Daniel Takabi
Coastal Virginia Node Director | Old Dominion University
Current University
Old Dominion University
Research Areas
AI security and privacy; privacy enhancing technologies; computation over encrypted data; and usable security and privacy.
Background
Takabi is director of ODU’s School of Cybersecurity, as well as the Batten Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity and professor of electrical and computer engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh and previously served as founding director of the Information Security and Privacy: Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) Center at Georgia State University.
Under his leadership, ODU has received designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R), Cyber Operations (CAE-CO), and Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) by the National Security Agency, becoming the 11th university to receive all three CAE designations since the program’s establishment in 1999.
He has published more than 100 conference and journal papers and has received more than $19 million in funding from such sponsors as NSF, NSA, DOD, ARO, and Microsoft.
Alma Mater
University of Pittsburgh