Faculty Member

Dr. Anas Alsobeh

Biography

Dr. Anas M. R. AlSobeh is an Assistant Professor of Applied AI in the department of Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) at Utah Valley University (UVU) and formerly served as an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Information Technology & Cybersecurity at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (R1). He brings over 10 years of academic and research experience across the United States, Jordan, and Bahrain. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Utah State University and holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Computer Information Systems from Yarmouk University. Dr. AlSobeh’s research spans AI-driven cybersecurity, trustworthy and explainable AI, software engineering, cloud computing, and data science, with applications in malware and adversarial robustness, media forensics, and public-interest systems. He is the Principal Investigator on a USDA-funded project (2024–2026) focused on rapid Salmonella detection in onions using microscopic imaging and AI. He has published 50+ peer-reviewed papers in leading venues (Q1/Q2) and received the IACIS 2024 Best Paper Award for work on deepfake detection. Beyond academia, he has contributed to and led international initiatives funded by EU Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, GIZ, DAAD, and Nuffic in areas including refugee education, health/public-interest data systems, and cybersecurity capacity building. He has also served as an expert consultant with ICMPD, supporting training and applied analytics in migration contexts (AI and statistical analysis for migration). Dr. AlSobeh is an IEEE Senior Member, ACM SIGHPC member, and active mentor/reviewer with service roles across major journals and conferences (e.g., IEEE Access, Springer Nature venues, MDPI Systems, and other peer-reviewed outlets). His professional training/certifications include NVIDIA “Building Transformer-Based NLP Applications,” AWS Cloud Practitioner, and MIT’s Data Science and Machine Learning program.

Education

PhD, Utah State University, 2015

Major: Computer Science

MS, Yarmouk University, 2010

Major: Computer Information Systems

BS, Yarmouk University, 2007

Major: Computer Information Systems

Teaching

INFO 1200

Computer Programming I for IS IT, Spring 2026

INFO 1200

Computer Programming I for IS IT, Spring 2026

INFO 2200

Computer Programming II for IS IT, Spring 2026

Scholarly/Creative Works

Magableh, Anas MR AlSobehand Aws A, Array , "ARCHITECTURAL ASPECT-AWARE DESIGN FOR IOT APPLICATIONS_ CONCEPTUAL PROPOSAL" .
Alsobeh, Anas , "OSM: Leveraging Model Checking for Observing Dynamic 1 behaviors in Aspect-Oriented Applications. arXiv 2024" . arXiv preprint arXiv_2403.01349.
Migdady, Amna F, AL-Mifleh, Eman I, Alsobeh, Anas , Shatnawi, Amani , Al-Shraifin, Ahmad A, "The Effectiveness of a Program Based on Psychosocial Support in Raising the Level of Family Empowerment among Refugees in Jordan" .
Jalil, Intan Ermahani A, Abd Wahab, Mohd Helmy, Alsobeh, Anas , Ashari, Ahmad , Attarbashi, Zainab , Avuthu, Avinash Reddy, Baharum, Aslina , Safitri, Puspa Miladin Nuraida, "Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Indonesia" .
Almousa, Omar , Tashtoush, Yahya , Alsobeh, Anas , Zahariev, Plamen , Darwish, Omar , (2026) "SiAraSent: From Features to Deep Transformers for Large-Scale Arabic Sentiment Analysis" (Issue: 2, vol. 10). Big Data and Cognitive Computing. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc10020049
Devi, A , Aarella, Seema , Abdallah, Mustafa , Abdulrazzaq, Mohammed , Abouyoussef, Mahmoud , Abyouyssef, Mahmoud , Adedokun, Ayisat , Agarwal, Sameer , Agrawal, Anurag , Agrawal, Atul , (2025) "2025 IEEE 1st Secure and Trustworthy Cyberinfrastructure for IoT and Microelectronics February 25-27, 2025 Wright State University, Ohio, USA" .