Mahdieh Zabihimayvan

About me

I am an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Wright State University in May 2020. My doctoral dissertation is entitled "New Perspectives About The Tor Ecosystem: Integrating Structure With Information" and contributes insights into the logical structure of Tor, the types of information hosted on this network, and the interplay between its structure and information. 

I work on the applications of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity with the aim of improving proactive cyber threat intelligence applications in protecting privacy of Internet users. I am particularly interested in applied machine learning and characterization, measurements, and analytics for complex cyber-security and socio-technical systems.

    Honors and Awards

• Excellence in Teaching (Honor Roll) award, CCSU, 2022, 2024

• Anita Borg Scholarship, Grace Hopper Celebration, Houston, Texas, 2018

• CRA-W Grad Cohort Scholarship, CRA-W Grad Cohort, San Francisco, California, 2018

• Top M.Sc. Software Engineering graduate researcher, Dept. of Computer and Information Technology, Intl. University of Imam Reza, 2017

• Best paper award, “Detection of Web site visitors based on fuzzy rough sets”, Dept. of Computer and Information Technology, Intl. University of Imam Reza, 2016

• Top 2nd of graduating M.Sc., Dept. of Computer and Information Technology, Intl. University of Imam Reza, 2014

• Ranked 2nd in Nationwide Azad university entrance exam for graduate studies, 2011

• Ranked in top 1% in Iranian National University entrance exam, 2006