Wajih obtained his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
under the advisement of Professor Adam Bates.
His research interests are in secure data provenance, systems security,
and distributed systems.
During his time at Illinois, Wajih’s work was recognized with the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher award, Symantec Graduate Fellowship and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship.
He also interned at Corelight, Symantec Research Labs, NEC Laboratories America, and the LABOS group at EPFL, Switzerland advised by Willy Zwaenepoel and Florin Dinu.
Wajih defended his dissertation, titled “Investigating System Intrusions with Data Provenance Analytics”, in summer 2021.
Beginning in August 2022, Wajih will join the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science.
Prior to this appointment, he will be serving as a visiting scientist at Stellar Cyber and visiting professor of computer science at LUMS.