CIERTA | Amin Kharraz

Assistant Professor

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Office: CASE 320
Email: ak@cs.fiu.edu

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Keywords

Systems security analysis	Malware analysis	Authentication
Social Engineering	Reverse Engineering	Digital Forensics Process
Graph Theory

Biography

Dr. Kharraz is an Assistant Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at FIU, where he directs the Systems Security Lab (https://theseclab.org). His research focuses on advanced malware attacks, web and browser security, and empirical systems security and privacy. He earned his Ph.D. in Systems Security from Northeastern University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Kharraz’s work, funded by Microsoft AI Security, CITES NSF/IUCRC, and the National Security Agency, aims to evaluate the implications of emerging technologies and associated threats at scale using data-driven techniques. He has served on program committees for major security conferences and received the Best Paper Award at the Web Conference (WWW) in 2019 for his research on in-browser cryptojacking. He developed Unveil, a scalable threat intelligence tool that analyzed over 2 million binaries and contributed to 50+ research papers.

For more information, please visit Dr. Kharraz’s FIU profile page here.