Projects

Funded Projects

PI, "Fuzzing the Physical World to Identify Environmental Threats to AI-Based Autonomous Systems", supported by Google from Sep. 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025. (This research has collaborated with Alvaro A. Cardenas at UC Santa Cruz.
co-PI, "SaTC-EDU: Improving computer forensic curricula through hands-on hardware and software training and practical experience processing evidence from active criminal cases," supported by NSF, August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2026
PI, "REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience for Women in Machine Learning-based Cybersecurity," supported by NSF, April 1, 2023 - March 31, 2026
PI/co-PI, “National Intelligence Community,” at Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence funded by the Office for the Director of National Intelligence, 09/2020 - 08/2024.
Senior Personnel for the DoE project ($5M), "Increasing Hispanic Student Success in STEM" at SJSU supported by the Department of Education (DoE). (Other Partner Institutes: San José City College, Evergreen Valley College, and Gavilan College), August 2021 – August 2026.
Senior Personnel, “ADVANCE Partnership: Kindling Inter-university Networks for Diverse (KIND) Engineering Faculty Advancement in the California State University System” supported by NSF, 08/11/21 – 08/31/21 (1.25M)
PI, “Undergraduate Research” supported by NSF, 03/2020 - 08/2020.
PI, “IoT Security Education” supported by College of Engineering, San Jose State University, 05/2018 - 12/2020.
PI, "i-Care: An Intelligent Real-time Health Monitoring System for Firefighters, " funded by Red Line Safety, 11/2018 - May/2019.
Lead PI, “SaTC: Enhancing Security Education through Transiting Research on Security in Emerging Network Technologies,” funded by NSF, NSF DGE Award #1723804, 09/2017 – 08/2020.
Co-PI, “EAGER: Creating a Community Infrastructure for Interoperable Emergency Connectivity”, NSF Award ID: 1637371, 08/15/16-12/31/18.
IoT Security Education Project, supported by College of Engineering at SJSU, 09/2018 – 08/2020
Kordestani Endowed Chair (Research Professor), supported by College of Engineering at SJSU, 01/2016 – 12/2017
Senior Personnel, U.S. Army Research Office Summer Grant for High School Research Apprenticeship Program (HSAP), Summer 2017
PI, “SDN/NFV Security,” supported by Arista Networks, Inc. in CA ($100,000), 01/2016-12/2017
PI, “Software-defined Storage,” supported by Nexenta Systems, Inc. in CA ($50,000), 01/2016 – 12/2016
PI, “Data Privacy Protection in Internet of Things (IoT),” granted by GKeS Inc., 01/2016 – 12/2016
Faculty Mini Grant ($10,000) from College of Engineering at SJSU, 01/2016 – 12/2016
Faculty mentor, Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship (Supported by NSF Award ID: 1458794, Serve as a mentor.), 02/2015 – 01/2019
SJSU RSCA(Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity) for Undergraduate Research, 07/2014 – 06/2017
Research Grant from TCL Lab. ($100,000), 02/2014 – 05/2015
California State University RSCA(Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity) Grant ($10,000 in total), 2014, 2015
Amazon Education Grant, USA ($6,000), Fall 2013

Past Project Experiences

Enhancing Security Education through Transiting Research on Security in Emerging Network Technologies (NSF SaTC Award #1723804), 08/15/16-08/31/19
Creating a Community Infrastructure for Interoperable Emergency Connectivity by using SDN (NSF Award ID: 1637371), 08/15/16-12/31/18
“SDN/NFV Security,” supported by Arista Networks, Inc., 08/15/16-07/31/18
“dAPP development” with IBM, 09/2018 – 05/2019
“Data-driven NFV” with VMware, 09/2017-05/2018
“Software-defined Storage,” supported by Nexenta Systems Inc., 01/2016 – 12/2016
PI, “Data Privacy Protection in Internet of Things (IoT),” granted by GKeS Inc., 01/2016 – 12/2016
Interactive Application Development for Cisco Devices with Cisco Inc.Real-time Switch Management System, 01/2016 – 12/2016
Scalable and Efficient Encryption Techniques for Terabytes of Storage with INTUIT Inc., 09/2014 – 05/2015
Development of Trustworthy Smart Grid Networks against DDoS attack at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 09/2014 – 05/2015
Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales vis Forensic Analysis, Models of Isolation, and Learning of Internetworked Anomalies (ADAMS FAMILIA) supported by DARPA at Columbia University, 08/2012 -05/2013
The Modus Operandi Project (Malware Analysis/Detection), funded by NSF at North Carolina State University, 01/2012 – 12/2012
The Footfall Project (Traceback Techonology), funded by DoD, USA ARMY Research at North Carolina State University, 08/2008 – 12/2010
Cyber Attack Correspondence Management System, at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), 05/2005 – 12/2007
Development of Embedded Lightweight Cryptography Processing Modules based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), funded by ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) at KAIST, 2/2002 – 09/2003