Current students:
Arman Hossain (PhD) Expected graduation (2029) (Research focus: LLMs for malware analysis)
Emilia Rivas (PhD) Expected graduation (2029) (Research focus: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning)
Sabrina Saika (PhD) Expected graduation (2028) (Research focus: Uncertainty in Reinforcement Learning)
Ivan Montoya Sanchez (MS) Expected graduation (2025) (Research focus: LLMs for multimodal and few-shot malware detection)
Jihoon Shin (MS) Expected graduation (2026) (Research focus: Uncertainty-aware Meta-adaptation for cyber-threat detection)
The main topics of research that I am involved in are as follows:
1. Neuro-symbolic AI for Cybersecurity (Knowledge graphs and Machine Learning)
2. Adversarial Machine Learning
3. Modeling cyber-attacks and defenses
4. Reinforcement Learning
5. Natural Language Processing
6. Large Language Models
If you are a student, and you are interested in working with me, please send me an email at apiplai@utep.edu with your CV and a document outlining
1. What you want to work on
2. How does your future research align with any of the topics that you see above?
3. [Optional] A high-level architecture diagram of the problem you want to solve (if you have one in mind) and your solution