Curriculum Vitae

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor
    Pennsylvania State University · 2026 – Present
  • Assistant Professor
    Pennsylvania State University · 2022 – 2026
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Houston · 2017 – 2022
  • Research Assistant Professor
    Vanderbilt University · 2016 – 2017
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
    University of California, Berkeley · 2015 – 2016
  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
    Vanderbilt University · 2014 – 2015
  • Visiting Research Scholar
    Pennsylvania State University · 2013
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Summa cum Laude
    CrySyS Lab, Budapest University of Technology and Economics · 2011 – 2014
  • M.Sc. in Computer Engineering with Honors
    Budapest University of Technology and Economics · 2009 – 2011
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering with Honors
    Budapest University of Technology and Economics · 2005 – 2009
Talks and Panels
  • Panel on Coordination and Consolidation Across S&CC Projects
    2024 NSF Smart and Connected Communities PI Meeting · Feb 2024
  • Data-Driven Optimization of Public Transit Services with Mixed Fleets of EVs and ICEVs
    Urban Tech Academy 2023 at Cornell Tech · Nov 2023
  • New Directions on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition for Cyber Deception
    Future of Cyber Deception ARO Workshop at CMU · Oct 2023
  • Blockchain Panel – Smart Contract Security & Privacy
    NTT Research Summit · Sep 2021
  • Blockchain-based Smart Contracts: Security Challenges and Correct-by-Design Development
    Joint Workshop of NTT Labs and NTT Research · Dec 2019
  • Economics of Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: Market Mechanisms in Bug Bounty Programs and Platforms
    Workshop on Competitive Economics of Cybersecurity at Sandia National Laboratories · Nov 2018
  • Resilient and Trustworthy Transactive Platform for Smart and Connected Communities
    18th Annual High Confidence Software and Systems Conference (HCSS 2018) · May 2018
  • Games of Timing for Security
    Session on Game Theory in Security and Privacy at the 2017 INFORMS Conference · Jan 2017
  • Vulnerability of Transportation Networks
    Smart Cities Workshop at the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2015) · Dec 2015
Teaching
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning (IST 597)
    Pennsylvania State University · Spring 2025
  • Introduction to Data Sciences (DS 200)
    Pennsylvania State University · Fall 2022 – Fall 2023, Fall 2024
  • Data Mining II (IST 558)
    Pennsylvania State University · Spring 2024
  • Cybersecurity (COSC 3371)
    University of Houston · Fall 2019 – Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
  • Foundations of Security (COSC 6347)
    University of Houston · Fall 2020, Fall 2021
  • Web Security (COSC 4371)
    University of Houston · Spring 2018 – Spring 2019
  • Computer Organization (CS 2231)
    Vanderbilt University · Spring 2017
  • Network Security (CS 4285 / CS 5285)
    Vanderbilt University · Fall 2016
  • Security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CS 396-02)
    Vanderbilt University · Spring 2015
Academic Service

Program Chair

  • SMARTCOMP 2023 (8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing)
  • DI-CPS 2023 (3rd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems at CPS-IoT Week 2023)
  • DI-CPS 2022 (2nd Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems at CPS-IoT Week 2022)
  • DI-CPS 2021 (1st Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems at CPS-IoT Week 2021)
  • TREC4CPS 2018 (1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Real-time Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems)

General Chair

  • BlockNet 2020 (ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Blockchain for Network Resource Sharing)

Program Committee Member

  • NeurIPS 2026 (40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
  • ICML 2026, Gold Reviewer (43rd International Conference on Machine Learning)
  • IJCAI-26 (35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICLR 2026 (14th International Conference on Learning Representations)
  • AAAI-26 (40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • NeurIPS 2025 (39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
  • IJCAI-25 (34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICLR 2025 (13th International Conference on Learning Representations)
  • AAAI-25 (39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • NeurIPS 2024 (38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
  • DESTION 2024 (6th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT at IEEE/ACM CPS-IoT Week)
  • IJCAI-24 (33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • AAMAS 2024 (23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • AAAI-24 (38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • NeurIPS 2023 (37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
  • IJCAI-23, Distinguished PC Member Recognition (32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICCPS 2023 (14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • AAMAS 2023 (22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • AAAI-23 (37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • DESTION 2022 (4th Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT at IEEE/ACM CPS-IoT Week)
  • IJCAI-22, Distinguished PC Member (Top 3%) Recognition (31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • AAMAS 2022 (21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • AAAI-22, Senior PC Member (36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2021 (12th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • AAMAS 2021 (20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • FC21 (25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security)
  • AAAI-21 (35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2020 (11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • ICBC 2020 (2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency)
  • AAMAS 2020 (19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • FC20 (24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security)
  • AAAI-20 (34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2019 (10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • WEIS 2019 (18th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)
  • AAMAS 2019 (18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • HotSoS 2019 (6th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security Symposium)
  • FC19 (23rd International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security)
  • AAAI-19 (33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2018 (9th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • AAMAS 2018 (17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • WEIS 2018 (17th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)
  • AAAI-18 (32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2017 (8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • WEIS 2017 (16th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)
  • AAAI-17 (31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • GameSec 2016 (7th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • IJCAI-16 (25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • SecMAS 2016 (AAMAS-16 Workshop on Security and Multi-Agent Systems)
  • FC16 (20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security)
  • GameSec 2015 (6th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)
  • WEIS 2015 (14th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)
  • WEIS 2014 (13th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security)

Work-in-Progress Track Chair

  • HotSoS 2021 (8th Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security)

Tutorial Chair

  • ICBC 2020 (2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency)

Publicity Chair

  • GameSec 2015 (6th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security)

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Computer
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Power Engineering Letters
  • IEEE Software
  • IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Automatica
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Computers & Security
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • International Journal on Software & Systems Modeling
  • Journal of Big Data
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Cybersecurity
  • Mathematical Social Sciences
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Telematics and Informatics Reports

Conference Reviewer

  • KDD 2025 (31st SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
  • ECAI 2023 (26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICML 2022 (39th International Conference on Machine Learning)