Anas Alsobeh received a PhD in computer science from Utah State University, where he completed the degree under the advisement of Dr. Stephen Clyde (2011 to 2015). He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer information systems (CIS) from Yarmouk University, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Currently, he is an assistant professor of the Information Technology program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, USA. He has served as a faculty member in the Department of Information Systems at Yarmouk University in Jordan, where he has also served as the Director of the Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Forced Migration Studies Center. His areas of research expertise include software design and modeling, data analysis, web applications, cybersecurity analysis, and cloud computing. He has been actively engaged in multidisciplinary research projects and has a record of several publications and presentations in his field. He has also received various national and international research grants, serving as both a principal investigator and a team member in multiple EU-funded projects from H2020, HOPES, Erasmus+, and Nuffic. Additionally, he has recently received the certificate for the Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions program by MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and the AWS Cloud Practitioner Program by Amazon Web Services.
Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah, USA
Information Systems and Technology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Colorado, USA
information technology (ITEC)
Yarmouk University
Irbid, Jordan
Information Systems
IACIS 2024 Best Paper Award
International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS)
Received the IACIS Best Paper Award (2024) for research on AI-enabled media forensics/deepfake detection, recognizing originality, technical rigor, and practical impact for cybersecurity and information assurance.
REACH Faculty Mentor Award (2025)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC)
Awarded the REACH Faculty Mentor Award (2025) for outstanding mentorship of undergraduate researchers and for advancing student-led projects in applied AI and cybersecurity.
USDA-NIFA AFRI Research Grant (PI)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA)
Principal Investigator on a USDA-NIFA funded research project (2024–2026) developing AI-based microscopy detection of Salmonella for food safety, integrating data engineering, model development, and reproducible research workflows.
University Educator/Researcher
Utah Valley University, Orem, USA
01 Dec 2025 - present
University Educator/Researcher
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, USA
01 Jan 2023 - 01 Dec 2025