Mai Abdelhakim, PhD

1230 Benedum Hall | 3700 O’Hara Street | Pittsburgh, PA 15261 P: 412-383-5767

maia@pitt.edu Assistant Professor

Biography: Mai Abdelhakim is an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer (ECE) engineering at Swanson school of engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University. Prior to joining ECE, she was a faculty member at the school of computing and information at the University of Pittsburgh. She was a postdoctoral research scientist at OSRAM (2015-2016) and a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University (2014-2015). Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, machine learning, stochastic systems modeling, and information theory.

Cyber Physcial Systems Security

Dr. Abdelhakim’s research focuses on IoT and Cyber physcial systems (CPSs) security, reliability, and efficiency. Her research combines cybersecurity, communication networks, and data science. It includes modeling security threats, assessing trust in a network and developing methods for identifying anomalies. This research leverages stochastic modeling, machine learning and information theory to build secure, reliable, and efficient CPS systems, with application to energy systems, autonomous vehicles, and cybermanufacturing.