Dr. May Almousa receives an MIT IBK Research Award

We are very excited to announce that Dr. May Almousa's research proposal titled “SYN-PHISH: A Trustworthy Synthetic-Data and AI-Assurance Framework for Robust Phishing Defense” has been funded through an MIT IBK research award. Dr. Almousa is currently with Professor Stuart Madnick at Cybersecurity at the MIT Sloan School of Management (CAMS).

This project will explore how AI can defend against sophisticated phishing attacks generated by generative AI. Dr. Almousa will use advanced AI algorithms and large language models to generate realistic synthetic phishing emails and malicious URLs, then train and stress-test next-generation detection systems against known, unseen, and evolving threats. The research will be conducted under the guidance of Professor Stuart Madnick, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Siegel and Dr. Ranjan Pal. For more information about Dr. Almousa's research, please visit her fellow page on the IBK website.