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Shankar M. Banik, Ph. D.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Citadel
171 Moultrie Street, Room 222
Charleston, SC 29409
Phone: (843) 953 5039 (Work)
(843) 805 7966 (Home)
(405) 250 8754 (Cell)
E-mail: shankar.banik @citadel.edu
Education
Ph. D. in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0) May 2006
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
M.S. (Thesis) in Computer Science (GPA: 3.9/4.0) May 2001
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
B.Tech. (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering May 1997
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
Appointments
Professor (with tenure) August 2018 – Present
Department of Cyber and Computer Sciences
The Citadel
Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Cyber and Computer Science,
maintaining an active research program, designing new programs / courses on cybersecurity,
leading cybersecurity education and research at The Citadel, advising students, and serving in the
college wide and departmental committees.
Associate Professor (with tenure) August 2012–July 2018
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Citadel
Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science, maintaining
an active research program, designing new programs / courses on cybersecurity, leading
cybersecurity education and research at The Citadel, advising students, and serving in the
college wide and departmental committees.
Assistant Professor August 2006 – July 2012
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
The Citadel
Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science, maintaining
an active research program, advising students, and serving in the college wide and departmental
committees.
Instructor January 2005 – May 2006
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science.
Graduate Teaching Assistant January 2003 – December 2004
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Responsibilities: Teaching lab sections of programming courses, designing and grading class
projects, assisting students with their home-works and projects.
Graduate Research Assistant September 1999 – December 2002
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Responsibilities:
Worked on a research project “Multicast Routing with Delay and Delay Variation
Constraints”, funded by School of Computer Science.
Worked on a research project “Duplicating Delays in Network Multicasting”, funded by Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
Worked on a research project “Energy Efficient Transaction Management for Mobile and
Real Time Databases in Ad-hoc Networks,” funded by National Science Foundation.
Other Positions and Employment
Assistant IT Analyst October 1997 – August 1999
British American Tobacco (BAT), Bangladesh
Responsibilities:
Developed “Technical Training Information Systems” using MS Access and Visual Basic for
storing the training information of the employees in a relational database and generating
different reports.
Led a Project Team for developing a Supply Chain Software using Visual Basic and Oracle on
Windows NT. Tasks involved identifying requirements and specifications of the system,
developing, testing, conducting training and ensuring smooth operation of the system.
Was a key member in the implementation team of “Tetra CS/3” which is the ERP (Enterprise
Resource Planning) Software used by BAT Bangladesh.
Honors and Awards Faculty Excellence Award in Service (2017).
Early Career Award, Citadel Academy of Science and Mathematics (2017).
Award of Recognition, The Citadel Board of Visitors (2016).
Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions, The Citadel Graduate College (2014).
Computing Research Association (CRA) Academic Careers Workshop Scholarship (2006).
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Oklahoma (2005).
Robberson Conference Presentation Travel Grant, Graduate College, University of Oklahoma (2004).
Conference and Creative Exhibition Grant, Graduate Student Senate, University of Oklahoma (2004).
Ranked 16th
among 150,000 students in the Secondary School Certificate Examination, Dhaka,
Bangladesh (1990).
Teaching
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses CSCI 103: Survey of Computer Science
CSCI 110: Microcomputer Applications (Course Coordinator)
CSCI 201: Introduction to Computer Science I
CSCI 201: Introduction to Computer Science II
CSCI 227: Principles and Practices of Cybersecurity (Course Developer)
CSCI 317: Computer Networks and Internet
CSCI 327: Computer Security
CSCI 355: Programming Language
CSCI 405: Operating Systems
CSCI 427: Advanced Cybersecurity (Course Developer)
CSCI 499: Senior Research Project
Graduate Courses CSCI 614: Advanced Operating Systems
CSCI 631: Privacy and Security Issues
CSCI 632: Data Communications and Networking
CSCI 641: Advanced Cybersecurity (Course Developer)
CSCI 691: Independent Study
CSCI 690: Research Thesis
Mentoring Students
Undergraduate Students Joshua Dockery, 2007, Implementation and Simulation of Random Floor Control
Protocols on Linux Systems.
Logan Daigle, 2008, Implementation of Distributed and Centralized Floor Control
Protocols on PlanetLab Network.
Tao-Hsiang Chang, 2009, Priority-based Distributed Floor Control Protocol.
Zachary Aardahl, 2010, Multiple Source Multicasting with Delay and Delay
Variation Constraints on Overlay Networks.
