Short Bio

Paul received his B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, in 1994, the master’s degree in artificial intelligence from the Tehran Polytechnic, and the master’s degree in computer science, the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is currently the Founder and the Director of the Secure AI and Autonomy Laboratory, Co-founder and Assistant Director of Open Cloud Institute, and an Associate Professor with the Departments of Information Systems and Cyber Security and Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) at UTSA.

Research Interest

My research area is machine learning, an approach to Artificial Intelligence that relies on learning from data. I’m broadly interested in inference and causality using graphical and probabilistic deep models in applications such as computer vision, natural language understanding, and cyber analytics.

• AI security
• Knowledge representation
• Probabilistic decision making
• Reinforcement learning

Ph.D. Students

• Isaac Corley at isaac.corley@utsa.edu
• Nafis Tanveer Islam at nafistanveer.islam@utsa.edu
• Mazal Bethany at mazal.bethany@utsa.edu
• Emet Bethany at emet.bethany@utsa.edu
• Paul Young at paul.young@utsa.edu
• Rinu Joseph at rinu.joseph@utsa.edu
• Ana Nunez at ana.nunez@utsa.edu
• Mohammad Bahrami Karkevandi at Mohammad.BahramiKarkevandi@utsa.edu
• Fatemeh Haji at Fatemeh.Haji@utsa.edu

Former Ph.D. Students

• Samuel Silva at samuel.silva@my.utsa.edu
• Henry Chacon at Henry.Chacon@utsa.edu
• Arun Das at arun.das@utsa.edu
• Nihar Bendre at Nihar.Bendre@utsa.edu
• Nima Ebadi at nima.ebadi@utsa.edu
• Gonzalo De La Torre Parra at Gonzalo.DeLaTorreParra@utsa.edu

For more info

For more info about Secure AI Autonomy Lab can be found at our website.