Research

My current research is in the following areas:

• Machine Learning:  reinforcement learning, distributed learning
• Artificial Intelligence: multi-agent systems, game theory, trustworthy AI
• Security:  AI security, adversarial machine learning, moving target defense
• Networks:  optimization, approximation algorithms, 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.
• Principal Investigator, SaTC: CORE: Small: Towards Robust Moving Target Defense: A Game Theoretic and Learning Approach, National Science Foundation, Aug. 2018 to July 2022.
• 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.
• Principal Investigator, RCS: Towards Optimal Timing in Cyber Defense: A Game Theoretic and Learning Approach, Louisiana Board of Regents, June 2017 to June 2019.

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