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Irfan Ahmed

Irfan Ahmed

Portrait of Irfan Ahmed

Current University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Area

Cybersecurity; currently focusing on digital forensics, malware, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity education. 

Background

Irfan Ahmed is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research group is Security and Forensics Engineering (SAFE) Lab, and he is also a faculty fellow at VCU Cybersecurity Center.

Before VCU, Ahmed was a Canizaro-Livingston Endowed Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of New Orleans (UNO), New Orleans, LA.

He is a recipient of the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, an Outstanding Research Award from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), and the UNO's Early Career Research Prize. His research work has been supported in part by the NSF, NSA, ONR, ARO, ORAU, and VA CCI, and has received three Best Paper Awards at DFRWS'20, ISC'13, and ICRC'11, and an Outstanding Poster Award at CODASPY'16.

Alma Mater

Ajou University, South Korea