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BIOGRAPHY

I'm a senior researcher at the Malware-Lab, Cyber Security Research Center (CSRC) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. I began my Ph.D. studies in 2015 in BGU’s Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering. My research is aimed at the development of a holistic analysis framework for the detection of malicious emails using Machine Learning. I'm a co-author of several academic papers dealing with the analysis and detection of malicious non-executable files such as PDF, Office documents and JPEG images. My main areas of interest are computer and cyber security, machine learning, data science and big data analytics.

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Computer & Cyber Security

  • Data Science

  • Machine Learning

  • Big Data Analytics

2015 - 2019

Ph.D, Information Systems Engineering,

Ben-Gurion University of the Nevev, Israel.

Topic: Holistic analysis framework for the detection of malicious emails using machine learning methods.

2013 - 2015

M.Sc, Information Systems Engineering,

Ben-Gurion University of the Nevev, Israel.

Thesis: Detection of malicious emails.

2009 - 2013

B.Sc, Information Systems Engineering,

Ben-Gurion University of the Nevev, Israel.

POSITIONS

  • Senior Researcher at the Malware Lab in the CSRC

  • Lecturer at the ACSP program (Amal school)

  • Lecturer at the ICSML program

  • Teaching assistant at BGU for the following courses:

    • Advanced Topic in Programming course for B.Sc.

    • Databases course for B.Sc.

CERTIFICATES

מעבדת הפוגענים - תעודת הוקרה לאביעד כהן.
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