Biography

Dr. Benjamin M. Ampel is an Assistant Professor in Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Director of the Center for CyberAI Research (CCAIR), where he has been a faculty member for 2 years. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona under Dr. Hsinchun Chen, and his dissertation Securing Cyberspace: AI-Enabled Cyber-Adversary Defense received the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award at ICIS 2024.Dissertation Award

His research program builds AI-enabled cyber threat intelligence that turns adversary chatter into actionable defense. He mines hacker communities, analyzes phishing content, and develops Large Language Model applications for cybersecurity. His work appears in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), ACM TMIS, Information Systems Frontiers, and IEEE ISI, receiving Best Paper Awards at IEEE ISI 2020 and IEEE ISI 2023.Best Paper Awards

From 2018-2021, he served as an NSF CyberCorps Scholarship-for-Service Fellow. He currently serves as Associate Editor for ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE).Editorial Roles He has co-chaired the AI4Cyber Workshop at ACM KDD and the HICSS Junior Faculty Consortium. In 2025, he was recognized as the Robinson College of Business IS Cybersecurity Graduate Program Top Professor.Teaching Honor

He is also the creator of the Scholar Utility Belt, a Chrome extension used by over 1,000 people daily to make Google Scholar workflows faster and more useful.

Outside research, he photographs travel and landscapes, from the Swiss Alps and Kyoto to Iceland and the Sonoran Desert. His prints are available on Fine Art America, and a short write-up explains how the collection is organized.