Dr. Malachi Jones is a Principal Cybersecurity AI/LLM Researcher and Manager at Microsoft, where he currently leads a team advancing red team agent autonomy within Microsoft Security AI (MSECAI). His present focus is on building autonomous red team agents, while his earlier work centered on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for security tasks and developing reverse engineering capabilities in Security Copilot.

With over 15 years in security research, Dr. Jones has contributed to both academia and industry. At MITRE, he advanced ML- and IR-based approaches for automated reverse engineering, and at Booz Allen Dark Labs, he specialized in embedded security and co-authored US Patent 10,133,871.

In addition to his work at Microsoft, Dr. Jones is the founder of Jones Cyber-AI, an organization dedicated to independent research and teaching initiatives. Through Jones Cyber-AI, he has developed and taught his specialized course, Automating Reverse Engineering Processes with AI/ML, NLP, and LLMs, at premier conferences including Black Hat USA (2019, 2021, 2023–2025) and RECON Montreal (2023–2025). His independent research in AI/ML, Graphs, and LLMs agents ensures his courses remain cutting-edge and aligned with the latest advances in cybersecurity and reverse engineering.

He previously served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, where his research applied game theory to cybersecurity. His expertise continues to drive innovation in AI-driven cybersecurity and automated reverse engineering.

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