I am looking for self-motivated PhD students to join my research group. If you are interested to work on challenging systems problems, please feel free to apply to our PhD programs (ECE or CS) at Howard University.

What's New!

• Technical Program Co-Chairs, The 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications ( WiMob 2024), Paris, France, 9 - 11 October, 2024 

• Received $90 million DoD research contract to establish the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy (RITA) - a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the US Department of Defense 

• Dr. Rawat delivered an invited talk on "Artificial Intelligence Meets Tactical Autonomy: Challenges and Perspectives" at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (IEEE CogMI 2022) on December 16, 2022.

• Dr. Rawat was invited to deliver a keynote on "Tactical Autonomy: Status, Challenge and Perspectives" at IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM Workshop), November 28, 2022.

• Dr. Rawat was  invited to a "Roundtable Discussion with DoD, Industry, Academia and Congress on the Future of Defense Autonomy – Technologies & Policies to Support the Warfighter," October 28, 2022.

• We received $5 million funds from Mastercard Inc. to work on Data Science and Cybersecurity for financial services in January 2022.

• I am one of the Co-PIs for $15 million grant (Howard part out of ~$90 million) funded by NIH for AIM-AHEAD grant, August 2021. 

• Serving as an Advisory Board Member for MID (Mobility Innovation District)

• We received $7.5 million research funding for DoD Center of Excellence in AI/ML from DoD in August 2020.

• We received $300,000 research gift funds from Microsoft Corp. in 2021/2022 to support integrated cybersecurity and AI/ML for Internet of Things.

• We received $300,000 research gift funds from VMware in 2022 to support next generation wireless communications and networking research.

• We received $300,000 research gift funds from Meta/Facebook in 2022 to support  integrated cybersecurity and AI/ML for Internet of Things.

• We received $300,000 research gift funds from Meta/Facebook in 2022 to support  integrated cybersecurity and AI/ML for Internet of Things.

• We received $100,000 research gift funds from PayPal in 2021 to support  cybersecurity for Internet of Things.

• We received $3.75 million research funding for our collaborative project for "Artificial Intelligence Driven Cybermanufacturing of Quantum Material Architectures"  from National Science Foundation (NSF) in August 2020. (with USC and Harvard)

• We received $300k research funding for the project for "Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity"  from SaTC Program of National Science Foundation (NSF) in July 2020.

• We received $450k research funding for cybersecurity research and education from National Security Agency (NSA) in June 2020.

• Dr. Rawat was invited to give a Keynote on  "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Emerging Systems and Applications: The Triumph and Tribulation" at The 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (MLIS2020), October 25-28, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea

• Dr. Rawat was invited to give a Keynote on "Blockchain Technology: Emerging Applications and Use Cases for Smart Systems"  at The 5th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence 2020 South Korea, Aug 13, 2020.

• Dr. Rawat will be giving a tutorial on "Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security for 5G and Beyond" at 2020 IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF’20), 10-12 September 2020.

• Dr. Rawat was invited to serve as a Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2021, 10-13 May 2021, Vancouver, Canada.

• Dr. Rawat was early promoted to a full professor.

• Dr. Rawat served as a TPC Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshop on 5G and Beyond Wireless Security (IEEE Wireless-Sec 2020), 7-11 December 2020, Taipei, Taiwan

• We received $3  million research funds to support the collaborative research on "Data-driven Cybersecurity Analytics, Forensics and Protection (DCAFP)" by patterning with two other institutions from DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in September 2019.

• Dr. Rawat was invited to give a Keynote on at IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Workshop (BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software Defined Networking in Smart Communities) on Blockchain: Emerging Applications and Use Cases for Smart Communities, July 6, 2020.

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Enabled Reconfigurable Wireless Networks CFP, Deadline October 1, 2020.

• Guest Editor, Special issue on Deep Neuro-Fuzzy Analytics for Intelligent Big Data Processing in Smart Ecosystems, Neural Computing and Applications

• TPC Co-Chair,  The IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IEEE IRI 2020), August 11 - 13, 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

• Distinguished Member of the 2020 INFOCOM Technical Program Committee of the IEEE INFOCOM 2020   

• Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2020 Technical Program Committee, 2019.

• General Chair, Eighth International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC'20),  Chennai, India, October 14-17, 2020.

• Track Chair for the Selected Areas in Communications-TI-Track for IEEE ICC 2020, 7-11 June 2020, Dublin, Ireland.

• Demo Co-Chair for IEEE CCNC 2020, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 10-13 January 2020, Las Vegas, USA.

• Workshop Co-Chair for IEEE 5G Wireless Security(5GSec), 9-13 Dec. 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA.

• Publication Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2019, 29 April - 2 May 2019, Paris, France.

• TPC Vice Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2018, 15-19 April 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA

• We received $1 million research funding to support the research on "Security Engineering for Resilient Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems" from National Science Foundation (NSF) in June 2018.

• We received funding to support the research on "FastChain: Light Weight Blockchain Technology for IoBT" from US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and ODU in November 2018.

• We received funding to support the research on "Security Engineering with Distributed Machine Learning for Adversarial Resiliency" from Intel Inc. in June 2018.

• Dr. Rawat was invited to give a Keynote on "Security and Privacy in Mobile Networked Systems" at IEEE MobiSec 2018 on April 16, 2018 in  Honolulu, HI, USA.

• Dr. Rawat received Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award in 2017 and $1.2 million research funding to support the research on "Security Engineering for Resilient Networked Critical Infrastructure" from US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in August 2017.

• Dr. Rawat received NSF CAREER Award and $400k research funding to support the research on "CAREER: Leveraging Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security" from National Science Foundation (NSF) in February 2016. Received $16k supplement research funding from NSF in March 2017.

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