Dr. Karim Elish is an assistant professor of computer science at Florida Polytechnic
University. Before joining Florida Poly in 2016, he was an assistant professor in
the Department of Computer Science and the associate director of the Information Analytics
and Visualization (IAV) Center at Purdue University-Fort Wayne.
Elish is directing the development of curriculum in mobile computing security through
a $70,500 grant received from the Florida Center for Cybersecurity. He has published
several journal and conference papers in his field. One of his journal papers was
placed in the top 10 most cited papers by the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
(JSS). He is serving as a reviewer for many high impact ISI journals such as IEEE
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobil computing (TMC), IEEE Systems Journal,
and others.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Florida Polytechnic University, 2018
Top 5 Finalist, Paul E. Torgersen Research Excellence Award, Virginia Tech, 2014
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, 2014
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2015
M.S. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2011
M.S. in Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 2008
B.S. in Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 2006
Software Security
Mobile Security
Malware Analysis and Detection
Software Engineering
Software Quality Predictive Models
Panelist, National Science Foundation, Proposal Evaluation Panel for Cybersecurity
Education Program
Journal reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Journal reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and
Applications (ICCIA)
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
