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Current/ Recent Research Projects

• Integrating AI, Biology, Epidemiology and Citizen-Science for Surveillance and Control of Mosquito-borne Diseases
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]


• Multi-disciplinary and Privacy Preserving Techniques to Combat Cyber Risks among Teens
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]


• Assessing Human Behavior from Internet Usage
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]


• Designing Citizen Science Applications for Water Management
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]


• A Multi-disciplinary Framework to Model Cyber Criminals
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]


• Designing Social Computing Applications for Healthcare and Cyber Security
  
     - Source of Support: National Science Foundation [Project]

• Enhancing Fidelity of Quantum Cryptography using Maximally Entangled Qubits
  
     Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Dec 2020.  [.pdf]


• Designing a Health Coach-Augmented mHealth System for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women
  
     IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2020.


• A Framework based on Deep Neural Networks to Extract Anatomy of Mosquitoes from Images
  
     Scientific Reports 10, 13059 (2020).   [.pdf]


• High-accuracy detection of malaria mosquito habitats using drone-based multispectral imagery and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms in an agro-village peri-urban pastureland intervention site (Akonyibedo) in Unyama Sub-County Gulu District Northern Uganda
  
     Journal of Public Health and Epdemiology, Vol 12/3, July 2020.   [.pdf]


• A Mobile Health Intervention System for Women With Coronary Heart Disease: Usability Study
  
     JMIR Formative Research, Vol 4/6, June 2020.   [.pdf]


• Automating the Surveillance of Mosquito Vectors from Trapped Specimens Using Computer Vision Techniques
  
     Proc. of ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), Guayaquil, June 2020.   [.pdf]


• Learning from Tweets: Opportunities and Challenges to Inform Policy Making During Dengue Epidemic
  
     Proc. of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, CSCW1, May 2020.  [.pdf]


• A Generalized Mechanism beyond NLP for Real-Time Detection of Cyber Abuse through Facial Expression Analytics
  
     Proc. of 16th ACM/EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Houston, Nov 2019.  [.pdf]


• How Smart Your Smartphone Is in Lie Detection?
  
     Proc. of 16th ACM/EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Houston, Nov 2019.  [.pdf]


• HEliOS: Huffman Coding Based Lightweight Encryption Scheme for Data Transmission
  
     Proc. of 16th ACM/EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous System: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Houston, Nov 2019.  [.pdf]


• TussisWatch: A Smart-phone System to Identify Cough Episodes as Early Symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure
  
     IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Vol 23/4, July 2019.  [.pdf]


• HuMAn: Complex Activity Recognition with Multi-modal Multi-positional Body Sensing
  
     IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol 18/4, April 2019.  [.pdf]


• Leveraging Smartphone Sensors to Detect Distracted Driving Activities
  
     IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), Oct 2018.  [.pdf]


• Leveraging Smart-Phone Cameras and Image Processing Techniques to Classify Mosquito Species
  
     15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), New York, Nov 2018.  [.pdf]


• Watch-Dog: Detecting Self-Harming Activities from Wrist Worn Accelerometers
  
     IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Vol 22/3, May 2018.  [.pdf]


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• CIS 3363 - IT Systems Security [Syllabus]
  
    Fall 2018/ 2019, Spring 2018/ 2019/ 2020
• CIS 6930 - Information Security and Privacy in Distributed Systems [Syllabus]
  
    Fall 2015/ 2016/ 2017, Spring 2016/ 2017/ 2018/ 2019/ 2020
• COT 4210- Automata Theory and Formal Languages [Syllabus]
  
    Spring 2017

• Security, Privacy and Safety in Intelligent Transportation Systems
  
     Workshop on Cybersecurity in Public Transportation, Tampa, USA, April 2019.


• Brave New World: Privacy & Security in the Age of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  
     Panelist in Cyber Florida Research Symposium, Tampa, USA, April 2019.


• What Constitutes a Good BS in Cyber Security Program - An Academia-Industry Perspective
  
     Sunshine State Teaching & Learning Conference, Daytona Beach, USA, Jan 2019.


• Understanding and Addressing Cybersecurity from Different Angles: Computer Science, Education, and Social Science
  
     Florida Cyber Conference, Tampa, USA, Oct 2018.


• Human Centered Designs for Cyber Security
  
     IEEE Intl. Conf. on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan 2017.


• Wearable Sensing for Activity Recognition Towards Smarter Healthcare
  
     Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, Jan 2017.


• Smart and Connected Healthcare - Challenges, Wearables and Algorithms
  
     Tutorial at Intl. Conf. on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), Orlando, Oct 2016.


• Big-data Techniques for Smarter Mental Health Care
  
     National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India, July 2014.


• Internet Forensics for Smarter Health and Cyber Security
  
     University of North Texas, May 2014.


• Combating Cyber Crimes via Human Behavior Assessment
  
     Interdisciplinary Conference on Cyber Crime at Michigan State University, March 2014.


• What Secrets can the Internet Reveal About Your Health?
  
     Duke University Center for Personalized and Precision Medicine, Feb 2014.


• Fingerprinting Human Behavior in Cyber Space
  
     Los Alamos National Laboratory, Feb 2014


• Experimental Studies on Associating Internet Usage with Mood Disorders
  
     Marquette University, Nov 2013.

• Arup Dey (PhD)
  
     AI for Healthcare

• Hye-Seon Yi (PhD)
  
     AI for Sustainable Societies

• Tanvir Bhuiyan (PhD)
  
     AI for Biology Applications

• Ravi Sharma (PhD)
  
     Mining Social Media

• Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov(MS)
  
     Natural Language Processing

• Bharti Goel (PhD - 2020) - Data Scientist at Verb Surgical Inc.
  
• Mona Minakshi (PhD - 2020) - Cloud Solutions Engineer at Intel
  
• Anthony Windmon (PhD - 2020) - Senior Model Analyst/ Validator and Assistant Vice President at Citibank
  
• Adel Al Sheri (PhD - 2019) - Assistant Professor at King Abdul Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia
  
• Soheil Sarmadi (PhD - 2018)- Data/ AI Scientist at EverestLabs
  
• Pratool Bharti (PhD - 2017) - Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University
  
• Srinivas Thandu (PhD - 2016) - Software Engineer at Amazon
  
• Mark Snyder (PhD - 2014) - Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
  
• Neelanjana Dutta (PhD - 2013) - Cloud R&D Engineer at Intel
  

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• Sireesha Dadi (MS - 2018) - Software Developer II at Pasco County Sheriff's Office
  
• Karthik Siriyala (MS - 2018)- Software Developer II at Pasco County Sheriff's Office
  
• Surya Kamineni (MS - 2017) - Data Scientist at Cross Country Home Services
  
• Anurag Panwar (MS - 2016) - Data Scientist at Samsung Research America
  
• Jake Bielefeldt (MS - 2014) - Software Engineer at Sandia Natl. Labs
  
• Ashok Bolla (MS - 2014) - Data Scientist at Paypal
  
• Doyal Mukherjee (MS - 2014) - Software Engineer at The Cerner Corp.
  
• Sai Preethi Vishwanathan (MS - 2014) - Software Engineer at The Cerner Corp.
  
• Muhammad Al Mutaz (MS - 2013)
  
• Gerry Howser (MS - 2012) - Faculty at Kalamazoo College
  
• Raghavendra Kotikalapudi (MS - 2011) - Machine Learning Software Engineer at Google