Mahmood Sharif

Mahmood Sharif is a principal researcher in the NortonLifeLock Research Group and an adjunct research fellow in the Institute for Software Research, as well as in the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are primarily at the intersections of computer security and privacy with machine learning, specifically adversarial machine learning, and with human factors. Mahmood obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU, and B.Sc. (via the Etgar/"Challenge" program) and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Haifa. Mahmood is the recipient of two CyLab Presidential Fellowships and a Symantec Research Labs Fellowship. His work has been covered in the popular press, including by the MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, and the National Public Radio.