Prof. Danda B. Rawat
Howard University, Washington, DC
Research Team
Students I supervise and have supervised can be found at:
Research Center 1: Howard University Data Science and Cybersecurity Center (DSC2)
Research Center 2: DoD Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (CoE-AIML)
Research Lab: Cybersecurity and Wireless Networking Innovation (CWiNs) Lab
Research Staff
Desta Haileselassie Hagos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Sunitha Safavat, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2023 - present
Hassan Elalami, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Pushpita Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Shola Odeyomi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, April 2022 - Aug 2022
Eric Muhati, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021 - 2022
Ahmad Suliman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Project Manager), 2020 - 2021
Babajide Salau, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2020 - 2021
Candace Sledge, Project Manager/Coordinator, Jan 2021 - Oct. 2021
Current Graduate (PhD/MS) Students (advisee/co-advisee)
Mr. Ashish Adhikari, PhD Student since Aug 2018
Mr. Abdullah Almutairi, PhD Student since 2018
Dr. Atul Rawal, PhD, Since 2021
Mr. Utsab Khakurel, PhD Student Since 2021
Mr. Adrien Njanko, PhD Student Since 2019
Ms. Asma Alfardus, PhD Student Since 2018
Mr. Ahmed Alghamdi, PhD Student Since 2018
Mr. Mohammed Al-Alshaqi, PhD Student Since 2019
Mr. Nasser Alsabilah, PhD Student Since Spring 2018
Mr. Ismail Yesir, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Joed Ngangmeni, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Sanjeev Roka, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Cesa Salaam, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Manish Bhurtel, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Jose Ruiz Mejia, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Myracle Jarmon-Moore, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Gloria Mollah, PhD Student Since Fall 2022
M. Nwosu, PhD Student Since Fall 2022
Oluwajuwon Fawole, PhD Student Since Fall 2023
Tian Chong, PhD Student Since Fall 2022
to be updated/added.. Sorry for my laziness.....................
Alumni (PhD Level)
James McCoy, PhD, May 2024, Chief Data Officer at U.S. Census Bureau, USA
Salomon Satche, PhD, May 2024, District Director at Federal Communications Commission (FCC), USA
Aashma Uprety, PhD, May 2024, Assistant Professor, Wilkes University, PA, USA
Yuba R. Siwakoti, PhD, May 2024, Tenure Track Assistant Professor, MU, USA
Earl Tankard Jr., PhD, May 2024, MSFT, USA
DeMarcus Edwards, PhD, May 2024, Applied ML Research, USA
Amani Alzahrani, PhD, May 2024, SAU, SA
Tahani Baabdullah, PhD, May 2024, Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, SA
Jessica Whitaker, PhD, December 2023, Postdoc Fellow at CADSA, HU, USA
Ghada Abdelmoumin, PhD, December 2023, Professor of Information Technology at NOVA CC, USA
Neji Mensi, PhD, May 2023, Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, FL, USA
Hassan Karim, PhD, May 2023, Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co., USA
Vijay Chaudhary, PhD, May 2023, Lecturer at Howard University, USA
Bimal Ghimire, PhD, May 2023, Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA USA
Sunitha Safavat, PhD, Dec 2022, Postdoc at Howard University, USA
Reham Alsabet, PhD, December 2023, SA
Maram Alsharif, PhD May 2024, QA/SA.
Abdulaziz Alali, PhD, Dec 2023, Postdoc Fellow at University of Nevada, USA
Felix Olowononi, PhD, May 2022, Tenure-Track Assist. Prof., Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA
Ghaida Alorini, PhD, May 2022, Senior Research Associate, KPGM, SA
Amani Alshaikh, PhD, May 2022, Technical Support Specialist, Millennium DC, USA
Acklyn Murray PhD, December 2021, System Engineer, Northrop Grumman, USA
Abdulhamid Adebayo, PhD, May 2020, Research Staff, IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Ronald Doku, PhD, May 2020, enior Data Scientist, Oracle Corp., CA, USA
Abdullah Alshammari, PhD, May 2020, Assist. Prof., University of Hafr AlBatin, Head of Cybersecurity Innovation, R&D @ NEOM Authority
Naveen Naik Sapavath, PhD, December 2020, Postdoc, University of California (UC) Davis, CA, USA.
Guy Lingani, PhD, May 2020, CEA IT Head @ HU, DC, USA
Eric Muhati, PhD, Graduated in Aug 2021, Teaching Assist. Prof., Oregon State University, USA
Bassma Saleh, PhD, May 2020, Assistant Prof, King Abdulaziz University, SA
Geremew Begna, PhD, May 2019, Northrop Grumman, USA
E. Olumide Malomo, PhD, Aug. 2018, Associate Professor at Virginia State University, USA
Dema Saad Alorini, PhD, Dec. 2018, KPMG Saudi Arabia, Assistant Prof, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, SA
Alumni (MS Level)
Akhil Mohammad, MS, Graduated in May 2022
Mr. Joshua Hector, MS, Graduated in May 2021, Joined Cisco (Systems), Inc, CA
Ms. Yvonne M David, Graduated in May 2021, Joined a Company, MD
Mr. DeMarcus Edwards, MS, Graduated in May 2020, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Utsab Khakurel, MS, Graduated in December 2019, Employer: now PhD student at Howard University
Mr. Abdullah Alshammari, MS, Graduated in May 2018, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Reham Alsabet, MS, Graduated in May 2018, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Yousef Aalsaud, MS, Graduated in December 2020, Joined Howard University for PhD
Ms. Hanan Alshammari. MS Student graduated in 2020, Employer: unknown
Ms. Taylor White, ME, Graduated in May 2018Employer: Intel Corp.
R. Grodi, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016, Employer: Aurora Flight Sciences
N. Sharma, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016 Employer: Palo-Alto Firewall for Network Security
T. Amin, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016 Employer: UT-Dallas PhD Student
Swetha Reddy, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016Employer: Avion Networks
N. Sterling Holcomb, Graduated with MS in 2018(GSU Alumni)
B. Chatfield, Graduated with MS in 2018at United States Air Force
I. Cushman, Graduated with MS in 2018at VanKirk Electric
to be updated..
Undergraduate Students
To be added