Sean Feeney, Zachary Aardahl, 2011, AD-NEMO: Adaptive and Dynamic
Network Expansion with Mobile rObots.
Derek Bernsen, 2013, IMAID: Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion Detection
in Peer-to-peer Networks.
Hugh Urey, 2014 – Present, Protecting Peer-to-peer Network with Roaming
Agents.
Luis Pena, 2015, Deploying Agents in the Network to Detect Intrusions.
Ike Clinton, Lance Cook, 2015, Analyzing Vulnerabilities in Internet of Things
(IoTs).
Anthony Zovich, Michael Newton, 2016, Analyzing Privacy and Security of
Internet Voting.
Chris Gibson, 2016, Impact of Ransomware on Business.
Jose Delgado, Robert DeCort, 2016, Fire Location and Intrusion Prevention
Protocol.
James Andrus, 2017, Fair Timed Network Communication for Collaborative
Applications.
Tai Lum, 2017, Aggregating and Linking Social Media Data to Analyze Privacy of
Users.
John Delpizzo, Richard Honeycutt, Elizabeth Spoehel, 2018, “Analyzing
Security in Networks with Internet of Things (IoTs)”.
Graduate Students
Bryan Gilbert, 2009, NEMO: Network Expansion with Mobile rObots.
Noah Dietrich, 2010, Load Balancing and Quality Controlled Framework for
Distributed Virtual Environments.
Jonathan Ng, 2013, “Applying Data Mining Techniques to Intrusion Detection”
Nick Rhodes, 2014-2016, Empirical Evaluations of Designing Multicast Network
with Minimum Delay Variations.
John Ravan (Ph.D. Student at USC), 2014 – Present, Ensuring Consistent
Transactions in a Web Service Environment with Prediction-based Performance
Metrics.
Andrew Tye, Philip Straney, 2016-17, Voice Exploitation for Amazon Echo.
Andrew Tye (M.S. Thesis), 2016-2018, Efficient Detection of Insider Threats with
a Proactive Approach.
Scholarly and Professional Activities
Published Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals (+Graduate Student, *Undergraduate Student)
*James, Andrus, Shankar Banik, Michael Verdicchio, Breeanne Swart, “Multicast
Routing using Delay Intervals for Collaborative and Competitive Applications”, IEEE
Transactions on Communications, 66(12): 6329-6338, 2018.
Michael Verdicchio, Deepti Joshi, Shankar Banik, “Embedding Cybersecurity in the
Second Programming Course (CS2)”, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol.
32(2), pp. 165 –171, December 2016.
+Nicklaus Rhodes, Shankar M. Banik, “On the Empirical Evaluation of Multicasting with
Minimum Delay Variation”, International Journal of Networked and Distributed
Computing (IJNDC), Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 22- 31, January 2016.
Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Shankar M Banik, Venkatesh Sarangan, Chandra N Sekharan,
“Delay Constrained Subtree Homeomorphism Problem with Applications”, IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, December 2011, Vol. 22, No. 12, pages
1978 - 1985.
Chandra N. Sekharan, Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, “On the Heterogeneous
Postal Delivery Model for Multicasting”, Journal of Communications and Networks
October 2011, Vol. 13, No. 5, pages 536 - 543 .
Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Venkatesh Sarangan, Chandra N Sekharan,
“Implementation of Distributed Floor Control Protocols on Overlay Networks”, IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, August 2008, Vol. 19, No. 8, pages
1057-1070.
Le Gruenwald, Shankar M Banik, Chuo N Lau, Matilde Montealegre, “Managing Real-
Time Database Transactions in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”, International Journal on
Distributed and Parallel Databases, August 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1, pages 27-54.
Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Chandra N Sekharan, “Multicast Routing with
Delay and Delay Variation Constraints for Collaborative Applications on Overlay
Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, March 2007, Vol. 18,
No. 3, pages 421-431.
Complete Articles Published in Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings (*Undergraduate Student,
+Graduate Student)
*Anthony Zovich, *Michael Newton, *Smith Gaddy, Shankar M. Banik, “CHIVES:
Design and Prototype of an Internet Voting Encryption System”, World Congress on
Internet Security, 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
+Andrew Tye,
+Philip Straney, Shankar M. Banik, “Amazon Echo: Field Analysis and
Voice Exploitation”, World Congress on Internet Security, 2017, Cambridge, United
Kingdom.
