PLUS Research Group


The Privacy, Learning, Usability, and Security (PLUS) Group is a research group in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University led by Mahmood Sharif. We are broadly interested in computer security and privacy, and primarily study the intersections of computer security and privacy with machine learning (specifically, within the area of adversarial machine learning) and human factors.

If you’re interested in joining our group, please do reach out.

Latest News

  • Sep 24: Welcome to Liron David who has joined us as a postdoc!
  • Aug 24: Congrats to Achi-Or, Nadav, and Zebin on accepted AISec papers.
  • Jul 24: Matan transitioned to the direct track Ph.D. program—best wishes!
  • Jun 24: Pleased to welcome David Tarrab (Columbia University) for a summer internship.
  • May 24: Excited to welcome Mark Fesenko to the group.
  • Apr 24: Congrats also to Nadav for winning a Samueli scholarship!
  • Apr 24: Congrats to Matan for winning a Maus scholarship for excellent M.Sc. students.
  • Mar 24: Abdullah was accepted to the M.Sc. program.
  • Mar 24: Tsufit passed her M.Sc. exam with flying colors.
  • Mar 24: Another paper accepted to Oakland 2024. Congrats to Matan and all co-authors!
  • Dec 23: Happy to welcome Abdullah Garra as an undergraduate RA.
  • Dec 23: Paper accepted to Oakland 2024. Congrats to all co-authors!
  • Nov 23: Excited to welcome Mohammed Qaiss to the group.
  • Oct 23: Zebin re-joined the group, this time as a graduate RA. Welcome, Zebin!
  • Sep 23: Papers accepted to NDSS and USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to all co-authors!
  • Sep 23: Mahmood was awarded an Intel Rising Star Faculty Award.
  • Aug 23: Amit’s paper was accepted to ESORICS 2023. Congratulations (x2) Amit!
  • Aug 23: Amit defended his M.Sc. thesis.