Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Member Faculty, Center for Space, High-Performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC)
Co-Principal Investigator, Cyber Energy Center
Affiliate scholar, The Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber)
Affiliate Faculty, Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS)

Dr. Mai Abdelhakim is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). Her research interests include cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, and reliable decision-making under uncertainty. Her research leverages stochastic analysis, information theory, and machine learning to model and design reliable, secure, and efficient IoT-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), with application to energy systems, space networks, and autonomous vehicles. Dr. Abdelhakim has led multiple projects federally funded projects and has created partnerships with industry and governmental agencies/labs. She led the development of academic programs at Pitt, such as the "Cybersecurity in Emerging Engineering Systems" certificate program. Prior to Pitt, she was a research scientist at OSRAM research center working on applications of IoT networks, authentication mechanisms, and indoor positioning systems. She completed her postdoctoral training in 2015 and received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2014, both at Michigan State University. Dr. Abdelhakim is currently a senior member of the IEEE and has been Associate Editor of IET Communications since January 2023.

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Office: 412-383-5767
maia@pitt.edu