Jafarikhah, Sima

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Assistant Professor, Computer Science , College of Science and Engineering

Sima Jafarikhah is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNC Wilmington with Ph.D.s in both Computer Science and Mathematics. Her research spans cybersecurity, cryptography, privacy, secure authentication, and emerging applications of AI in security. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background, she develops practical, privacy-preserving solutions to real-world security challenges while bringing the same connection between theory and application to her teaching.

Jafarikhah, Sima

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jafarikhaht@uncw.edu

910.962.4260

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Academic Article
- From Description to Score: Can LLMs Quantify Vulnerabilities? -- The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2026). ACM. 1838. 2026-06-01
- Defending Every Tick: Comprehensive Attack Mitigation and Feasibility Analysis for Ad Hoc Time Synchronization -- 2025 IEEE 16th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON25). IEEE. 0272. 2025-12-01
- Cryptographically Verifiable Fingerprint Authentication Using PEP Hash -- IEEE 16th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). IEEE. 265. 2025-10-01
- Send to which account? Evaluation of an LLM-based Scambaiting System -- 2025 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). . 1. 2025-09-01
- Transactions in the Wild: a Secure, Offline Architecture for Ad-Hoc Mobile Payments -- IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT). IEEE. 128. 2025-08-01
- Comparative Security Analysis of Apple Pay and Google Wallet: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Threats -- 2025 35th IEEE International Conference Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA25). IEEE. 1. 2025-05-01
- Assessing Perceptual Hash Algorithms for Publicly Evaluatable Framework -- 17th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN24). IEEE. 1. 2025-02-01
- Publicly Evaluatable Perceptual Hashing, Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) -- Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNSC,volume 12147)). LNCS. 12147:436–-455. 2020-01-01
- Homomorphic Secret Sharing from Paillier Encryption, International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec). LNCS. 10592:381. 2017-01-01
- Computable Jordan Decomposition of Linear Continuous Functionals on C[0; 1] -- Logical Methods in Computer Science. . 10:1. 2014-01-01
- Riesz Representation Theorem on the Dual of C([0;1]) revisited -- Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS). . 19:750. 2013-01-01
- DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers -- IEEE 15th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). IEEE. 517.
- Exploring the Threat of Software Supply Chain Attacks on Containerized Applications -- (SIN23) 6th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. IEEE. 1.
- Metacognitive Limitations in Young Learners: Assessing Barriers to Awareness and Problem-Solving in Third-Grade Students. Iranian Journal of Learning and Memory. 83.
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- Traditional Countermeasures to Unwanted Email -- Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams. Springer. 53. 2016-01-01

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