*Christopher Gibson, Shankar M. Banik, “Analyzing the Effect of Ransomware on
Different Industries”, International Conference on Computational Science and
Computational Intelligence – Cyber Warfare, Cyber Defense, Cyber Security Symposium,
2017, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shankar M. Banik, Deepti Joshi, “Embedding Cybersecurity in Introduction to
Programming I”, Information Systems Education Conference (ISECON) 2015, Orlando,
Florida.
Shankar M. Banik, *Luis Pena, “Deploying Agents in the Network to Detect Intrusions,
IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS), 2015,
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shankar M. Banik, *Hugh Urey, “Protecting Peer-to-peer Network with Roaming
Agents”, IEEE SoutheastCon 2015, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
+Jonathan Ng, Deepti Joshi, Shankar M. Banik, “Applying Data Mining Techniques to
Intrusion Detection”, 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New
Generations (ITNG) 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shankar M. Banik, *Derek Bernsen, Muhammad Javed “IMAIDS: Intelligent Mobile
Agent-based Intrusion Detection System”, 51st ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE
2013), Savannah, Georgia.
Shankar M. Banik, *Zachary C. Aardahl “M3DDVC: Multi-source Multicasting using
Multi-cores with Delay and Delay Variation Constraints on Overlay Networks”, 2nd
International Symposium on Middleware and Network Applications (part of 8th
International Conference on Information Technology New Generations - ITNG 2011), Las
Vegas, Nevada.
+Noah Dietrich, Shankar M. Banik, “Load Balancing and Quality of Service Constraints
Framework for Distributed Virtual Environments”, 6th
International Conference on
Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom
2010), Chicago, Illinois.
George Rudolph, Shankar M. Banik, +Bryan W. Gilbert, “AD-NEMO: Adaptive
Dynamic Network Expansion Mobile rObots”, 48th
ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE
2010), Oxford, Mississippi.
Shankar M. Banik, *Tao-hsiang Chang, “GPRIDE – A Generalized PRIority-based
DistributEd Floor Control Protocol for Collaborative Applications”, 21st International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009), Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Shankar M. Banik, *Logan P. Daigle, *Tao-hsiang Chang, “Implementation and
Empirical Evaluations of Floor Control Protocols on PlanetLab Network”, 47th
ACM
Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2009), Clemson, South Carolina.
Shankar M. Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, “Minimizing Broadcast Latency for Ad-hoc
Wireless Networks”, 45th
ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2007), Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Tao Zheng, Chandra N Sekharan, “Distributed
Floor Control Protocols for Computer Collaborative Applications on Overlay Networks”,
1st IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications
and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2005), San Jose, California.
Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Chandra N Sekharan, “Multicast Routing with
Delay and Delay Variation Constraints for Multimedia Communications”, 7th
IEEE
International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications
(HSNMC 2004), Toulouse, France.
Chandra N Sekharan, Shankar M Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishan, Nageswara S. V. Rao,
“Duplicating Delays in Network Multicasting : Model, Algorithm and Validation”, 2nd
IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information
Technology, (CIIT 2003), Scottsdale, Arizona.
Le Gruenwald, Shankar M Banik, “A Power-Aware Technique to Manage Real-Time
Database Transactions in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,” 4th
International Workshop on
Mobility in Database and Distributed Systems, part of the International Conference on
Database and EXpert systems Applications (DEXA 2001), Germany.
Le Gruenwald, Shankar M Banik, “Energy Efficient Transaction Management for Real
Time Mobile Databases in Ad-hoc Network Environments”, International Conference on
Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001), Hong Kong.
Peer-reviewed Technical Report
*Ike Clinton, *Lance Cook, Shankar M Banik, “A Survey of Various Methods for
Analyzing Amazon Echo”, https://www.scribd.com/document/355663001/Clinton-Cook-
Paper
Complete Articles in Editorial Review
+Nicklaus Rhodes, Shankar M. Banik, “Efficient Multicasting for Collaborative
Applications with Delay and Delay Variation Constraints”, International Journal on
Networking and Computing (submitted in October 2017).
James Andrus, Shankar M. Banik, Breeanne Swart, Michael Verdicchio, “Multicast
Routing using Delay Intervals for Collaborative and Competitive Applications”, IEEE
Transactions in Communications (submitted in October 2017).
Articles Published in Non-refereed Conference Proceedings
Shankar M Banik, *Logan Daigle, “Implementing Distributed Floor Control Protocols on
PlanetLab Network”, IEEE Southeast Conference 2008, Huntsville, Alabama, April 2008.
