Nabeel Alzahrani
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Bio
Dr. Alzahrani is an adjunct professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and cybersecurity. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Alzahrani is also a consultant in the Identity, Security, and Enterprise Technology Department at CSUSB. He is a published author of several books and peer-reviewed research papers and has delivered multiple presentations on topics within his areas of expertise.
Education
Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) with a GPA of 4.00 (out of 4.00) in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside).
Courses/Teaching
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Teaching Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) Core Courses
- MSCS Core Course: CSE 6550: Software Engineering Concepts
Specialization
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Cybersecurity
Research and Teaching Interests
AI Research Opportunities for Students
- AI-Based Cancer Detection
- AI-Driven Academically At-Risk Student Detection
- AI-Powered Support Systems
- AI Overfitting
- AI Bias
- AI Explainability
- AI Scalability
- AI Adversarial Attacks
- AI for Scientists
- AI for Everyone
- An AI-Based System to Defend Against Moving Threats (Military)
- An AI-Based System to Detect Suspects (Law Enforcement)
- An AI-Based System to Detect Interactions (Scientific and Entertainment)
- An AI-Based Software Vulnerability Detection
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An AI-Based Cyber Threat Detection
AI Research Required Student Skills
- Addressing Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) Like ChatGPT
- Python Programming (use only the two green buttons “Previous” and “Next” to navigate the tutorial and avoid ads)
- GitHub
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Computer Vision with TensorFlow
- Building a Brain in 10 Minutes
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)