J. Haadi Jafarian

J. Haadi Jafarian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, where he leads the Active Cyber and Infrastructure Defense (ACID) Lab. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2017.

Research Interests:

• Active Cyber Defense (Moving Target Defense, Cyber Deception)
• Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Security for Cyber-Physical Systems & Critical Infrastructures
• Cyber Resilience and Automation

Recent Publications highlight innovations in traffic obfuscation, adversarial machine learning, and deception-based threat detection. His work spans network security, cybersecurity analytics, and scalable defense frameworks.

Teaching includes:

• CSCI 4743/5743: Cyber and Infrastructure Defense (Fall 2023)
• CSCI 4742/5742: Cyber Programming and Analysis (Spring 2023)
• CSCI 4741: Cybersecurity Principles (Spring 2022)
• CSCI 4800: Web Application Development (Spring 2021)
• CSCI 3761: Computer Networks (Spring 2020)

Labs & Teams:
The ACID Lab focuses on developing proactive cyber defense strategies, including moving target defense, deception techniques, and security analytics for critical infrastructure.