Other Published Evidence of Scholarship
Dissertation/Thesis
Shankar M. Banik, “Protocols for Collaborative Applications on Overlay Networks”,
Doctoral Dissertation, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, 2006.
Shankar M Banik, “Energy Efficient Transaction Management for Real-Time Mobile
Databases in Ad-Hoc Network Environment”, Master’s Thesis, School of Computer
Science, University of Oklahoma, 2001.
Shankar M Banik, “Verification of Data Paths of Sequential Circuits with Respect to
their VHDL Behavioral Specification”, B. Tech (Hons.) Thesis, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, 1997.
Educational Materials
Prepared PowerPoint Slides for each chapter of the textbook “Computer Networks:
Systems Approach” written by Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie, Morgan Kaufman
2011(5th
Edition).
Articles
Small Business Can Repel Malicious Attacks by Being Cyber Shrewd, Charleston
Business Magazines, July 2017
Cybersecurity and 9/11, Post and Courier, September 2016.
BLOG on “What is missing in our Cybersecurity Education?” for DIGSOUTH 2014.
Research Posters (*Undergraduate Student,
+Graduate Student)
*Anthony Zovich, *Michael Newton, “Analyzing Privacy and Security of Internet
Voting”, Citadel Student Research Conference, 2017.
*Chris Gibson, “Impact of Ransomware on Business”, Citadel Student Research
Conference, 2017.
*Jose Delgado, *Robert DeCort, “FLIPP: Fire Location and Intrusion Prevention
Protocol”, Citadel Student Research Conference, 2017.
*James Andrus, 2017, “Fair Timed Network Communication for Collaborative
Applications”, Citadel Student Research Conference, 2017.
*Ike Clinton, *Lance Cook, “Analyzing Vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT)”,
Citadel Student Research Conference 2016.
+Kathy Campbell,
+Brent Jameson, “Fighting Botnets: What’s a User to do”, The Citadel
Homeland Security and Intelligence Conference 2015.
*Luis Pena, “Deploying Agents in the Network to Detect Intrusions”, Citadel Student
Research Conference 2015.
+Nicklaus Rhodes, “Empirical Evaluation of Designing Multicasting Network with
Minimum Delay Variation”, Citadel Student Research Conference 2015.
*Hugh Urey, “Protecting Peer-to-peer Network with Roaming Agents”, Citadel Student
Research Conference 2014.
+Jonathan Ng, “Applying Data Mining Techniques to Intrusion Detection”, Citadel
Student Research Conference 2014.
*Derek Bernsen, Shankar M Banik, “IMAIDS: Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion
Detection System”, Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference 2012.
*Sean Feeney, *Zachary Aardahl, George Rudolph, Shankar M Banik, “Adaptive Dynamic
Network Expansion with Mobile rObots”, Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference
2011.
*Zachary Aardahl, Shankar M Banik, “Designing a Multi-Core Based Multicasting
Network with Delay and Delay Variation Constraints for Collaborative Applications”,
Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference 2010.
*Eric Irwin, *Kevin Bowling, George Rudolph, Shankar M Banik, Tom Jerse,
“Calculating Full-Wave Electromagnetism using PEEC (Partial Element Equivalent
Circuit) Method with Parallel MPI Fortran Algorithm”, Citadel Undergraduate Research
Conference 2010.
*Tao-hsiang Chang, Shankar M Banik, “Priority-based Distributed Floor Control Protocol
for Collaborative Applications”, Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference 2009.
*Logan Daigle, Shankar M Banik, “Implementing Floor Control Protocols for
Collaborative Applications on PlanetLab Network”, Citadel Undergraduate Research
Conference 2008.
Presentation at Conferences and Professional Meetings
“CHIVES: Design and Prototype of an Internet Voting Encryption System”, World
Congress on Internet Security, 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
“Amazon Echo: Field Analysis and Voice Exploitation”, World Congress on Internet
Security, 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
“Analyzing the Effect of Ransomware on Different Industries”, International Conference
on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence – Cyber Warfare, Cyber
Defense, Cyber Security Symposium, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Cybersecurity Programs and Activities at The Citadel”, Invited Speaker at 83rd
Annual
Convention of South Carolina Telecommunication and Broadband Association, March
2017.
“Protecting Cyberspace by Deploying Agents”, Phi Kappa Phi Brown Bag Lunch Talk,
February 2017.
