Research

My current research is in the following areas:

• Artificial Intelligence: safety, alignment, cooperative AI
• Machine Learning: reinforcement learning, adversarial learning
• Security: AI security, advanced persistent threats
• Networks: algorithms, optimization, mechanism design

Grants

• Principal Investigator, CAREER: Learning to Secure Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning Systems: Advanced Attacks and Robust Defenses, National Science Foundation, June 2022 to May 2027. [project website]
• Principal Investigator, SaTC: CORE: Small: Towards Robust Moving Target Defense: A Game Theoretic and Learning Approach, National Science Foundation, Aug. 2018 to July 2022. [project website]
• Principal Investigator (Collaborative PI: Parth H. Pathak at GMU), NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Reliable 60 GHz WLANs through Coordination: Measurement, Modeling and Optimization, National Science Foundation, Oct. 2018 to Sep. 2022. [project website]
• Principal Investigator, RCS: Towards Optimal Timing in Cyber Defense: A Game Theoretic and Learning Approach, Louisiana Board of Regents, June 2017 to June 2019. [project website]

Useful links

Advice on PhD Research and Academic Career:

• You and Your Research by Dr. Richard Hamming
• PhD Research: Elements of Excellence by Prof. Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University

Advice on Academic Writing:

• Mathematical Writing by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts
• The Science of Scientific Writing by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan
• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White