Wireless Sensor Ad-Hoc Networks: Node placement for Connectivity/Survivability; Energy Harvesting, Sensors designs and development; Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Communication.
Smart Grid: Secure, Resilient, and Scalable Network and Communication Architecture design.
Future Internet: Scalable and Holistic Protocol design for users privacy & security and efficient system utilization.
Social Networks: Anonymity in Social Graph Structures, Security from Sybil Attacks, Use of Social Networks for improving Human Communication.
High Performance Computing: Expanding on one-sided communication primitives and scaling them for exascale High Performance Computing.
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Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science (08/2003 - 08/2009) Advisor:Professor Guoliang Xue Department of Computer Science and Engineering Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ
M.Sc. in Information Systems and Physics (08/98 - 07/03) Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS) Rajasthan, India