“What Everybody Should Know about Cybersecurity”, Invited Speaker at Charleston
Association of Government Accountants Professional Development Training Conference,
November 2016.
“Cybersecurity Programs and Activities at The Citadel”, Invited Speaker at The Citadel
Club of Greater Washington, Washington DC, October 2016.
“Cybersecurity Education Programs in Lowcountry”, Panel Member, Cybersecurity
Monthly Meeting at PhishLabs in September 2016.
“What Everybody Should Know about Cybersecurity”, Invited Keynote Speaker at Sigma
Xi Charleston Chapter Annual Banquet, April 2016.
Embedding Cybersecurity in Introduction to Programming I, Information Systems
Education Conference (ISECON) 2015, November 5 – 7, 2015, Orlando, Florida.
Empirical Evaluation of Designing Multicasting Network with Minimum Delay Variation,
IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2015),
June 28 – July 1, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Deploying Agents in the Network to Detect Intrusions, IEEE/ACIS International
Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2015), June 28 – July 1, 2015,
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Protecting Peer-to-peer Network with Roaming Agents, IEEE SoutheastCon 2015, April 9
- 12, 2015 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
What everybody should know about Cybersecurity, Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science Colloquium, The Citadel, April 15, 2015.
IMAIDS: Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion Detection System, 51st ACM Southeast
Conference (ACMSE 2013), Savannah, Georgia, April 2013.
AD-NEMO: Adaptive Dynamic Network Expansion with Mobile rObots, The 2011-2012
STEM Innovation Challenges Institute hosted by The STEM Center of Excellence at The
Citadel, July, 2011.
M3DDVC: Multi-source Multicasting using Multi-cores with Delay and Delay Variation
Constraints on Overlay Networks, 2nd
International Symposium on Middleware and
Network Applications (part of 8th
International Conference on Information Technology
New Generations - ITNG 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2011.
Load Balancing and Quality of Service Constraints Framework for Distributed Virtual
Environments, 6th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, Illinois, October 2010.
GPRIDE – A Generalized PRIority-based DistributEd Floor Control Protocol for
Collaborative Applications, 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November, 2009.
Implementation and Empirical Evaluations of Floor Control Protocols on PlanetLab
Network, 47th
ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2009), Clemson, South Carolina,
March 2009.
Implementing Distributed Floor Control Protocols on PlanetLab Network, IEEE Southeast
Conference 2008, Huntsville, Alabama, April 2008.
Protocols and Algorithms for Collaborative Applications on Internet, Sigma Xi The
Citadel Chapter Talk, March 2008.
Implementing Protocols for Collaborative Applications on PlanetLab Network, ACM The
Citadel Chapter Talk, March 2008.
Minimizing Broadcast Latency for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, 45th
ACM Southeast
Conference (ACMSE 2007), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 2007.
Distributed Floor Control Protocols for Computer Collaborative Applications on Overlay
Networks”, 1st IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2005), San Jose, California, December
2005.
Multicast Routing with Delay and Delay Variation Constraints for Multimedia
Communications, 7th
IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and
Multimedia Communications (HSNMC 2004), Toulouse, France, June 2004.
Duplicating Delays in Network Multicasting : Model, Algorithm and Validation, 2nd
IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information
Technology, (CIIT 2003), Scottsdale, Arizona, November 2003.
Multicasting Needs for Grid Computing, Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2003,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, September 2003.
Grants
Funded
External Grants
“GenCyber: CyberCitadel: Cybersecurity Training for Middle and High School Teachers”,
National Security Agency and National Science Foundation 2016. $99,038.
“Aggregating and Linking Social Media Data for Analyzing Privacy of a User”,
SC EPSCoR IDeA Grant 2017, $7,488.
“Ensuring Fairly Timed Network Communications”, SC EPSCoR IDeA Grant, $7,488.
“Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship”, National Security Agency,
2017, $71,884.49.
“Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship”, National Security Agency,
2018, $140,820.
“GenCyber: CyberCitadel: Cybersecurity Training for Middle and High School Students”,
National Security Agency and National Science Foundation 2018. $63,368.
“GenCyber: Girls who Smash Codes: Cybersecurity Training for Middle and High School
Girls”, National Security Agency and National Science Foundation 2019. $67,872.
.
Internal Grants
“Analyzing Security of Network of Internet-of-Things (IoTs)”, The Citadel Foundation
Faculty Research Grant, 2018.
“Integrating Access Control and Anomaly Detection for Insider Threat Problem”, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2017.
