Dr.  Mehdi Mirakhorli

Mehdi Mirakhorli is the Director of Research at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (GCI) and a Kodak Endowed Chair and Associate Professor at the Software Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research interests are in the intersection of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity.  Dr. Mirakhorli has served as PI on research and development grants worth over $15 Million.  He has led several large fundamental research and technology transition projects with the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Mirakhorli is an associate editor for the IEEE Transaction in Software Engineering (TSE) and Empirical Software Engineering Journals. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and multiple Distinguished/Best Paper Awards.

Dr. Mirakhorli is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), as well as IEEE Computer Society.

• Secure by Design
  Secure by design is an approach to developing secure software systems from the ground up.  In such an approach,  the alternate security controls and design decisions are first thought;...
• Securing Software Supply Chain
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