Dr. Benjamin M. Ampel is an Assistant Professor in Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson School of Business. 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
Career timeline
Research toolkit
Signature threads
- Threat intelligence pipelines that translate adversary text into operational alerts.
- LLM-driven phishing detection and social engineering analysis.
- Measurement of hacker communities for early warning signals.
- AI-enabled Cybersecurity
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Large Language Models
- Deep Learning
- Phishing Detection
- Hacker Communities
Ph.D., Management Information Systems, 2024
University of Arizona
M.S., Management Information Systems, 2019
University of Arizona
B.S.B.A., Management Information Systems, 2017
University of Arizona
Undergraduate studies (no degree received)
University of Pittsburgh
High School
Tucson High School