Team

Prof. Myung Lee

Dr. Myung J. Lee received a B.S and an MS from Seoul National University in Korea and a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in electrical/electronics engineering. He is currently a professor at the Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering and a doctoral faculty of computer science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also an adjunct professor at GIST.

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Prof. Tarek Saadawi

TAREK N. SAADAWI received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. from Cairo University Egypt in 1973 and 1975 respectively and the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 (all in Electrical Engineering).  He currently directs the Center of  Information Networking and Telecommunications (CINT) and a Professor teaching courses in Network security, computer networks, local area network, communications systems, and information theory.

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Prof. Ümit Uyar

Dr. Uyar received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and previously worked at AT&T Bell Labs. He has been teaching at City College since 1998 and his research interests include Computational Biology, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Uyar has received numerous research grants from the U.S. Army and National Science Foundation.

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Obinna Igbe

A networking and cybersecurity researcher, Obinna Igbe is affiliated with the Network Security Lab of CINT under the same City College of New York. His research spans across the security of enterprise infrastructures, internet of things, cloud infrastructures, connected vehicles, and smart grids. Currently, Obinna Igbe takes a biological-inspired approach to designing and implementing intrusion detection systems for protecting cyberinfrastructures.

Huseyn Huseynov

Huseyn Huseynov is a software engineer and graduate research assistant at the Grove School of Engineering, where he is working on expanding and enhancing the Cyber Security IDS software. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. Working under the guidance of Dr. Tarek Saadawi at CINT, Huseyn is aimed to develop a highly sophisticated framework for Virtual Machine Introspection.

Oluwaseyi Ajayi

Oluwaseyi Ajayi is a Ph.D. student at the Center of Information Networking and Telecommunications (CINT) research lab, Electrical Engineering Department, CCNY. He obtained his master’s degree in Communication Engineering from the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. He has carried out several types of research in the field of cybersecurity with a special interest in intrusion detection and prevention system. He has published different conference papers in the application of the Artificial Immune System (AIS) in the intrusion detection system (IDS). He is currently working on the application of blockchain technology in cybersecurity. He is interested in detecting malicious activities, enhancing the detection rate of IDS nodes, and securing the shared-data using blockchain technology.

Meryem Abouali

Meryem Abouali is an Electrical engineer and graduate research assistant at the Grove School of Engineering . She is affiliate with the Network Security Lab of the Center for the Information Networking and Telecommunication. Her research Interests: Network Security, IoT security , wireless networks 4G/5G LTE networks.

Saurabh Sachdeva

Saurabh Sachdeva is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Grove School of Engineering and is affiliated with the Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications at CCNY. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree and his research interests include the implementation of blockchain technology for network security, IoT, and cybersecurity. His work is currently focused on the design and development of a blockchain-based system for Smart Grids to enable energy trading in a local energy market.