Current Member

Current members of the IIS Laboratory.

Faculty

Junggab Son
Junggab Son, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of IIS

Office: AEB 207

Email: junggab.son at unlv.edu

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/junggabson/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5xaIVQ0AAAAJ&hl=en

Zuobin Xiong
Zuobin Xiong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of IIS

Office: AEB 205

Email: zuobin.xiong at unlv.edu

Website: https://zuobinxiong.github.io/

Ph.D. Students

Hongbi Jeong
Hongbi Jeong
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, August 2023 - Present

Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, and Generative AI

Email: jeongb11 at unlv.nevada.edu

An Huang
An Huang
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, January 2024 - Present

I am a PhD student majoring in Computer Science at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, under the supervision of Dr. Zuobin Xiong. I received my M.E degree from School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2024 and my B.E. degree from School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2019. I used to work for Lotus and XYLink as a software R&D engineer from 2019 to 2023.

Email: huanga7 at unlv.nevada.edu

Shubham Joshi
Shubham Joshi
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, January 2024 - Present

Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Computer Networks, Machine Learning

Email: joshi54 at unlv.nevada.edu

Dillon Davidson
Dillon Davidson
Undergraduate Intern, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Fall 2024 - Present

I am a senior CS student at UNLV planning to pursue a PhD after graduation and I am interested in researching vulnerabilities of cryptographic algorithms and vulnerabilities of AI algorithms.

Email: davidd11 at unlv.nevada.edu

Thien Nguyen
Thien Nguyen
Undergraduate Intern, January 2024 - Fall 2024, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Spring 2025 - Present

Research Interests: NLP, machine learning, Automation, and social aspects of cybersecurity

Email: nguyet69 at unlv.nevada.edu

Suprim Nakarmi
Suprim Nakarmi
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Spring 2025 - Present

I am pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working under the supervision of Dr. Zuobin Xiong. My research focuses on exploring security vulnerabilities in Federated and Graph Neural Networks. I hold a master's degree in computer science from the University of South Dakota, USA.

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Cybersecurity

Email: nakars2 at unlv.nevada.edu

Undergraduate Interns

Dorian Akhavan
Dorian Akhavan
Undergraduate Intern, January 2024 - Present

Research Interests: Malware and Scam Detection, Cybersecurity

Email: akhavan at unlv.nevada.edu

Matthew Jackson
Matthew Jackson
Undergraduate Intern, October 2024 - Present

Research Interests: Machine learning, Cyber Security, and Cryptography

Email: jacksm28 at unlv.nevada.edu

Visiting Scholars

Jemin Ahn
Jemin Ahn
Ph.D. student, July 2021 - Present

Research interests: Web Browser, Network

Affiliation: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea

Email: ahnjemin at hanyang.ac.kr

Hoon Ji
Hoon Ji
Master & Ph.D. Integrated Student, August 2024 - Present

Research interests: Aerial Vehicle Security, IoT Device Security, Machine Learning Model Security

Affiliation: Master & Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea

Email: hoonji at unlv.edu

Jungmin Lee
Jungmin Lee
Master & Ph.D. Integrated Student, August 2024 - Present

Research interests: Network Security, Cybersecurity, AI Security

Affiliation: Master & Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea

Email: lsmp12 at hanyang.ac.kr