Research

Research Interests

  • Distributed Computing Data Science: Data-driven resilient management of distributed systems, application of artificial intelligence/machine learning towards resource provisioning for 'data-at-rest' vs. 'data-in-motion', federated system measurement and monitoring, hosting complex applications in Internet of Things and cyber physical systems.
  • Usable Cyber Security: Securing campus cyberinfrastructure and ScienceDMZ, end-to-end security assurance, trustworthy edge and cloud computing, reputation and trust management for next-generation systems, and software-defined networking vulnerability analysis and threat mitigation.

Research Grants

Google Inc.: Optimized Deep Neural Network (DNN) Model extraction threat exploration and mitigation
($100,000, Aug. 2023 - Jul. 2024, Role: PI)

National Science Foundation: CICI: UCSS: Trusted Resource Allocation in Volunteer Edge-Cloud Computing Workflows.
($600,000, Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025, Role: PI from CUNY)

National Science Foundation: CAREER: Anahita: A Resilient and Agile Fog Framework for Large-scale Disaster Incidence Response.
($523,000, Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2025, Role: PI)

National Science Foundation: CC* Integration: End-to-End Performance and Security Driven Federated Data-Intensive Workflow Management.
($500,000, Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2021, Role: PI from CUNY)

CUNY Hunter College Graduate Research and Teaching Initiative: Software-defined Smart Disaster Response Testbed.
($11,500, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2019, Role: PI)

Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York: Project Khaleesi - Mentoring tomorrow's Cyber Security Queen of Dragons.
($25,000, Jun. 2018 - May 2019, Role: PI)

Sponsors