Dr. A.
Khalifah A City, United Arab Emirates · CyberSecurity Researcher · Khalifa University
Sorbonne université
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About
Senior AI Security Researcher and R&D Director with 11+ years building security systems that ship to production, from Samsung flagship devices to autonomous drone platforms.
Currently leading a 10+ team applied research team at the Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi), focused on security for autonomous systems: adversarial ML, Zero Trust architecture, UAV/mesh network security, and threat detection at scale.
Academic credentials: joint Ph.D. from Sorbonne University (Paris) and UFRJ (Brazil) · 1,500+ citations · h-index 20 · 15 journal papers in IEEE/Springer · 1 US Patent · Guest Editor, IEEE JSAC · Best Paper Awards at ECML PKDD 2025 and CSNet.
Active collaborations with Georgia Tech, Purdue, and Caltech. Adjunct Faculty at Khalifa University.
Specialties
- AI / ML Security
- Embedded Security
- IoT Security
- Network Defense
- OT / ICS Security
Experience
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Adjunct Faculty
Khalifa University
Jan 2025 — Present
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Technology Innovation Institute
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Senior Director
Apr 2023 — Present
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Lead Researcher
Oct 2020 — Apr 2023
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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8 experiences in total
Education
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Sorbonne université
Jan 2014 — Jan 2018
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Jan 2014 — Jan 2018
4 education entries in total