I am a software security researcher and entrepreneur. My research interests primarily revolve around the confluence of program analysis and cybersecurity. To assess the safety and security of applications in emerging fields such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Android, I utilize a mix of static and dynamic analysis, symbolic execution, and formal verification methods.

I am a research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was fortunate to work with Prof. Somesh Jha and Prof. Thomas Reps on software debloating and Adversarial Machine Learning.

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

⭐ What can I bring?⭐

Research Experience: ISSTA'20 (best paper award), USENIX'22, EuroS&P'22, NeurIPS'22 (oral-designated), INFOCOM’19, TIFS'20 and TSE22&23.
Successful collaboration with great researchers from academia, industry, and research labs.
Teaching Experience: delivering Security and Network courses and interest in delivering Software Supply Chain Security.
Mentoring Experience: 2 undergrads, 5 MSc, 3 PhD. One of my mentees sent me this message "Thank you for being a great mentor and showing me the ropes to research. You will always be a fundamental keystone in whatever career I pursue, by being my very first boss. I really do appreciate all that you have done and our time working together."
Open-source and reproducibility advocate: my academic tools are publically available.
Innovation Experience: 2 filed patents and Tech Transfer.
Entrepreneurship & Startup Experience: $500K pre-seed funding, launching a startup, developing MVP, hiring the team, getting first customer, and defining products roadmap.
Diversity Embracement: working in Netherlands, Singapore, UK, and US

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]

Entrepreneurship & Industry:

FitStack. Co-founded in Sept, 2022 and is the product of my postdoc work with Prof. Somesh
Jha at UW-Madison. FitStack received $500k through the Varsity Venture
Studio established by Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
(WARF) and High-Alpha Innovation.
Industry certificates: CISSP, CEH, Security+, CCNP Security, and Cisco Instructor

Academic Service:

I serverd as a reviewer and external reviewer in the following conferences and journals: 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.
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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