Dr. Saxena has been appointed as the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). TIFS is one of the most reputed journals in the area of security. Dr. Saxena earlier served as an Editor of TIFS from 2013-16, in its inception years.
The SPIES lab will have 2 full papers presented at the WebConf (WWW) 2025. Only 409 papers were accepted out of 2062 submissions (acceptance rate of merely 19.8%).
Aftab Hussain recently joined the SPIES lab as a post-doctoral researcher. Welcome on-board!
Aftab Hussain is an
incoming Post Doctoral Researcher at Texas A&M University, having recently completed his PhD defense at the University of Houston. He works on improving the security and reliability of large language models (LLMs) for source code, and his PhD dissertation is on Trojan Detection in LLMs of Code. His PhD research has been funded by a Cybersecurity Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. He has recently presented his research at reputable venues in software engineering and AI, such as AIWare at FSE 2024 and SeT LLM at ICLR 2024. Aftab holds a Master’s degree from the University of California, Irvine in Software Engineering, where he published in top software engineering and security conferences such as ASPLOS and USENIX ATC.
A warm welcome to two new members of the SPIES Lab, starting their PhD degrees in Fall 2024.
The SPIES lab in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University, College Station is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher. SPIES lab, directed by Dr. Nitesh Saxena, is one of the leading academic cybersecurity research labs, broadly focusing on computer and network security, user-centered security (including cognitive security), AI and ML security, and applied cryptography. The selected candidates will work with the PI, the students in the lab and a strong network of collaborators at A&M and other top-tier institutions and industry labs on cutting-edge projects of mutual interest. The candidate will have the opportunity to lead new research projects, define research agenda and work on research proposals submitted to federal and state organizations. As such this is a unique opportunity to enhance the candidate’s research and teaching careers through collaboration building, focused mentorship from the PI, student mentoring engagement and potential teaching opportunities. This is not merely a job but a rare professional development opportunity.
Annual salary: Starting at $72,000 yearly, commensurate to experience.
Duration: 2 years, renewable after the first year.
Start date: Immediate
Qualifications:
Application materials (email to: Nitesh Saxena nsaxena@tamu.edu)
