both ACM and IEEE.