Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences & Technologies

Email: [email protected]
Phone: (616) 331-3051
Office: MAK D-2-228

Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Louisville, 2021

Asynchronous/Hybrid Course: CIS 616 - 01 (In-Person Meeting Dates: 01/12/2026, 03/02/2026, 04/20/2026, 04/27/2026)

Dr. Samah Mansour serves as Graduate Program Director for the Cybersecurity program in the School of Computing at Grand Valley State University. An expert in Internet of Things (IoT) security and authentication, her research explores Industrial IoT (IIoT), Internet of Vehicles (IoV), adversarial learning, federated learning, and intrusion detection using machine learning. She also actively advances research on women in cybersecurity.

Dr. Mansour played a key role in shaping the College of Computing’s strategic plan, particularly around faculty and staff success initiatives. Additionally, she actively participates in activities to promote women in cybersecurity and engages in outreach activities targeting K-12 students to introduce them to computing and cybersecurity careers. She serves as faculty advisor for the GVSU Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Student Chapter and as a community advisor.

She also serves as faculty advisor for the GVSU Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Student Chapter and as a community advisor. Her professional affiliations include the West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium (WMCSC).

She enjoys teaching courses in network systems management, ethical hacking, applied cryptography, system security, data security and privacy, and data analytics for cybersecurity. Outside of academia, she enjoys home decor and traveling.

• Buuri, J., Mansour, S. S., El-Said, M., & Wang, X. (2024). An Empirical Study Using Microsoft Azure Auto Machine Learning to Detect Zero-Day Attacks. The 25th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2024, El Paso, TX, USA, October 10-12, 2024, 7–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686852.3686860
• Wang, X., Mansour, S. S., & El-Said, M. (2022). Introducing Zero Trust in a Cybersecurity Course. SIGITE ’22: The 23rd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, Chicago, IL, USA, September 21 - 24, 2022, 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537674.3555779
• El-Said, M., Wang, X., Mansour, S. S., & Kalafut, A. J. (2021). Building an Impersonation Attack and Defense Testbed for Vehicle To Vehicle Systems. SIGITE ’21: The 22nd Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, SnowBird, UT, USA, October 6 - 9, 2021, 65–66. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450329.3478315
• Mansour, S. S., & Lauf, A. P. (2020). Hardware Root Of Trust for IoT Security In Smart Home Systems. IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, CCNC 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 10-13, 2020, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC46108.2020.9045412