Younes is an Informatics Ph.D. candidate working at the intersection of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Natural Language Processing. His research consists of using Machine Learning–based approaches for timely and automated detection of doxing and malicious disclosures of private information in online social networks such as Twitter. He also studies extremist groups such as ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) to identify their propaganda and social media strategies for influencing people and gaining global support.