College of Engineering and Computing
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Cybersecurity Program

Secure & Private Intelligent Systems Lab

April 2026 Award

Thrilled to share that our senior students—Morgan Dininger, Akanksha Dabas, Drishya Pradhan, and Audrey Meadows—won first place at the CSE Senior Design Expo!

I had the pleasure of mentoring this outstanding team. This marks the second time a team I’ve mentored has earned first place.

2026 CSE Senior Design Expo winning team
November 2025 Talk

I was invited by the Data Science team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital to deliver a research talk titled "From Data to Models: Advancing Privacy through Differential Privacy."

July 2025 Event

The CyberDefender Summer Scholar Program was successfully hosted at Miami University, and it was an exceptional and productive week.

We had a fantastic group of students who dove into topics like ethical hacking, cyber defense, and digital forensics—and they had a blast doing it. One of the highlights was our visit to US Bank’s Cyber Fusion Center, where students got a real-world look at how professionals protect critical systems every day.

It was exciting to see students so engaged, asking thoughtful questions, and genuinely enjoying learning about cybersecurity. A huge thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!

CyberDefender Summer Scholar Program activity CyberDefender Summer Scholar Program activity 2
June 2025 Conference

Glad to attend the 2025 NICE Conference & Expo, and the NIST RAMPS workshop.

2025 NICE Conference & Expo presentation
May 2025 Symposium

I’m honored to have been nominated to present my research at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)’s Computing Futures Symposium.

May 2025 Award

Thrilled to share that our senior students — Liam McGuckin, Joseph Brocato, Jack McMaken, and Sriram Ranganathan — won 1st place at the CSE Senior Design Expo!

CSE Senior Design Expo winning team CSE Senior Design Expo winning team mug

I had the pleasure of co-mentoring this outstanding team alongside Dr. Xianglong Feng. Guiding them through this journey was incredibly rewarding and a true highlight of the semester.

Special thanks to Professor Stahr for all the support — and yes, I love the mug!

Congratulations again to the team — this is just the beginning!

November 2024 Panel

Invited to serve as a Panelist at NSF.

August 2024 Publication

Paper accepted: “Curse to Blessing: Leveraging Model Inversion Attacks to Detect Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning” (IEEE IPCCC 2024).

July 2024 Publication

Paper accepted: “Reducing Latency in MEC Networks with Short-Packet Communications” (IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology).

May 2024 Publication

Paper accepted: “Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Based on Blockchain” (IEEE WASA 2024).

November 2023 Panel

Invited to serve as a Panelist at NSF.

October 2023 Publication

Our paper entitled “On the Performance of Uplink NOMA Short-packet Communication System” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

August 2023 Publication

Paper accepted: “Adaptive Edge-Level Personalization on Hierarchical Federated Learning” (IEEE IPCCC 2023).

July 2023 Publication

Paper accepted: “Alliance Makes Difference? Maximizing Social Welfare in Cross-Silo Federated Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology).

April 2023 Grant

Awarded RSA Grant: Privacy-Preserving and Robust Federated Learning for IoT Systems at Miami University (PI).

April 2023 Publication

Paper accepted: “DP2-Pub: Differentially Private High-Dimensional Data Publication with Invariant Post Randomization” (IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering).

December 2022 Honor

I am so glad that I was elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.

IEEE Senior Member Certificate

News Archive

2022

  • December 2022: I am honored to be invited to give a research talk at Saint Joseph’s University (SJU).
  • October 2022: I was invited to serve as a Panelist at NSF.
  • August 2022: Started working as an assistant professor at Miami University.
  • June 2022: I served as a co-Guest Editor of “Sensors: Special Issue \Advances in Sensing, Imaging and Computing for Autonomous Driving”.
  • June 2022: I was invited to be a PC member of KDD Time-series Workshop (MILETS 2022).
  • May 2022: Our paper entitled “Differentially Private Data Publication with Multi-level Data Utility” has been accepted by ELSEVIER High-Confidence Computing.
  • May 2022: Our paper entitled “Strategic Signaling for Utility Control in Audit Games” has been accepted by ELSEVIER Computers & Security.
  • Jan 2022: Our paper entitled “Social Welfare Maximization in Cross-Siso Federated Learning” has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2022.

    • 2021

    • September: I will serve as the committee member of “Cyber Security Advisor Committee” at UTRGV.
    • May: Our paper accepted into IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems “Structure-Attribute Based Social Network De-Anonymization with Spectral Graph Partitioning”.
    • April: Our paper accepted into IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering “Differential Privacy and Its Applications in Social Network Analysis: A Survey”.