About
I'm Faruk Dziho. I work in the reliability corner of the electric-power industry, leading data and analytics focused on the state of the grid: measuring how it behaves, where it's stressed, and what the numbers say. I'm also a PhD student in Information Technology (AI/ML) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Before the grid, I spent over a decade in financial services as a data engineer and tech lead.
So far my research lives in two places. One is graph neural networks applied to the cybersecurity of power grids: detecting and localizing attacks that exploit the grid's structure. The other is the security and cultural competence of large language models: how they hold up under adversarial pressure, and what they systematically miss. As part of that work I'm building a benchmark of emotional dialogues in Bosnian that tests whether models genuinely understand culturally untranslatable concepts.
You can reach me at faruk.dziho@gmail.com.