Welcome! I’m Hussain Almohri, an Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Kuwait University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, where I focused on building high-assurance models for secure systems. I am a senior member of the ACM and IEEE, and an active contributor to the systems security research community.

My research centers on securing large-scale systems using a combination of machine learning, optimization, and automated intrusion mitigation. I've led multiple national research grants supported by Kuwait University and Kuwait Foundation for the Advacement of Sciences (KFAS) focused on defending IoT networks, analyzing network attack surfaces, and advancing privacy-preserving federated learning. My work has appeared in international journals and conferences. Recent projects include studying the effect of smishing attacks in GCC and exploring new mechanisms for autonomous decision making in denial of service detection systems.

Beyond research, I am passionate about making security and programming education accessible. I authored an open-source book on Python programming, freely available here, and have supervised several graduate theses and innovative student projects in AI, privacy, and cloud systems.