Dr. Naeini is an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida (USF) since Fall 2017. Before joining USF, she was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Texas Tech University (TTU). Dr. Naeini received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from University of New Mexico (UNM) in 2014. Her research interests include leveraging data analytics, network science, random processes, and signal processing to integrate security and reliability measures as well as socio-behavioral models into the design and control of cyber physical- human (CPH) systems with a focus on smart grids reliability and security. In this domain, some of her recent focuses are graph signal processing and graph-empowered machine learning. Her research has been supported by various funding agencies, including National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Florida Center for Cybersecurity. Dr. Naeini's research results have been published in premier power systems, communication systems, and network science conferences and journals. She has received UNM Outstanding Graduate Student Awards in 2013, TTU New Faculty Award in 2017 for excellence in teaching and research, one of the Best Conference Papers at the IEEE PES General Meeting in 2022, and the NSF CAREER award in January 2023. She has served as the associate editor of the IEEE Communication Letters 2014-2019 and as the technical program committee member of several conferences in the area of power and communication systems. She organized workshops including the workshop on Edge Computing for Cyber Physical Systems at IEEE Globecom 2019 and Edge Computing for Smart Grids Workshop at IEEE SmartGridComm 2020 as co-chair. She is a senior member of IEEE.