Center Co-Director

- Salim Hariri, PhD, (520) 621-4378, [about]

UA Site Director

- Ali Akoglu, PhD, (520) 626-5149, [about]

Research Director

- Sicong Shao, PhD, sicongshao@arizona.edu

University of Arizona Defense and Security Research Institute Program Manager

- Christine Fox, chrisfox@arizona.edu [about]

Affiliated Researchers

Jesus Pacheco, Ph.D., University of Sonora.
Nizar Al-Holou, Ph.D., University of Detroit Mercy.
Mohammad Horani, Mitsubishi.
Ray Doug, Mitsubishi.
Gareth Williams, Mitsubishi.

Research Faculty

Sicong Shao, Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering by State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interest includes machine learning, security, natural language processing, and social media analytics.

Graduate Students

	Theodore Ha, Ph.D. Student Currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona.
	Shalaka Satam, Ph.D. Student Masters of Science student in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the University of Arizona. She is a research assistant in the Autonomic Computing Laboratory (ACL). Her research interest includes security for smart cars.
	Clarisa Grijalva Lugo, Ph.D. student Research areas include cybersecurity for IoT.
	Ibrahim Almazyad, Ph.D. Student Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. His primary focus, presently, is exploring a secure federated framework for cybersecurity studies in the digital twin representation. Further, his interest includes secure critical infrastructures for smart cities, cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and cloud security.
	Ivan Kawaminami, Ph.D. Student His research interests are related to cyberattacks understanding, this include the effect on a device, offline and real-time analysis, automatic responses, and classification using ontologies; all this powered by Machine Learning.
	Safwan Elmadani, Ph.D. Student Current PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the University of Arizona. His research intersts include 5G, Zero-Trust and Blockchain technologies
	Arminda Estrada, Ph.D. student Her research areas include cybersecurity, Digital Rights Management and Blockchain technologies
	Negar Zarei, Ph.D. student Research areas include cybersecurity and game theory.
	Mohammad Wali Ur Rahman M.S Student Masters of Science student in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the University of Arizona. His research interests are in Cybersecurity, Text Mining & Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Neural Networking and Artificial Intelligence. His current research focuses on Social Media Forensics using Artificial Intelligence
	Murad Mehrab Abrar, M.S. student Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Arizona. His research focus is on sensor and communication security for connected, autonomous and unmanned vehicles.