Authored/co-authored several books: 'Identity Management: Concepts, Technologies, and Systems' (Artech House, 2010), 'Object-Oriented Database Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1993), 'Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems' (Kluwer, 1997), 'Intelligent Database Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 2001)
Published numerous articles in international journals and conference proceedings
Paper 'Fine with “1234”? An Analysis of SMS One-Time Password Randomness in Android Apps' accepted at ICSE 2021
Paper 'A Security-Constrained Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software Defined Networks' accepted at IEEE ICC 2021
Paper 'FastLAS: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming Incorporating Domain-Specific Optimization Criteria' accepted at AAAI 2020
Paper 'PrivIdEX: Privacy Preserving and Secure Exchange of Digital Assets' accepted at The Web Conference 2019
Paper 'Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols' accepted at NDSS 2019
Paper 'Representing and Learning Grammars in Answer Set Programming' accepted at AAAI 2019
Paper 'LTEInspector: A Systematic Approach for Adversarial Testing of 4G LTE' accepted at NDSS 2018 and referenced in Forbes
Paper 'RahasNym: Pseudonymous Identity Management System for Protecting against Linkability' featured in IEEE Computing Now Theme of April 2017
Paper 'Efficient k-Anonymization Using Clustering Techniques' received the 10-year Best Paper Award at DASFAA 2017
Paper 'Ghostbuster: A Fine-Grained Approach for Anomaly Detection in File System Accessed' received Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2017
Recipient of the Kristian Beckman Award
Recipient of the IEEE 2021 Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
Inducted into Purdue Innovator’s Hall of Fame
Research Experience
Co-Editor-in-Chief of GeoInformatica
Former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Editor of Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust
Involved in the NSF Big Data Spokes Project
Member of the Data Analytics and Information Science International Technology Alliance (DAIS ITA)
Taught CS 59000-DSP in Spring 2021
Background
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Heads the Cyber Space Security Lab (Cyber2Slab)
Main research interests span multiple areas in information security and database systems
Recent research focuses on security of cellular networks, mobile applications, and AI techniques for cybersecurity
Research areas include insider threat protection, IoT, sensors, embedded systems, drones, digital identity management, cloud data security and privacy, mobile device privacy, and data trustworthiness