Dr. Mahdieh Zabihimayvan is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. She received PhD in Computer Science from Wright State University in May 2020.
Her doctoral dissertation is entitled "New Perspectives About The Tor Ecosystem: Integrating Structure With Information" and contributes insights into the logical structure of Tor, the types of information hosted on this network, and the interplay between its structure and information. 
She works on the applications of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity with the aim of improving proactive cyber threat intelligence applications in protecting privacy of Internet users.
She is particularly interested in applied machine learning and characterization, measurements, and analytics for complex cyber-security and socio-technical systems.