Current Grants

Google Cloud Research Award 2022-2023

• PI: IoTSec: Edge Network Malware Detection with Deep Learning for Smart Home.
• Duration: 07/15/2022 - 07/16/2023
• Amount: $5,000.00

Google Cloud Teaching Award 2022-2023

• PI: Cloud credits for supporting students and instructors in the course of CS 363 Computer Security.
• Duration: 07/14/2022 - 08/22/2023
• Amount: Up to $5,000.00

Intel Corp. Grant 2022

• Co-PI and major proposal writer: Accelerated Malware Detection in Executable Files with Machine Learning.
• Duration: 12/01/2021 - 11/30/2022
• Amount: $499,999.00

NSF 17-528 CICI

• Co-PI and major proposal writer: CICI: RSARC: SECTOR: Building a SEcure and Compliant Cyberinfrastructure for Translational Research. link
• Duration: 09/01/2017 - 08/30/2022
• Award number: NSF #1738965
• Amount: $999,651.00

Past Grants

Intel Corp. Grant 2020

• Co-PI and major proposal writer: Machine Learning Based Network Traffic Analysis on Intel Processors.
• Amount: $499,999.00

Intel Corp. Grant 2018

• Co-PI and major proposal writer: Machine Learning Based Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis on Intel Processors.
• Amount: $499,999.00

Intel Academic Grant 2017

• Major proposal writer: Performance Evalulation and Optimization of Network Functions in DPDK Environment.
• Amount: $50,000.00

NSF 16-533 CICI

• Proposal writer: CICI: Secure Data Architecture: STREAMS: Secure Trans- port and REsearch Architecture for Monitoring Stroke Recovery.
• Award number: NSF #1547428
• Amount: $515,858.00

NSF 14-547 I-Corps

• Entrepreneur Lead and proposal writer: SDNatics: Big Data Analytics of Software Defined Networks to Understand, Predict and Protect Critical Computer Networks.
• Award number: NSF #1530989
• Amount: $50,000.00

For details, visit my Courses page:

• Courses page

Courses I have taught (am teaching) at Elizabethtown College:

• CS 113 (NPS core): The Power and Beauty of Programming (in Python)
• CS 121: Computer Science I (Python)
• CS 122: Computer Science II (Java)
• CS/EGR 222: Systems Programming (C)
• CS 250: Foundations of AI and Data Science (formerly DS 200)
• CS 350: From Data Mining to Deep Learning (formerly DS 300)
• CS 354: Big Data (formerly DS 420)
• DS 400/495: Data Science Capstone
• CS 363: Computer Security
• CS 364: Network Security
• CS 400/495: Projects in Computing
• EGR 401: Senior Project in Engineering I
• EGR 402: Senior Project in Engineering II

Courses I taught (or guest-lectured) at University of Massachusetts Lowell:

• EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
• EECE.7110 Special Topics: Heterogeneous Computing (now EECE.6540)
• EECE.3170 Microprocessors Systems Design I
• EECE.5520 Microprocessor Systems II & Embedded Systems

Merit Award in Teaching and Advising - May 2021

• Elizabethtown College. Only three faculty members in the whole college received this award.

Merit Award in Scholarship and Professional Activity - May 2020

• Elizabethtown College.

Outstanding Graduate Student - May 2016

• Francis College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

ACM ANCS 2016 Travel Award - Sep. 2016

• For travel expenses on attending ACM Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems Conference (ANCS).
• Amount: $750.00

IEEE NAS 2015 Travel Award - Aug. 2015

• For travel expenses on attending IEEE Networking, Architecture, and Storage Conference (NAS).
• Amount: $850.00

GENI Travel Award - 2014

• For travel expenses on attending GENI Engineering Conference.
• Amount: $1,500.00