Younes is an Informatics Ph.D. candidate working at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and natural language processing (NLProc). He investigates longitudinal Twitter (X) activities of religious extremist groups and authoritarian regimes such as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and the Islamic regime in Iran to identify their support network, propaganda techniques, and social media strategies for influencing people and gaining global support.
His research also uses machine learning, and NLProc approaches for timely detection of doxing and malicious disclosures of private information on online social networks such as Twitter. Moreover, he has prepared two corpora containing millions of privacy policies and question-answer pairs extracted from them for public release and performs large-scale analysis on them to identify common patterns and practices and unique characteristics of the policy documents.