“Enhancing the Performance of IMAIDS (Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion
Detection System) with Machine Learning”, The Citadel Foundation Faculty Research
Grant, 2016.
“Designing a Prototype of IMAIDS (Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion Detection
System) and testing its performance on PlanetLab”, The Citadel Foundation Faculty
Research Grant, 2015.
“Designing a Secure Protocol for Multicast Network for Collaborative Applications”, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2014.
“Designing Architecture and Protocols for Agent-based Intrusion Detection Systems in
P2P networks”, The Citadel Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2013.
“Network Architecture for Virtual World Applications”, The Citadel Foundation Faculty
Research Grant, 2012.
“IMAID: Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion Detection in Peer-to-peer Networks”,
The Citadel Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2011.
“Protocol Design for a Multicast Network for Collaborative Applications”, The Citadel
Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2010.
“Multicast Network Design for Collaborative Applications”, The Citadel Foundation
Faculty Research Grant, 2009.
“NEMO: Network Expansion with Mobile rObots”, Dean Summer Research Grant, School
of Science and Mathematics, The Citadel, 2008 (with George Rudolph).
“Protocols for Collaborative Applications on Hybrid Overlay Network”, The Citadel
Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2008.
“Implementing Protocols for Collaborative Applications on the PlanetLab”, The Citadel
New Faculty Development Grant, 2007.
Internal Presentation Grants
“CHIVES: Design and Prototype of an Internet Voting Encryption System”, The Citadel
Foundation Presentation Grant 2017.
“Embedding Cybersecurity in Introduction to Programming I” The Citadel Foundation
Presentation Grant 2015.
“Empirical Evaluation of Designing Multicasting Network with Minimum Delay
Variation”, The Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant 2015.
“Deploying Agents in the Network to Detect Intrusions”, The Citadel Foundation
Presentation Grant 2015.
“Protecting Peer-to-peer Network with Roaming Agents”, The Citadel Foundation
Presentation Grant 2015.
“IMAIDS: Intelligent Mobile Agent-based Intrusion Detection System”, The Citadel
Foundation Presentation Grant 2013.
“M3DDVC:Multi-source Multicasting using Multi-cores with Delay and Delay Variation
Constraints on Overlay Networks”, The Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant 2011.
“Load Balancing and Quality of Service Constrained Framework for Distributed Virtual
Environments”, The Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant 2010.
“GPRIDE-A Generalized Priority-Based Distributed Floor Control Protocol for
Collaborative Applications”, The Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant 2009.
“Implementations and Empirical Evaluations of Floor Control Protocols on PlanetLab
Network”, The Citadel Foundation Presentation Grant 2009.
“Implementing Distributed Floor Control Protocols on PlanetLab Network”, The Citadel
Foundation Presentation Grant 2008.
“Minimizing Broadcast Latency in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, The Citadel Foundation
Presentation Grant 2007.
Internal Development Grants
Attendance at Cyber Conflict Conference (CYCON), 2018, The Citadel Foundation
Faculty Development Grant 2018.
Attendance at ACM SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education, 2017, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Development Grant 2017.
Attendance at National Cyber Summit, 2016, The Citadel Foundation Faculty
Development Grant 2016.
Attendance at Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) 2016, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Development Grant 2016.
Attendance at Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) 2015, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Development Grant 2015.
Attendance at Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) 2014, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Development Grant 2014.
Attendance at FloCon Network Security Conference 2014, The Citadel Foundation Faculty
Development Grant 2014.
Attendance at ACM SIGCSE Workshops on Secure Programming, The Citadel Foundation
Faculty Development Grant 2010.
Attendance at the 17th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium, The
Citadel Foundation Faculty Development Grant 2008.
Submitted
“PANDA- Protocols and Algorithms for Next generation Digital hAbitats”, National
Science Foundation, 2008, Collaborative Research Proposal with Sridhar Radhakrishnan
(University of Oklahoma), Chandra N. Sekharan (Loyola University Chicago), and
Venkatesh Sarangan (Oklahoma State University).
REU Site: “Applied Research in Informatics and Security”, National Science Foundation,
2012, Collaborative Proposal with Paul Anderson (College of Charleston), Deepti Joshi
(The Citadel), and Michael Verdicchio (The Citadel).
REU Site: “Date Driven Network Analysis”, National Science Foundation, 2013,
Collaborative Proposal with Deepti Joshi (The Citadel), and Michael Verdicchio (The
Citadel).
