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Hanan Hibshi

Office: INI Building- INI 109
Phone: 412-268-4922
Email: hhibshi [at] cmu [dot] edu

About Me


I am an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Information Networking Institute in the College of Engineerig College of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; a core Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab) ; and I am also an affiliated faculty with the Societal Computing program.

I obtained my PhD from in Societal Computing at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in October 2018. In May 2011, I got my Masters degree in Information Security Technology & Management from the Information Networking Institute (INI) at Carnegie Mellon University. I have previously worked in King Abdul-Aziz University and in the banking industry.

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Cybersecurity education is at the heart of my work. Over the years, I've had the privilege of leading several cybersecurity education projects funded by the NSA and industry partners such as Cisco, and I currently serve as Co-PI on CMU's Scholarship for Service program, helping prepare the next generation of cybersecurity professionals for careers in public service.
I am especially passionate about making cybersecurity learning more accessible and engaging — which is why I serve as PI of the NCAE-C Capacity Building Outreach Project at CMU. Through this project, my students and I get to design and build new tools and resources, including capture-the-flag (CTF) experiences, that are freely available to teachers and ready to use in the classroom. Watching K–12 educators bring these resources to their students, and seeing how much more approachable cybersecurity becomes through hands-on, well-designed learning experiences, is one of the most rewarding parts of my work.
I also served as the principal investigator for CMU's GenCyber Teacher Program that I founded in 2022, where I get to work directly with teachers to help strengthen cybersecurity education at the K–12 level. My areas of interest include cybersecurity education and workforce development; usable security and Privacy, secure block-chain education, security requirements engineering, and security decision-making. My work is in the intersection between security, privacy, software engineering, and Human-Computer Interaction.

For most recent list of my publications, you can refer to my Google Scholar Page .

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