Rouzbeh Behnia is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Systems at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South Florida. His research focuses on different aspects of cybersecurity and applied cryptography. He is particularly interested in addressing privacy challenges in AI systems, developing post-quantum cryptographic solutions, and enhancing authentication protocols to ensure computation and communication integrity. He has published in top security venues such as IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), and USENIX Security Symposium, as well as leading machine learning venues including Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).