“Student Centered Mentoring Program to Build Cyber Security Workforce”, National
Science Foundation, 2014, Collaborative Proposal with Csilla Farkas (University of South
Carolina).
“SMART - Science and Mathematics Apprenticeships for Research and Teaching”,
National Science Foundation 2016, Collaborative Proposal with Antara Mukherjee (The
Citadel) and Jennifer Albert (Director of STEM Center, The Citadel).
“Developing an Interdisciplinary Program for Cyber Soldiers”, National Centers of
Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, National Security Agency 2016,
Collaborative Proposal with Carl Jensen and Ed Lugo (Department of Criminal Justice,
The Citadel).
“Collaborative Research: Multi-Tier Mentoring Program for Cybersecurity”, National
Science Foundation, 2016, Collaborative Proposal with Csilla Farkas (University of South
Carolina).
“Embedding Cybersecurity Concepts and Perspectives throughout the Undergraduate
Computer Science Curriculum”, National Science Foundation 2016.
“Citadel CyberCorps: Principled Leaders with Cybersecurity Expertise”, National Science
Foundation Scholarship for Service (SFS), 2016.
“Citadel CyberCorps: Principled Leaders with Cybersecurity Expertise”, National Science
Foundation Scholarship for Service (SFS), 2017.
Workshops attended for Professional Development
Cybersecurity Education Workshop (SIGCSE), Seattle, Washington, March 2017.
International Security Education Workshop (CISSE 2016), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2016.
NSF Proposal Writing Workshop, (CISSE 2015), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2015.
NSA/DHS Center for Academic Excellence Workshop (CISSE 2015), Las Vegas, Nevada, June
2015.
Secure Programming Education Workshop (CISSE 2014), San Diego, California, June 2014.
ACM SIGCSE Workshop on Secure Programming, Portland, Oregon, March 2008.
17th
Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, March
2010.
Service
Service to College
Program Director, NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence Cyber Defense
Education Program, 2016-Present.
Responsibilities: Representing the college at Program Directors’ meeting organized
by NSA, Preparing Annual Report for NSA Program Office, Advising students for
NSA/DHS designated academic path, Reviewing Cybersecurity Curriculum based
on the requirement set by NSA/DHS.
Co-Director, Center Cyber, Intelligence, and Security Studies, 2016-Present
Responsibilities: Working with other Co-Director Dr. Carl Jensen with organizing
meeting for the center, promoting educations programs, research collaboration and
outreach activities in cybersecurity and intelligence.
Coordinator, Cybersecurity/Intelligence Scholars Program, 2016-Present
Responsibilities: Working with other Coordinator Dr. Carl Jensen with recruiting
cybersecurity and intelligence scholars, organizing academic enrichment activities
for cybersecurity and intelligence scholars.
Faculty Development Committee, 2007-2013
Responsibilities: Reviewing Faculty Development Proposals and determine
appropriate Faculty Development Opportunities for all faculty at the college.
Faculty Council, 2013-14.
Responsibilities: Representing the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science in the Faculty Council.
Faculty Senate, 2016-Present.
Responsibilities: Representing the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science in the Faculty Senate.
Graduate Council, 2011-15
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2015 - Present
Responsibilities: Representing the Graduate Program in Computer Science.
Citadel Cybersecurity Industry Advisory Board, 2015 – Present
Citadel Cyber Advisory Group, 2011 - 2013
Responsibilities: Working with industry, academia, and government agencies to
design curriculum on cybersecurity for graduate and undergraduate levels at The
Citadel.
International Education Study Group, 2008
Responsibilities: Worked on institutional, curriculum and resource issues for
international education study at The Citadel.
Citadel Student Research Conference Program Committee, 2009-2015
Responsibilities:
Organized (along with Dena Garner and Wes Dudgeon) The Citadel
Undergraduate Research Conference (CURC) in 2010 and 2011.
Led the program committee in writing the proposals, sending out the Call for
Abstracts, inviting judges to evaluate the posters, printing the conference
proceedings and ensuring the successful completion of the conference.
Citadel Undergraduate Research Conference Judge, 2007-2008
Responsibilities: Judged students’ posters presented at the conference.
Service to Department
Chair, Computer Science Curriculum and Assessment Committee, 2015 – present
Responsibilities: Reviewing current curriculum for B. S. in Computer Science
program and proposing possible recommendations.
