News
2026
May
- Paul won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the College of Engineering. Congratulations Paul!
- Afia successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Anjum!
April
- Our paper “Revisiting Asymmetries in Black-box Link Stealing against Graph Neural Networks” was accepted to ICML 2026.
March
- I received the Outstanding Early Career Research Award from the College of Engineering.
- Our paper “Digital Twin–Guided AI Path Planning for Connectivity-Aware Mobility” was published in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
February
- Our paper “Unveiling Graph Copycats: Inference Attacks with Student Models” was accepted to Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) 2026.
2025
December
- Arkajyoti successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Mitra!
November
- I received the Blossoms of Discovery – Tenure-Track Research Award from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
- Our paper “MorphXAI: An Explainable Framework for Morphological Analysis of Parasites in Blood Smear Images” was accepted to WACV 2026.
August
- Our paper “Beyond Detection: Comparative Explainability Study on Trypanosoma cruzi Using CAMs and DETR Attention” was published in IEEE-EMBS BHI 2025.
- Our paper “DAPS-AGF: Depth-Aware Perceptual Similarity with Adaptive Gradient Filtering for Enhanced Outdoor Scene Reconstruction” was published in ICCVW 2025.
July
- Our paper “FedVLM: Scalable Personalized Vision-Language Models through Federated Learning” was published in ECAI 2025.
- I received the NSF CAREER Award to make autonomous vehicles safer and more resilient against cyber threats. Total: $598,895.
- Our paper “SemPerGe: Unveiling Text-based Adversarial Attacks on Semantic Communication” was published in IEEE CNS 2025.
April
- Our paper “Beyond the Glow: Understanding Luminescent Marker Behavior Against Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems” was published in USENIX VehicleSec 2025.
January
- Our paper “Spec-SCAN: Spectrum Learning in Shared Channel using Neural Networks” was published in IEEE CCNC.
2024
December
- Our paper “MichiCAN: Spoofing and Denial-of-Service Protection using Integrated CAN Controllers” was published in IEEE DSN.
October
- I received the Google-CAHSI Cybersecurity Curriculum Fellowship to adapt and adopt cybersecurity curriculum at HSIs. Total: $25,000.
September
- I received an NIH AIM-AHEAD ABC-EE grant to work on explainable AI/ML models to predict heart disease outcomes in Chagas disease. Total: $250,000.
- Our paper “Simulating Load Sharing for Resource Constrained Devices” was published in IEEE Access.
- Welcome to our new PhD student, Aqsa Yousaf!
August
- Presented our work on “Improving Health Equity in Algorithmic Decision-Making Using Explainable AI” at AIHES 2024.
July
- Our paper “Evaluating Large Language Models for Enhanced Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things Networks” was accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2024.
April
- My Ph.D. student, Paul Agbaje, was awarded the Kelcy Warren Graduate Fellowship for Engineering at UTA. Congratulations Paul.
March
- Congratulations to my PhD students, Afia Anjum and Paul Agbaje, for securing internship offers at Los Alamos National Laboratory!
- Our paper “MCFICS: Model-based Coverage-guided Fuzzing for Industrial Control System Protocol Implementations” was accepted at IEEE IECON 2024.
- Our paper “From Weeping to Wailing: A Transitive Stealthy Bus-off Attack” was accepted in IEEE T-ITS.
February
- Hosted a workshop on “Adversarial Attacks and the Robustness of Object Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles” at OurCS@DFW.
- My Ph.D. student, Afia Anjum, won the Best Ph.D. Lightning Talk Award at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF) 2024. Congratulations Afia.
- Our paper “Towards Named Data Networking Technology: Emerging Applications, Use Cases, and Challenges for Secure Data Communication” was published in Future Generation Computer Systems.
January
- Our paper “AutoWatch: Learning Driver Behavior with Graphs for Auto Theft Detection and Situational Awareness” was accepted at VehicleSec 2024.
- Our paper “Deadline-Based Class Assignment for Time-Sensitive Network Frame Preemption” was accepted at ICIT 2024.
2023
December
- Our paper “IoT-MGSec: Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in IoT Networks Using Graph-Based Learning” was published in ICMLA 2023.
- Our paper “Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Vehicles using Split Learning” was published in BDCAT 2023.
November
- My Ph.D. students Afia Anjum, Paul Agbaje, and Arkajyoti Mitra successfully completed their Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam. Congratulations!
September
- Congratulations to Paul Agbaje and Arkajyoti Mitra for being awarded 2023 Tapia Scholarships to attend the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.
- I received an NIH AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Award to work on improving health equity in algorithmic decision-making using explainable AI/ML. Total: $50,000.
July
- Our paper “FedCime: An Efficient Federated Learning Approach For Clients in Mobile Edge Computing” was published in IEEE EDGE 2023.
May
- Congratulations to Afia Anjum and Paul Agbaje for receiving travel grant awards to attend 2023 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week (CPS-IoT Week).
March
- Two short papers were accepted to the 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).
February
- My Ph.D. student, Afia Anjum, won the runner-up position for Ph.D. Lightning Talk at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF) 2023. Congratulations Afia.
- Hosted a workshop on “Autonomous Vehicles Security” at OurCS@DFW.
January
- Presented our work on “Towards Mitigating Blackhole Attack in NDN-Enabled IoT” at ICCE 2023.
