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Guide and mentor research students/assistants. Prepare lesson plans and conduct lectures on IT infrastructure and security and competitive cyber defense for 2 classes; research new instructional material and create course content tailored to meet the educational needs of all the students. Proactively participate in the research process by preparing grant proposals, identifying emerging issues, and acquiring research funds. Serve in committees responsible for directing and providing external services for organizing academic conferences and reviewing research papers for publication.Perform evidence-based studies by collecting and assessing data on subjects including secure software-defined networking to support resilient systems, trustworthy endpoint agent designs, and novel solutions for building resilient systems. Deployed effective techniques such as graph analysis and data provenance to ideate and develop system architectures to provide end-to-end safety against emerging threats for embedded, cloud, and enterprise systems.Led and provided strategic support to the students conducting research on penetration testing exercises on a clone of the manufacturing system; evaluated findings, created a hypothesis, and presented the results to the program sponsor for review.Leveraged expertise to integrate new cloud virtualization and containers within the existing curriculum. Facilitated MS, Undergraduate, and Ph.D. students in recognizing their potential and developing professional skills needed for surviving the cut-throat competition across leading industries; guided students on their projects on an individual basis. Counseled students on career development and selection; created a new research lab for students from diverse levels including Ph.D., undergraduate, and master's levels on resilient systems research studies within the university premises.

Conducted in-depth procedural analysis to determine escalated issues and propose effective solutions and build prototypes based on end-user requirements; ensured adherence of all processes to the standards of the Department of Defense. Conducted research on numerous topics and created manuscripts/research papers for academic conferences. Conceptualized and designed the entire security architecture for a mobile satellite communications terminal. Served on a key project related to determining and developing an inventive security architecture based on Linux-based virtualization and the Trusted Platform Module to meet all the security and information assurance requirements and ensure system reliability for a funding entity.Developed a program for maintaining the data integrity for robust decision-making by deploying data provenance consisting of an analytic framework into target applications; the system alerted end-users for all kinds of escalated data integrity issues. Orchestrated and created scalable plans that were used to create an effective lightweight data provenance collection system for all areas requiring information assurance accreditation; deployed the system into the IT infrastructure of the company. Held authority as a technical advisor for the Department of Defense; leveraged subject matter expertise to review numerous research proposals, assess planned and ongoing programs and deliver strategic oversight on future program investments.Consulted with the research sponsors to determine their requirements and address queries pertaining to program/project requests; conducted staff meetings to discuss and draft research sponsorship documents. Directed and mentored interns and research students in all areas associated with conceptualizing and creating new and existing research programs; utilized cutting-edge technology to design and create software to be used for research projects.