Associate Professor · Director
Dr. Nick Rahimi
Rahimi leads research in cyber systems security, trustworthy AI, brain-computer interfaces, and decentralized computing at Southern Miss.
Cyber Innovation Lab
People
Faculty, doctoral researchers, undergraduates, and alumni working across cybersecurity and computing.
Leadership
Lab director
Current team
Ph.D. researchers
Ph.D. researcher
Oluseyi Olukola
Adversarial machine learning, intrusion detection and trustworthy AI
Ph.D. researcher
Derek Taylor
E-commerce security, risk management and compliance
Ph.D. researcher
Saeed Alam
Autonomous cyber defense
Ph.D. researcher
Md Nurul Amin
Maritime cyber defense
Ph.D. researcher
Scott Moye
Cybersecurity
PhD Student
Aelin Med
PhD student
Satyam Dwivedi
MS student
Tomas Nader
Human Activity Recognition
Current team
Undergraduate researchers
Undergraduate researcher
Ashim Dahal
Computer vision and multimodal AI
Undergraduate researcher
Ankit Ghimire
Video question answering and graph learning
Beyond the lab
Alumni
Saydul Akbar Murad
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Emporia State University
EEG-to-text decoding and secure LDEPTH-based P2P fog architecture
Sindhuja Penchala
Ph.D. student, University of Alabama
Maximizing Cyber Resilience through Efficient Vulnerability Prioritization: The WBTS Model
Yaju Shrestha
AI Engineer, VOXO
Cache-Augmented Generation in RAG Pipelines: Fast and Memory-Efficient Approach to Multi-Agent Knowledge Query System
Heather Dixieanna Broome
Ph.D. student, University of Illinois
Reviving the Past: Enhancing Language Models with Historical Text Optimization
Luana De Jesus Ferreira
Lab alumna
Rethinking News Classification Through a Multi-Dimensional Framework
Nyzaireyus Harrison
Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Adversarial attack optimization for machine learning-based dark web traffic analysis