Dr. Reza Parizi
WELCOME
As a scholar and educator, it is imperative to address the question of relevance to real life in relation to our research and teaching philosophy. After extensive reading and reflection spanning over a decade, I firmly believe that neglecting this crucial aspect would result in a squandering of valuable time and resources.
A brief bio...
Dr. Parizi is a proud recipient of the KSU Inventor honor in 2025 and 2026 and a tenured Full Professor of Software Engineering and the Director of the Decentralized Science Lab (dSL) in the College of Computing and Software Engineering at KSU. He is highly proficient
in AI-Enabled Software Engineering and cybersecurity research and possesses a strong
entrepreneurial mindset. He is SunTrust Fellow and Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellow
and a Senior IEEE, IEEE Blockchain Community, and ACM member. Before joining KSU,
he was with the New York Institute of Technology. He has applied his insights and
expertise to various innovative and technology-driven projects across start-ups in
AI Security, Software Engineering, and Web3. He received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering
in 2012 and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering and Computer Science,
respectively, in 2008 and 2005.
He has more than 15 years of experience in Frontier AI solution architecture, system
design, and project management. He has contributed to over 180 research papers published
in highly respected scientific A* conferences (such as ICML, ACL) and journals (such
as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Computers & Security, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, to just name a few) and international workshops and also has two patents pending
to his credit.
*** He has been recognized as 1 of 3 "Professors To Know In Software Engineering Programs" in the USA - check it out
