Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Consultant
Specialized in NLP and LLMs
Basel Abdeen
CS PhD Candidate
About
- A PhD Candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, researching AI and its application to cybersecurity.
- Leading research on utilizing deep learning and large language models to automate cyber threat intelligence and develop autonomous cyber deception agents.
- PhD research honorably supervised by Dr. Latifur Khan from the University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Ehab Al-Shaer from Carnegie Mellon University.
- An independent AI consultant, offering consultation services for startups and businesses in designing and developing AI, deep learning, and large language models solutions.
Portfolio
Classifying Vulnerabilities and Threat Information to Attacking Techniques Using Contrastive Learning
Automatic Attack Graph Construction From Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports Using LLMs
Large Language Models Hullucination Detection
Utilizing LLMs for Dynamic Cyber Deception of Malicious PowerShell Scripts
Automatic Ontology Construction of Cyber Attack Techniques Using LLMs.
Threat Information Extraction From Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports
Malware Behavior Characterization Using Weakly Supervised Learning
Dynamic Generation of Challenge-Response Questions for Enhanced Email Sender Verification
Cancer Detection and Classification in Stained Tissue Biopsies
Other
Featured Accomplishments
- Received Best Student Paper Award at the Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec'23) for out paper SMET: Semantic Mapping of CVE to ATT&CK and its Application to Cybersecurity.
- Our open-source ATT&CK mapping tool, SMET, has earned 33+ stars on GitHub
- Our huggingface cybersecurity language model, ATT&CK BERT, has surpassed 380,000 downloads.
- Invited by The Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research to present our research at the 2024 CAE-R CoP Research Symposium.
- Assisted in drafting proposals to Army Research Office (ARO) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that were subsequently approved.
- Contributed to projects funded by DARPA, Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and National Science Foundation (NSF).
Resume
Professional Experience
AI Consultant
2023 - Present
Research Assisstant
2021 - Present
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Research Intern
2022
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Research Assisstant
2019 - 2020
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Software Engineer
2018-2019
JoVision, Hamburg, Germany
Software Engineer Intern
2018
Lead technologies, Charlotte, NC
Education
PhD, Computer Science
2021 - Present
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
PhD, Computing and informatics
2019 - 2020
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
2013 - 2018
University of Jordan
Contact
Feel free to contact me through Linkedin or via basel.abdn@gmail.com