Souhail Chakkour

Network Security • Moving Target Defense • SDN

Incoming Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Mississippi State University

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Mississippi State University advised by Dr. Charan Gudla.

My research focuses on network security, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and Moving Target Defense (MTD). I am currently developing CPAM, a session-aware SDN-based MTD framework that preserves active TCP and UDP sessions during virtual IP mutations.

Previously, I worked on machine-learning-based software vulnerability detection using transformer architectures and investigated the generalization of vulnerability classifiers from synthetic datasets to real-world software benchmarks.