Mahmoud Abdelsalam, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Manhattan College. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio under the supervision of Prof. Ravi Sandhu and Dr. Ram Krishnan. I have also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UTSA Institute for Cyber Security (ICS). My research interests include Computer Systems Security, Anomaly and Malware Detection, Cloud Computing Security and Monitoring, Cyber Physical Systems and Applied Machine Learning.

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OS: Ubuntu Linux (MinimalCD)
Editor: Emacs
WM: Awesome
Language: C, Python, PHP, Pascal
Laptop: MacBook Air
Quote:

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie

August'19: Started as an Assistant Professor at Manhattan College.
April'19: Paper "Online Malware Detection in Cloud Auto-scaling Systems Using Shallow Convolutional Neural Networks" is accepted to DBSec 2019.
Feb'19: Started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTSA.
November'18: I successfully defended my PhD dissertation.
July'18: Attending IEEE CLOUD 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA.
May'18: Paper "Malware Detection in Cloud Infrastructures Using Convolutional Neural Networks" is accepted to IEEE CLOUD 2018.
June'17: Attending IEEE CLOUD 2017 conference in Honolulu, HI.
May'17: Paper "Clustering-Based IaaS Cloud Monitoring" is accepted to IEEE CLOUD 2017.