- Email:
- belazar@iu.edu
- Department:
- Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT)
- Campus:
- IU, IU Bloomington
- Major:
- Information Systems
Bio
Ben Lazarine is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Operations and Decision Technologies at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington (expected graduation of May 2026). He serves as a Research Associate in Kelley’s Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DSAIL) and Student Fellow in Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Ben’s research focuses on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled cybersecurity analytics to manage vulnerabilities in open-source AI development and advanced cyberinfrastructure. He has published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, IS conferences ICIS and HICSS, and cybersecurity conferences such as IEEE ISI and USENIX Workshops. His work has also been integrated into systems used in industry, such as MITRE’s AI Risk Database. A former National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) Fellow (2019-2021), Ben has contributed to multiple projects supported by the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) programs. He has won several awards for his research and service including the Alan R. Dennis Fellowship, Robert James Waller Fellowship, and AMCIS Outstanding Reviewer Award. He is a member of INFORMS, AIS, IEEE, and ACM.
Research Interests
I am interested in designing AI-enabled vulnerability management systems for open-source AI development with a focus on securing the source code and model stages of the AI life cycle. My methodological areas of expertise include graph learning, self-supervised learning, transformers, and large language models.