Student Advising, Mentoring, Training, and Outreach Activities
I enjoy research and teaching immensely and had the privilege of working with bright and enthusiastic minds with diverse backgrounds and origins. Currently, in Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL), I work with the following postdoctoral researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students. I even welcome some high school students in my lab. At FIU, I have directly trained more than 66 students (10 PhDs, 14 MS, 34 undergraduate, and 1 high school students) and 4 Postdocs. My students received 19 prestigious awards under my supervision at different venues/events and all of my students were hired.
If you are interested in working with me, please read this note and send me an email with your CV, describing briefly your background and research interests.
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Postdoctoral Researchers (4)
- Dr. Abbas Acar (Fall 2021 - Present)
- Dr. Ahmet Aris (Fall 2019 - Present)
- Dr. Nazli Tekin (Fall 2021 - Fall 2022)
- Dr. Hidayet Aksu (Fall 2015 - Summer 2018)
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Ph.D. Students (10)
- Yassine Mekdad (Spring 2023 - Present), Area: UAV Security
- Derin Cayir (Spring 2023 - Present), Area: AR/VR Security
- Harun Oz (Fall 2021 - Present), Area: Ransomware, Web security
- Carlo Mazzocca, (Spring 2023 - Present), Area: Security and Privacy
- A K M Iqtidar Newaz (Fall 2018 - Present), Area: Medical Security
- Luis Puche (Spring 2018 - Fall 2021), Area: Enterprise IoT Security
- Leonardo Babun (Spring 2016 - Spring 2020), Area: IoT Security and Privacy
- Abbas Acar (Fall 2015 - Spring 2020), Area: IoT Security and Privacy, IoT Authentication
- Amit Sikder (Fall 2015 - Summer 2020), Area: IoT Security and Privacy, Side-Channels
- Enes Erdin (Fall 2016 - Summer 2020), Area: Bitcoin Security
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M.S. Students (14)
- Andrea Martinez, Summer 2022 - Present, Area: Privacy of Smart Things
- Esteban Luques (Summer 2023 - Present)
- Eleonara Mancini(Fall 2022 - Spring 2023), Area: Privacy of Healthcare Systems
- Ege Tekiner, Summer 2020 - Summer 2021, Area: Blockchain
- Javier Franco, Spring 2021-Summer 2022, Area: Honeynets, SDN Security
- Genevieve Liberte, Spring 2020 - Fall 2021, Area: IoT Security and Privacy
- Faraz Naseem (Fall 2018 - Summer 2020), Area: Ransomware, Malware
- Kyle Denney, Fall 2017 - Summer 2019, Area: Insider Threats
- Cengiz Kaygusuz (Fall 2017 - Summer 2019), Area: Smart-grid Security
- Burak Yesilyurt (Fall 2016 - Summer 2018), Area: IoT Security
- Lucas Ryan (Fall 2018 - Fall 2019), Area: IoT Security
- Arian Suarez (Spring 2017), Area: IoT Security
- Mike Alan (Fall 2015 - Summer 2016), Area: IoT Security
- Bharath Nuthakki (Spring 2016)
- Abdul Qahir Nawabi (Spring 2016)
- Allan Shaji Manamel (Spring 2016)
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Undergraduate Students (34)
- Danay Rumbaut (Fall 2022 - Present )
- Andy Carvajal (Spring 2022 - Present )
- Alejandro Perez (Summer 2022 - Summer 2023)
- Naor Vidal (Spring 2022 - Present )
- Haiyun Deng (Spring 2022 - Present )
- Esteban Luques (Spring 2022 - Spring 2023)
- David Langus (Fall 2021 - Summer 2022)
- Shrenik Bhansali (Summer 2021, Summer 2022 - NSF REU Project)
- Andrea Martinez (Spring 2022 - Summer 2022 )
- Paulina Acosta (Spring 2022 - Summer 2022 )
- Ifiok Dan-Abia (Spring 2022 - Summer 2022 )
- Analia Camarda (Spring 2022)
- Claire Macdonald (Summer 2022 - NSF REU Project)
- Abel Mateo (Summer 2022 - NSF REU Project)
- Esmeralda Iyescas (Summer 2021 - NSF REU Project)
- Javier Franco (Spring 2019 - Fall 2020 )
- Olivia Voler (Summer 2019 - NSF REU Project)
- Nandini Sivakumar (Summer 2019 - NSF REU Project)
- Billy Jang (Summer 2018 - NSF REU Project)
- Mathias Rosner Ortiz (Summer 2018 - NSF REU Project)
- Leandro Lopez (Summer 2018 - Undergraduate Researcher)
- Nadezhda Bzhilyanskaya (Summer 2017 - NSF REU Project)
- Genevieve Napper (Summer 2017 - NSF REU Project)
- David Gabay (Summer 2017 - NSF REU Project)
- Francesca Callejas (Summer 2017 - Summer Intern)
- Kyle Denney (Summer 2015, Summer 2016 - NSF REU Project)
- Vickie Christie Victor (Summer 2016 - NSF REU Project)
- Eric Stutzman (Summer 2016 - NSF REU Project)
- Danielle Kritz (Summer 2016 - NSF REU Project)
- Ben Graham (Summer 2016 - NSF REU Project)
- Robert W. Breckenridge (Summer 2015 - NSF REU Project)
- Michael Cash (Summer 2015 - FIU McNair Program)
- Saurav Das (Summer 2015 - NSF REU Project)
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High School Students (Summer Internship)
- Anurag Akkiraju (Summer 2017, Summer 2018), Area: IoT Security
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Before FIU, I also trained, supervised, and tutored many students as a member of the Communications Systems Center and Communications Assurance and Performance Group in the School of ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology (Fall 2011-Spring 2013).
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I also was affiliated with the the Opportunity Research Scholar(ORS) Program in the School of ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I worked with many undergraduates in that program.
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Outreach and community service
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IoT Workshop at Somerset Academy Prep - K5, January 2018: Delivered a workshop to educate the teachers and elementary school students in Somerset Preparatory Academy about the burgeoning IoT topics.
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Volunteer Judge in the South Florida Region Finals of Future City Competition: Served as a judge in the South Florida Region Finals of the Future City Competition, a national engineering competition, among the middle schools, where middle school students in South the state of FL competed against each other with their future city designs (Spring 2015).
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Volunteer Referee in Georgia’s First Lego League 2007 Competitions: Refereed in the FIRST Lego League Robotic competitions, where elementary and secondary school children in the state of Georgia competed against each other with their robots over certain missions (Spring 2008).
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Tutor for Computer Engineering/Science Undergraduate Students: Tutored/helped undergraduate students in the Office of Minority Education Department(OMED) at Georgia Institute of Technology in the following courses: ECE 2030 Intro to Computer Engineering, ECE 3055 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, ECE 3076 Computer Communications, CS 2130 Languages & Translation (Spring 2006).
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