Đorđe Klisura

About Me

Hello, and welcome! I’m an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Security at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business.

I completed my Ph.D. in Information Technology at UT San Antonio, where I worked with Dr. Anthony Rios. Broadly, my work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, and responsible language technologies.

Research

I build trustworthy AI systems for high-stakes settings where models must reason about privacy, access, fairness, and security. My work asks when AI systems should answer, refuse, reveal, or protect.

Confidentiality & Authorization in LLMs

How can language models respect roles, permissions, and private data?

  • Role-Conditioned Refusals
  • Latent Refusal Probing for Access Control
  • Text-to-SQL Database Vulnerability Analysis

Equal Access & Protection

How can language technologies provide the same quality, privacy, and protection across dialects and writing styles?

  • Multi-Agent Dialect-Bias Mitigation
  • Prompt-Probe-Gated Decoding
  • FairPrivacy

AI-Driven Cybersecurity

How can machine learning detect cyber threats from raw security and network data?

  • Jbeil: Lateral Movement Detection
  • IoT Malware Attribution
  • Helium IoT Threat Analysis
Natural Language Processing Trustworthy AI Cyber Security

Selected Publications

Author name in bold. Full list available in my CV.

Journal Articles

  1. S. Torabi, Đorđe Klisura, J. Khoury, E. Bou-Harb, C. Assi, and M. Debbabi. “Internet-Wide Analysis, Characterization, and Family Attribution of IoT Malware: A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study.” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2024).

Conference Papers

  1. Đorđe Klisura, J. Khoury, A. Kundu, R. Krishnan, and A. Rios. “Role-Conditioned Refusals: Evaluating Access Control Reasoning in Large Language Models.” Findings of the ACL: EACL 2026, Mar. 2026.
  2. Đorđe Klisura, A. Bernaga, A. K. Gárate, R. Roshan, K. Yang, H. Pataci, and A. Rios. “A Multi-Agent Framework for Mitigating Dialect Biases in Privacy Policy Question-Answering Systems.” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the ACL (Vol. 1: Long Papers), 2025.
  3. Đorđe Klisura and A. Rios. “Unmasking Database Vulnerabilities: Zero-Knowledge Schema Inference Attacks in Text-to-SQL Systems.” Findings of the ACL: NAACL 2025, Apr. 2025, pp. 6954–6976. ISBN 979-8-89176-195-7.
  4. J. Khoury, Đorđe Klisura, H. Zanddizari, G. D. L. T. Parra, P. Najafirad, and E. Bou-Harb. “Jbeil: Temporal Graph-Based Inductive Learning to Infer Lateral Movement in Evolving Enterprise Networks.” 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2024, pp. 3644–3660.

Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award | College of AI, Cyber and Computing Named the top graduate instructor at UT San Antonio CAICC.
    Apr 2026
  • Ph.D. Student of The Year | UT San Antonio Alvarez College of Business Awarded to the top doctoral student across all Ph.D. programs.
    Jul 2025
  • Ph.D. Student of The Year | Information Systems & Cybersecurity Dept. Awarded to the top doctoral student in the ISC Department.
    Jul 2025

Teaching

CYBR 4330: Incident Response and Contingency Planning

Fall 2026

Kennesaw State University

IS 7330: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

Fall 2026

Kennesaw State University

IS 2053: Programming I

Spring & Fall 2025

Primary Instructor at UT San Antonio

  • Overall Instructor Rating: 4.66 / 5.0

Research Presentations

  • Texas NLP Symposium 2026 Poster Presentation · College Station, TX
    Apr 2, 2026
  • Fall Workshop on Cybersecurity and AI Poster Presentation · San Angelo, TX
    Oct 7–8, 2025
  • ACL 2025 Poster Presentation · Vienna, Austria
    Jul 27 – Aug 1, 2025
  • NAACL 2025 Poster Presentation · Albuquerque, NM
    Apr 29 – May 3, 2025

Contact

Đorđe Klisura

Let’s connect

I’m always glad to hear from prospective students, collaborators, and colleagues.

dklisura@kennesaw.edu

Coles College of Business · Kennesaw State University