The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Mustafa Abdallah

 Mustafa Abdallah

Title

Assistant Professor 

Education

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 8/2022
MS, Engineering Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 7/2016
BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 7/2012 

Research Areas

Game Theory for Proactive Security Human Decision-Making in CPS Security Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems 

Notable Awards

Editor’s Choice Article, Sensors, 2024
1st Year Research Immersion Program (1RIP) Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI, 2023
EMPOWER Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI, 2023
Purdue Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, 2021
Dependable Computing Systems Lab Group Champ Award, Purdue University, 2020
Travel Support Awards for attending American Control Conference, 2019
Best Fresher in DCSL Research Group, Purdue University, 2017
M.Sc. fellowship, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2012 − 2016
Best Computer Engineering Graduation Project of the year, Smart Village, Egypt, 2012
Undergraduate Academic Outstanding Award from the Egyptian Government, 2010 

Notable Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Control Systems Society 

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NK4Ok1IAAAAJ&hl=en 

Biography

Mustafa Abdallah is a tenure-track assistant professor at Computer and Information Technology (CIT) department at Purdue University in Indianapolis. He has also a courtsey appointment at CIT department at Purdue Polytechnique Institute. Before joining Purdue, he has been a tenure-track assistant professor at CIT department at IUPUI since August 2022. He earned his PhD from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in July 2022. His PhD research focused at predicting the effects of human decision-making biases in securing cyber-physical systems (CPS) and designing practical learning algorithms to mitigate such effects.

Dr Abdallah's research interests include game theory, behavioral decision-making, explainable AI, meta-learning, and deep learning, with applications including proactive security of CPS, anomaly detection in internet of things (IoT) and autonomous driving systems, and network intrusion detection. Aspects of his research contributions have been recognized by a Bilsland Fellowship from Purdue University, which is awarded to students of the highest academic and professional caliber department-wide. His research work appeared in premium security conferences and prestigious cybersecurity and AI journals, including IEEE S&P, IEEE TCNS, ACM AsiaCCS, IEEE IoT-J, Computers & Security, ACM TKDD, ACM CIKM, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE SRDS, IEEE CDC, and among others. He has also received several travel grants from IEEE conferences and two internal grants from IUPUI.

During his career thus far, Dr. Abdallah has had several experiences for conducting industrial research. First, he was a data science research intern at Adobe Research during summer 2021 in which he proposed a meta-learning approach for automating time-series forecasting model selection pipelines for reducing cloud costs. Second, during summer 2020, he worked as data and operations research scientist at Principal Financial Group where I developed Kalman filter model to predict future financial status of the companies for enhanced financial asset allocation. Third, he worked as part-time R&D engineer in RDI company (in Egypt) for five years where I had experience on applying deep learning techniques for enhancing the performance of computer aided pronunciation systems for several products. Such experiences led to US patent, several research papers, and expanded his network of collaborators.