Computer Science Accreditation Committee, 2006-2007, 2013-14
Responsibilities:
Participated in writing for the ABET self-study report including course
descriptions for CSCI 317, 327, 405, and 407.
Assembled course books for CSCI 201, 317, 327, and 405. Each book
included syllabus, project handouts and graded student work of homeworks,
quizzes, midterm and final exams.
Computer Science Faculty Search Committee, 2010 – 2011, 2016-17 (Chair)
Responsibilities:
Reviewing applications.
Conducting telephone interviews and arranging campus interviews for
potential candidates.
Computer Science Graduate Program Director, 2011 – Present
Responsibilities:
Reviewing applications and interviewing potential graduate students
Coordinating with College of Charleston Computer Science Graduate
Program Director
Service to Students
Faculty Advisor, Computer Science Majors, 2007 – Present
Responsibilities:
Advising Computer Science Majors with their course enrollments.
Faculty Advisor, The Citadel ACM Chapter, 2008 – Present
Responsibilities:
Advising student officers in organizing monthly meetings and activities for
the club.
Faculty Advisor, The Citadel Cybersecurity Club, 2014 – Present
Responsibilities:
Advising student officers in organizing monthly meetings and activities for
the club.
Faculty Advisor, Computer Science Programming Team, 2008 – present
Responsibilities:
Selecting the team members.
Conducting the weekly practice session for the team.
Accompanying the team to the ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest (ICPC) Southeast USA region and CCSC Southeastern Region
Programming Contest.
Faculty Advisor, Cyber Defense Team, 2013 – present
Responsibilities:
Selecting the team members.
Conducting the weekly practice session for the team.
Accompanying the team to the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition
(PCDC) and HackWarz at C5ISR meeting.
Service to Community
Participated in an Earth Day community service project called Clean Cities Sweep under
the banner ACM Student Chapter of The Citadel in March 2007.
Service to Discipline
Program Committee Member and Co-organizer
Cyber Security for National Security (CS4NS), 1st Regional Cybersecurity
Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, September 2013 (partnered with SCRA,
Homeland Security Outlook, and University of South Carolina).
Panel Member, Cyber Security Education
Cyber Security for National Security (CS4NS), 1st Regional Cybersecurity
Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, September 2013.
Program Committee Member
World Congress on Internet Security 2016, 2017, Cambridge, UK.
Program Committee Member
ACM SIGCSE 2017, Seattle, Washington.
ACM SIGCSE 2018, Baltimore, Maryland.
Program Committee Member
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) 2018, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Program Committee Member
11th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom) 2015, Wuhan, China.
10th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom) 2014, Miami, Florida.
9th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom) 2013, Austin, Texas.
7th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom) 2011, Orlando, Florida.
4th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom) 2008, Orlando, Florida.
25th
Annual CCSC Southeastern Conference, 2011, Furman University, South
Carolina.
Local Organizing Committee Member
MAA-SE 2008, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.
Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Journal of Communications and Networks.
Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications.
International Journal on Parallel and Distributed Databases.
Milcom International Conference for Military Communications 2015, Tampa,
Florida.
ACM Southeast Conference 2007, Winston Salem, North Carolina.
ACM Southeast Conference 2009, Clemson, South Carolina.
Judge
CCSC Southeast Programming Contest 2007, Coastal Carolina University.
CCSC Southeast Programming Contest 2008, Augusta State University.
CCSC Southeast Programming Contest 2010, Spelman University.
Session Chair
“Social Computing” Session at 8th
International Conference on Information
Technology New Generations - ITNG 2011
“Peer-to-Peer” session at 6th
International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010)
“Distributed Computing Session” at 21st International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS) 2009
“Networks Session” at the 47th
ACM Southeast Conference 2009
Professional Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).
Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society.
POC for Cyberwatch for The Citadel.
POC for National Cyber Security Awareness Month Champion at The Citadel
POC for STOP THINK and CONNECT campaign at The Citadel
Other Activities and Leadership
Co-founder and Executive Council Member, Computer Science Graduate Student Association,
University of Oklahoma (2004-2006).
Program Committee Member, 1st Annual Computer Science Research Conference, University
of Oklahoma, April 2005.
Program Committee Member, 2nd
Annual Computer Science Research Conference, University
of Oklahoma, April 2006.
Senator, Graduate Student Senate, University of Oklahoma (2004-2005).
Member, Engineers’ Institution of Bangladesh (1997 – 1999).
General Secretary, Bangladesh Student Association, IIT, Kharagpur (1995-96).