Research Projects

Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks

Malware Detection and Botnets Detection

Spam and Spam Accounts Detection in Social Networks

DroidAid: An Android Permission Control Framework

Security Issues in Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Denial of Service Detection and Mitigation using SDN and NFV

Teaching

Fall 2013: Game Theory and Security

Fall 2014: Game Theory and Security

Fall 2014: Cyber Attacks and Intrusion Detection

Fall 2015: Introduction to Cyber Security

Fall 2015: Data Structure and Object Oriented Programing

Spring 2016: Game Theory and Security

Fall 2016: Database and Application Security

Spring 2017: Introduction to Cyber Security

Fall 2017: Database and Application Security

Professional Services

Conference organization:

TPC Co-chair of the 28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'17)
TPC Co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Network Service Management 2017 (CNSM'17)
General co-chair of IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distriand buted Network Technologies 2017 (DISSECT'17)
Poster co-chair for the IEEE/IFIP symposium on integrated network management 2017 (IM'17)
Publicity co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Network Service Management 2016 (CNSM'16)
General co-chair of IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies 2016 (DISSECT'16)
Publicity co-chair of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft) 2016
Session chair for the 2nd ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2015)
Publicity co-chair of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet'15)
Finance chair of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality and Service 2015 (IWQoS'15)
General chair of IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies 2015 (DISSECT'15)
Publicity co-chair of IEEE/IFIP Integrated Network Management 2015 (IM 2015)
Publicity co-chair of AAAI 2015 Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'15)
Session chair of NOMS 2014 for the Mobile Networking Management track (NOMS 2014)
Panel coordinator of Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC'14)

Journal editor:

Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management (TNSM) 2016, 2017
Guest editor for the journal of IEEE Access special issue on Security and Privacy in Applications and Services for Future Internet of Things 2017.
Guest editor for the international journal on Network Management special issue on Security for Emerging Open Networking Technologies 2017.
Guest editor of Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS) special issue on Next Generation Networks and Systems Security (2015)

Technical committee members:

TPC of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2018
TPC of the 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft'18)
PC member for the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Poster papers 2017
TPC of the 13th International Conference on Network Service Management 2017 (CNSM'17)
TPC of the The 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'17)
TPC of the IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies 2017 (DISSECT'17)
TPC of the SDN-NFV Security 2017 (SDNNFVSEC'17)
TPC of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'17)
TPC of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft'17)
TPC of the Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust 2016 (PST'16)
TPC of the SDN-NFV Security 2016 (SDNNFVSEC'16)
TPC of the IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC'16). Fast Abstract track.
TPC of the 3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms (CrossCloud'16)
TPC of IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet'16)
TPC of the 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-28) 2016
TPC of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft) 2016
TPC of the 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management 2016 (CNSM'16)
TPC of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2016
TPC of the EAI International Conference on Smart Sustainable City Technologies (S2CT) 2015
TPC of Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust 2015 (PST'15)
TPC of AAAI 2015 Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'15)
TPC of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2015)
TPC of IEEE/IFIP Integrated Network Management 2015 (IM 2015)
TPC of Information Security Conference 2014 (ISC 2014)
TPC of Workshop on Computational Social Networks 2014 (CSoNet'14)
TPC of Internatinal conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, PhD track(AIMS 2014)
TPC of ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2014)
TPC of International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN'14)
TPC of Workshop on Trust, Reputation and User Modeling 2014 (TRUM'14)
TPC of AAAI 2014 Workshop on Incentives and Trust in E-Communities (WIT-EC'14)
TPC of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014)
TPC of Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats (MIST 2011)
TPC of Workshop on Women in Machine Learning (WiML 2010)

Internal Services

Organizer for theVCU computer science high school students summer internship program 2016
Faculty mentor for the VIP project 2016, 2017
Steering committee for the Capstone Senior Design 2016, 2017
Search Committee member for new faculty member in Computer Science 2015, 2016, 2017
Search Committee chair for Accountant Specialist in Computer Science 2015
Committee member for the Computer Science Stand Alone Program 2014
Search Committee member for School of Engineering Associate Dean 2014
Search committee member for new faulty member in Computer Science 2013, 2014
Search committee chair for accountant specialist in Computer Science 2014
Search committee chair for system administrator in Computer Science 2014
Seminar coordinator for Computer Science 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017