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Dr. Al-Shaer serves as a Distinguished Career Professor at the School of Engineering, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science, and a Distinguished Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to his tenure at CMU, he was a Professor and the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Center of Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, from 2009 to 2020.
In 2011, Dr. Al-Shaer was recognized by the Department of Defense as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in security analytics and automation. He received the IBM Faculty Award in 2012 and the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Award in 2013. With over twenty-five years of dedicated research and education in cybersecurity, Dr. Al-Shaer has significantly contributed to the fields of formal methods for security configuration verification and synthesis, self-adaptive autonomous cyber defense, cyber deception and deterrence, domain-specific language models for cybersecurity, cyber risk measurement and mitigation, and the science of cyber resilience.
Dr. Al-Shaer has played a pivotal role in pioneering innovative trends in cybersecurity, such as moving target defense, embedded deception, and verifiable autonomous cyber defense. He has made substantial contributions to academia, having edited and co-edited nine books, published over 300 refereed journal and conference articles, and mentored more than sixteen PhD graduates in cybersecurity.
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