Mustafa Abdallah

Mustafa Abdallah is an Assistant Professor at the Computer and Information Technology (CIT) department of Purdue University in Indianapolis, with a courtesy appointment at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2022) and prior degrees from Cairo University (MS: 2016, BS: 2012).

His research focuses on game theory, behavioral decision-making, explainable AI, and deep learning, applied to cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and IoT anomaly detection. His work has been recognized by the prestigious Bilsland Fellowship and grants from IEEE and IUPUI.

Industrial collaborations include Adobe Research (meta-learning for time-series forecasting), Principal Financial Group (financial risk prediction using Kalman filters), and RDI Company (deep learning for pronunciation systems, resulting in a US patent). He has published extensively in top venues like IEEE S&P, IEEE TCNS, and ACM AsiaCCS.