Mahmood Sharif (original) (raw)

Senior Lecturer

About

Hi!

I’m a Senior Lecturer (≈ Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, where I lead the PLUS research group. My research interests are in the areas of computer security and privacy, machine learning, and human factors.

Prior to joining Tel Aviv University, I spent roughly two years with VMware’s and NortonLifeLock’s research groups. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was a member of CyLab and CUPS. I received my B.Sc. (via the Etgar/“Challenge” program) and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Haifa.

If you’re interested in joining our group, please do reach out.

Publications

Service

I have/had the pleasure to serve on the following program committees:

• ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS): 2026.
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2025.
• ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY): 2026 (PC co-chair), 2027 (PC co-chair).
• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI): 2025.
• European Workshop on Usable Security: 2018, 2019.
• Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 2022.
• IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML): 2024, 2025, 2026.
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P): 2024, 2026, 2027.
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Student PC: 2018.
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2024.
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025.
• USENIX Security Symposium: 2022, 2023, 2025.
• Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test: 2019.
• Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: 2018, 2019.
• Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society: 2018.
• Workshop on Towards Trustworthy ML: 2020.