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• Led the R&D team with 50+ scientists and engineers (~30 PhDs). Successfully grow the team from 5 to 50+. Developed technological vision and strategy, ensuring relevant technology trends are recognized and integrated into the roadmap. Coached, guided, mentored, and promoted employees to leadership positions.• Responsibility: Direct research direction, Conduct Research, Proposal teaming and development, Program building and management, Product innovation identification and development, Customer engagement and presentations. • Led research direction in the broad areas of wireless ad hoc/sensor/tactical networks, 5G systems, distributed computing, ML/DL, Big data analysis, network/system/information security, and cyber analytics. Led the team in opportunity identification, proposal strategy development, proposal writing, and proposal review. Identified potential investment and collaboration opportunities across the sciences, fostered partnerships with universities, research institutions, and industry partners.• Led product development following agile product development process. Designed software interface, developed algorithms, and engaged customers/stakeholders. Developed 2 product lines on embedded AI for signal intelligence and cyber threat intelligence. • Managed a large number of projects for Air Force, Army, Navy, DARPA, DoE, DHS. Drive projects from conception through completion. Administering division direct and indirect budgets with zero cost overruns and on-time deliverables. SELECTED R&D projects o NSC 5G Telemedicineo Threat Characterization with Cyber Threat Intelligenceo ML based Threat Detectiono Supply Chain Risk Assessment using Deep Learningo Blockchain enhancement for Tactical Systemo Medical data sharing in Tactical Networks

• As a research scientist at different levels, conduct research and development in general areas of Wireless Networks and Cyber Security. Focused on broad areas of protocol design and development in wireless ad hoc/sensor/tactical networks, network anomaly/intrusion detection using ML and graph, network security using cryptography, network monitoring and analytics, information trust management, etc. • Authored and co-authored a large number of R&D proposals to various government agencies (Air Force, Army, Navy, DARPA, DoE, DHS, etc.), and successfully won a list of them. served as a PI/Co-PI and led the technical direction in designing and developing solutions, engaged with government sponsors or Program managers to understand requirements and expectations, aligned with company’s commercial interests and broader market needs, and led technical team in successfully executed them and converted to next step funding. • The goal of my research is to improve the state-of-the-art research in these areas and apply new technologies to improve the current practice in the field.SELECTED R&D projects o Trust management for Wireless Sensor Networkso Secure Content Distribution System over Tactical Networkso Hidden node detection in Cognitive radio networks o Adaptive Reconfiguration in Tactical Networkso ML based Intrusion Detection for MANETs

Phd, Wireless Networking

Master Of Science - Ms