قدِّم طلبك الآن 
الدكتور عيسى خليل
مدير البحوث
المؤهلات العلمية
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
الكيان
معهد قطر لبحوث الحوسبة
Divison
الأمن السيبراني
السيرة الذاتية
Dr. Issa Khalil is the Research Director of Cyber Security at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. Dr. Khalil is an expert in security data analytics, network security, AI/ML security, privacy, cyber threat intelligence, and private data sharing. Dr. Khalil founded the National Cyber Security Research Lab (NCSRL) and led the design and deployment of one of the largest cyber ranges in the region. He has contributed to the Cyber Security Grand Challenge and the development of Qatar’s National Cyber Security Strategies.
His work includes over 120 publications in top-tier cybersecurity journals and conferences, alongside more than 12 U.S. patents and disclosures, four of which have been licensed to international security providers. His achievements have been featured in prominent outlets like the BBC and Qatar TV and have earned him prestigious awards, including the "Tech Team Award" from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), the HBKU Research Excellence Award, and UAEU’s Outstanding Professor Award for his contributions to research, teaching, and service.
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University, United States
2007
MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
1996
BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
1994
- AI security & privacy
- Enterprise security
- AI Cyber Security applications
- Cyber threat intelligence
Research Director
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2024 - Present
Principal Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2016 - Present
Senior Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2013 - 2016
Associate Professor and Department Chair
College of IT, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
2007 - 2013
Director of the Computer Center
Al-Quds Open University, Palestine
1998 - 2002
Deniz, F., Nabeel, M., Yu, T., & Khalil, I. (2025). MANTIS: Detection of zero-day malicious domains leveraging low reputed hosting infrastructure. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P Oakland).
Nazzal, M., Khalil, I., Khreishah, A., & Phan, N. (2024). PromSec: Prompt optimization for secure generation of functional source code with large language models (LLMs). Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
Nazzal, M., Khalil, I., Khreishah, A., Phan, N., & Ma, Y. (2024). Multi-instance adversarial attack on GNN-based malicious domain detection. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P Oakland), 1236–1254.
Thirumuruganathan, S., Deniz, F., Khalil, I., Yu, T., Nabeel, M., & Ouzzani, M. (2024). Detecting and mitigating sampling bias in cybersecurity with unlabeled data. USENIX Security Symposium.
Abdallah, M., Woods, D., Naghizadeh, P., Khalil, I., Cason, T. N., Sundaram, S., & Bagchi, S. (2022). TASHAROK: Using mechanism design for enhancing security resource allocation in interdependent systems. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P Oakland), 249–266.
- 2023; HBKU Research Excellence Award, HBKU.
- 2022; Tech Team Award, HBKU.
- 2011; UAEU Outstanding Professor Award for Research, UAEU.
- 2011; UAEU Outstanding Professor Award for Teaching, UAEU.
- 2011; UAEU Outstanding Professor Award for service, UAEU.