About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University in 2016 and a MS in Computer Science from the same place in 2014. Prior to that I completed my undergraduate degree in Statistics from India. Prior to my current position, I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UAH from 2018 and obtained promotion and tenure in 2023, two years earlier than the regular promotion and tenure cycle. Before joining UAH I was the CEO & Chief Scientist at Intelligent Robotics Inc., a non-profit research laboratory working for the United States Department of Defense projects. My research interests are broadly in the field of Machine Learning and AI with applications to Cyber Security, Digital and Mobile Forensics, Radio frequency Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Network Centric Warfare and Assured Communications. I am also interested in Social Network Analysis, Cyber Law (Privacy and Security), Adversarial Machine Learning, real world problems in Computational Geometry, Graph Theory and Optimization. Most of my work have secondary applications in law enforcement and Military. More recently I have recently started working with Quantum Computation and Communication with specific interests in post quantum crypto and quantum machine learning with focus on classical-quantum interaction for obtaining real world speedups. My work has been funded through awards from several federal agencies like NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, National Institute of Justice (under the Department of Justice programs) and has been featured many times in state and national media (both electronic and print). I received the UAH college of science Research Excellence Award in Spring 2022. In the past I have received multiple awards for teaching and academic excellence from Florida State University and University of Kalyani.

I am the director of the AI & Remote Sensing Laboratory at UAH and I also run the Data Science and Cyber Security Lab at UAH. Currently, our lab has more than eighteen funded students working on a variety of topics of interest to NASA and the US Department of Defense.