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I am an Assistant Professor in the School of EECS at Washington State University (WSU). I lead the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Research Lab (CPS2RL). Before joining EECS@WSU, I held an Assistant Professor position in the School of Computing at Wichita State University from 2021-2022. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). My doctoral work focused on securing real-time systems, particularly integrating security as a first-class design principle in real-time schedulers.

My research interests are broadly in building trustworthy computer systems, with a focus on real-time systems. Ongoing efforts include (a) exploring security in real-time and cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, and software-defined vehicles, (b) building predictable and trustworthy machine learning models, (c) management and resilience of time-critical networks, and (d) strengthening digital agriculture cybersecurity.

  See more on my curriculum vitae and research publications.

  Graduate Student Openings (Spring/Fall 2027)

I look forward to hiring two PhD students who will be working on the topics related to (i) security and resiliency of real-time and CPS/IoT/V2X/edge systems, (ii) quantum cyber-physical systems, and (iii) building resource-aware real-time machine learning frameworks. Students with prior research experience, expertise in Systems (operating systems, embedded systems programming, Linux kernel development), and a significant online presence (contributing to open-source tools and maintaining active visibility on GitHub or similar platforms) are strongly encouraged to contact me.

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EME B53
355 NE Spokane Street
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
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+1 509 335 8352