Afsah Anwar

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, NM.

My primary research goal is to contribute to the understanding of malicious activity on the Internet and its impact on individuals and society. My research efforts have resulted in tools and frameworks that impact various stages of incident response life cycle. I am broadly interested in Malware Analysis, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, and building robust Machine Learning (ML)-based defenses.

I lead the Beyond Defense Lab at UNM.

Prospective Students: Please check out this page.

Updates

August 2025: NSF SaTC Medium accepted with Profs. Roya Ensafi (UMich) and Jed Crandall (ASU). This will support our upcoming works on VPNs.
August 2025: Paper accepted at NDSS 2026 on mobile VPNs. Congrats Enrique!
July 2025: Paper accepted at The 47th IEE Aerospace Conference 2026 on supply chain-based malware threats to small satellites. Congrats Jack!
June 2025: Our novel attack vector was acknowledged by Aerospace Corporation's Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis (SPARTA).
June 2025: Our novel attack vector on satellite systems was acknowledged by NASA. Congratulations Jack!
May 2025: Paper accepted at ACM Web Science (WebSci 2025) on Russian Censorship through the Lens of Time Series Analysis. Congrats Dheeman!
May 2025: Paper accepted at The 5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC 2025) on LLaVul: A Multimodal LLM for Interpretable Vulnerability Reasoning about Source Code. Congrats Ala and Mike!
April 2025: Dr. Abusnaina (Meta) visited and shared his experiences his experiences with us at Beyond Defense Lab.
February 2025: Dr. Saad (X, formerly Twitter) shared his research and experiences with students at UNM.
December 2024: Muhammad Danish has been recognized by Computing Research Association (CRA) among undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities for his outstanding potential in computing research. Congratulations Danish!
December 2024: Our paper at WISE 2024 got the best paper award!

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