Rahim Taheri is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Before joining the school, he was a post-doctoral research associate with King’s Communications, Learning and Information Processing (kclip) lab at King’s College London.

Rahim Taheri received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2007, and the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology-Computer Networks in 2015 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group, University of Padua, Italy.

Rahim has several peer-reviewed publications published in prestigious journals such as  IEEE TII, IEEE TNSM, IEEE IoT, FGCS, ComSec and IoT Elsevier, ACM TOMM, and NCAA Springer. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Professional Member.

Rahim Taheri's research interests are at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning. His main research interests can be itemized as:

• Malware Analysis
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Adversarial Machine Learning
• Applied Machine Learning
• Network Security
• Federated and Split Learning 
• Differential Privacy