Appointed to the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) starting September 2025
Will serve on the Technical Program Committee of IEEE/IFIP DSN 2026
Presented paper 'I will always be by your side: A Side Channel Aided PWM-based Hollistic Attack Recovery for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' at IEEE/IFIP DSN 2025 (June 2025)
Student team presented 'Vision-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnostic in Nuclear Power Plants Using Large Language Models' at ANS NPIC & HMIT 2025 (June 2025)
Paper 'OptiGame: Game-Theoretic Enhancements for Optimistic Rollups through Bayesian Strategies' accepted by SecureComm 2025 (April 2025)
Paper 'PEARL: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Attack Analysis Approach for Security and Robustness As...' accepted (April 2025)
Associate Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (FIU)
Secondary appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joined FIU as Assistant Professor in Spring 2019; previously at Tennessee Tech University’s Department of Computer Science
Leads the Analytics of Cyber Defense (ACyD) Lab at FIU
Senior Member of IEEE and Member of ACM
Primary research interests include security and dependability in cyber and cyber-physical systems (CPS)/IoT, covering computer/information security analysis, control loop security, risk assessment, resiliency hardening, and secure resource allocation
Employs formal methods, artificial intelligence, and game theory in research