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Sayanton Dibbo

Assistant Professor in CS and Hewson Faculty Fellow, Styslinger College of Engineering
The University of Alabama
Faculty Affiliate
Alabama Center for the Advancement of AI (ALA-AI) and Alabama Cyber Institution & HPC
sdibbo@ua.edu


External Research Funding

Google Cloud Research Credit Award 2025 - 2026
Google
Funding for computational resources to support research in Trustworthy AI and Foundation Model Robustness at the University of Alabama.

Faculty Fellowships

Hewson Engineering Faculty Fellow 2025 - Present
Styslinger College of Engineering, The University of Alabama
Awarded to outstanding early-career faculty to support research initiatives, student mentorship, and laboratory development.

Research Awards & Honors

Cybersecurity Cluster Research Fellow 2024 - 2025
Dartmouth College
NSF SaTC Aspiring PI Award 2023
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Participation in the Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) workshop for rising researchers in cybersecurity.
Graduate Student Council Travel Grant 2024
Dartmouth College
Awarded for presenting research at ICASSP 2024.
Dean's Distinguished Fellowship 2017
UC Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering