I am a software security researcher and entrepreneur. My research interests primarily revolve around AI and Software Supply Chain Security.

I am currently a Scientist in the Cybersecurity group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the CSE Department at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. Prior to that, I was a Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Somesh Jha and Prof. Thomas Reps on software debloating and machine learning robustness.

I completed my PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I was fortunate to work with Dr. Hamid Bagheri and Dr. Qiben Yan and obtained MSc in Computer Security from the University of Kent. I received ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award and (ISC)2 graduate scholarship.

Research Impact Beyond Academia:
My work extends beyond academic publications to real-world implementation and impact. I have secured over $1.5 USD million in research and commercalization funding, co-founded a startup (FitStack), and had my research tools accepted for tech transfer by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). I hold two issued patents in software and data minimization, and actively release open-source artifacts to support reproducibility and community adoption. I’m passionate about supporting the OSS community by contributing to open-source projects such as Langroid and reporting critical issues in widely-used software supply chain tools like Syft.

Research Areas:

IoT Safety and Privacy: [USENIX’22, IEEE TSE’22, ISSTA’20]
Machine Learning Robustness: [NeurIPS’22]
Android Security: [IEEE TIFS’20, INFOCOM’19]
Software and Container Debloating: [EuroS&P’22], [SIGMETRICS’24]

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Academic Service:

I serverd as a reviewer and external reviewer in the following conferences and journals: S&P’26, CCS’24, Euro S&P’22, USENIX’21, CSF’21, IEEE BigData’20, TIFS’20, TrustCOMM’20, INFOCOMM’17/18, IEEE Cloud Computing 2017, IEEE WCNC 2017.
Postdoc representative in the Postdoc Advisory Committee (Academic Year 2021-2022)
Graduate Students’ representative in the faculty committee (Academic Year 2016-2017)
Graduate students’ representative in the Computer Engineering Committee (Academic Year 2017-2018)

Mohannad Alhanahnah

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