Paulo Shakarian

KG Tan Endowed Professor of Artificial Intelligence

CST 4-285

pashakar@syr.edu

Lab Affiliations: Leibniz Lab

Areas of Expertise:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Logic programming
  • Neurosymbolic AI
  • Abductive Reasoning
  • Metacognition
  • AI and Security
  • Data mining

Paulo Shakarian is the KG Tan Endowed Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Syracuse University.  His academic accomplishments include four best-paper awards, over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 12 issued patents, and 8 published books.  Shakarian has secured over $7 million in grant funding from various government and industry sponsors.  Paulo’s work on the use of AI methods to predict software vulnerabilities was commercialized in a startup that raised over $8 million in venture capital, obtained 80 paying customers, and was acquired in 2022.  Previously, Shakarian held faculty positions at West Point and Arizona State – earning tenure and an appointment as Research Director at the latter.  Prior to his academic career, Shakarian served in the U.S. Army with two combat tours in Iraq earning the Bronze Star.  He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in computer science from West Point.

Honors and Awards:

  • Editor’s Choice Article (Cover article), Big Data and Cognitive Computing, “Argumentation-based Query Answering under Uncertainty with Application to Cybersecurity,” 2022.
  • Best Presentation, IEEE CCWC 2020 for “Inductive and Deductive Reasoning to Assist in Cyber-Attack Prediction”
  • Winner, Trumpf Venture Challenge, 2019 (followed by $1M investment from Trumpf Ventures)
  • Best Paper, IEEE ICDIS-2019 for “An End-to-End Framework to Identify Pathogenic Social Media Accounts on Twitter”
  • Best Paper, IEEE ICDIS-2018 for “Mining Key-Hackers on Darkweb Forums”
  • Best Paper, IEEE ASONAM-2016 (FOSINT-SI track) for “Argumentation Models for Cyber Attribution”
  • AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2015
  • Full article in the print edition Popular Science (https://www.popsci.com/article/science/building-social-network-crime/), 2014
  • Meritorious Service Medal (for work done as an Assistant Professor), 2014
  • DARPA Service Chiefs’ Fellowship, 2007

Selected Publications:

P. Shakarian, H. Wei(eds.), Metacognitive Artificial Intelligence.  Cambridge University Press, 2025.

D. Bavikadi, N. Lee, P. Shakarian, C. Parvis, Sea-cret Agents: Maritime Abduction for Region Generation to Expose Dark Vessel Trajectories, 24thIntl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2025).

J. S. Kricheli, K. Voa, A. Datta, S. Ozgur, P. Shakarian, Error Detection and Constraint Recovery in Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification without Prior Knowledge, 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-24) (2024).

P. Shakarian,G.I. Simari, C. Baral, B. Xi, L. Pokala, Neuro Symbolic Reasoning and Learning, Springer-Nature, 2023.

D. Aditya, K. Mukherji, S. Balasubramanian, A. Chaudhary, P. Shakarian, PyReason: Software for Open World Temporal Logic, AAAI Spring Symposium (AAAI-MAKE) (Mar. 2023).

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